Barack Obama

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• US, China pledge to fight climate change

  US President Barack Obama and China's Hu Jintao yesterday pledged to apply their joint political might to the world's toughest problems, but friction was evident on Tibet, economics and Iran.

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• Obama presses freedoms in China

  US President Barack Obama Monday pushed for an unshackled Internet and expanded political freedoms, seeking to get around China's media curbs with a webcast town hall event in booming Shanghai.

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• Obama lawyer quits amid Guantanamo setbacks

  President Barack Obama's top lawyer Greg Craig formally resigned yesterday in the highest-level White House shake-up to date, amid a struggle to close the Guantanamo Bay prison camp by early 2010.

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• Obama wins as House approves healthcare bill

  The US House of Representatives has approved the broadest overhaul of US health care in four decades, handing President Barack Obama a hard-fought victory for his top domestic priority.

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• Obama reminds US public of diversity, urges patience

  US President Barack Obama yesterday said the training designed to keep US forces safe abroad prevented further deaths and ended the rampage at Fort Hood.

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Latest News From Around The World

• Times Online

  Barack Obama finalises Afghanistan troop surge

  Barack Obama is expected to announce his long-delayed plans for a troop surge in Afghanistan next week with a promise of between 3,000 and 7,000 extra troops from Nato allies — including Britain, so as to stop this looking like America’s war.

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• New York Daily News

  Obama: Asia trip may create jobs, open market for American goods

  President Barack Obama's eight-day trip to Asia produced no tangible wins for the United States, though he is citing talks with Asian allies that he says could help create thousands of job and open new markets for American goods in the future.

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• Times Online

  Barack Obama dream fades as China visit fails to bring change

  Gazing serenely from the Great Wall of China last week, President Barack Obama appeared to be making the most of one of the supreme perks of White House occupancy — a private guided tour of Asia’s most spectacular tourist destination.

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• San Francisco Chronicle

  Sheryl Crow takes up cause of wild horses in West

  Sheryl Crow is joining others in calling on the federal government to halt roundups of wild horses in the West, branding them as inhumane and unnecessary. The Grammy Award-winning singer has asked President Barack Obama and Interior Secretary Ken Sal

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• Christopher Dickey: Shadowland (Newsweek)

  How Barack Obama Is Like Ronald Reagan

  For inspiration, Obama looks to Reagan.

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