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Obama and aides confront skeptical Congress on Syria strike

YoopyaSep 2, 2013April 7, 20240

(Reuters) – President Barack Obama and his top aides launched a full-scale political offensive on Sunday to persuade a skeptical Congress to approve a military

Obama: Forces conspiring against middle class

YoopyaAug 31, 2013April 14, 20240

WASHINGTON (AP) — President Barack Obama says it won’t be easy to reverse forces that for decades have conspired against working Americans. But he says

Iraq protesters rail against lawmaker pensions

YoopyaAug 31, 2013April 14, 20240

BAGHDAD (AP) — Hundreds of demonstrators took to the streets of Iraqi cities on Saturday to protest lawmakers’ perks despite an intense security crackdown, and

Ghana president says democracy deepened with vote dispute

YoopyaAug 31, 2013April 14, 20240

ACCRA — Ghana President John Dramani Mahama told AFP in an interview Friday after the supreme court upheld his 2012 election victory that the emerging

India convicts youngest Delhi gang rape defendant

YoopyaAug 31, 2013April 14, 20240

NEW DELHI (AP) — An Indian juvenile court on Saturday handed down the first conviction in the fatal gang rape of a young woman on

Romanian prince who died in jail is beatified

YoopyaAug 31, 2013April 14, 20240

BUCHAREST, Romania (AP) — Thousands have gathered on Saturday for the beatification of a Romanian prince who spent decades traveling around the world helping the

Earthquake kills 5 people in southwest China

YoopyaAug 31, 2013April 14, 20240

BEIJING (AP) — An earthquake hit a mountainous area of southwestern China on Saturday, killing at least five people, destroying hundreds of residences and forcing

Putin says would be ‘utter nonsense’ for Assad to use chemical arms

YoopyaAug 31, 2013April 14, 20240

(Reuters) – Russia’s President Vladimir Putin said on Saturday it would be “utter nonsense” for the Syrian government to use chemical weapons when it was

Sixth U.S. ship now in eastern Mediterranean ‘as precaution’

YoopyaAug 31, 2013April 14, 20240

(Reuters) – A sixth U.S. warship is now operating in the eastern Mediterranean, near five U.S. destroyers armed with cruise missiles that could soon be

Weak spending, inflation data point to soft U.S. economy

YoopyaAug 31, 2013April 14, 20240

(Reuters) – U.S. consumer spending barely rose and inflation was tame in July, offering a cautionary note on the economy as the Federal Reserve weighs