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Reuters via Yahoo! News - Mon Nov 9, 10:36 pm ET
President Barack Obama held unusually low-profile talks with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Monday that failed to provide any sign of progress toward reviving Israeli-Palestinian peace negotiations.
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Bloomberg via Yahoo! News - Mon Nov 9, 10:00 pm ET
Nov. 10 (Bloomberg) -- President Barack Obama intends to discuss freedom of expression, rule of law and Tibet with Chinese President Hu Jintao during their meeting in Beijing next week, a senior White House official said.
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AP via Yahoo! News - Mon Nov 9, 9:41 pm ET
Abortion opponents in the Senate are seeking tough restrictions in the health care overhaul bill, a move that could roil a shaky Democratic effort to pass President Barack Obama's signature issue by year's end.
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EARTHtimes.org - Mon Nov 9, 10:34 pm ET
Hong Kong - T-shirts showing Barack Obama dressed as one of Mao Zedong's Red Guards have been taken off sales racks in China ahead of the US president's visit, a newspaper reported Tuesday. Market stalls and souvenir shops in Beijing have reportedly ...
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AP via Yahoo! News - Mon Nov 9, 9:14 pm ET
The Associated Press has asked a judge to deny a request by the attorneys of street artist Shepard Fairey to withdraw from his copyright battle over the Barack Obama "HOPE" poster.
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AFP via Yahoo! News - Mon Nov 9, 9:02 pm ET
The United States is likely to decide soon to send an envoy to North Korea, the first such mission by President Barack Obama's administration to jumpstart denuclearization talks, an official has said.
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AFP via Yahoo! News - Mon Nov 9, 8:38 pm ET
President Barack Obama hosted Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu Monday for closed-door talks in a tense atmosphere that underscored tensions between the two allies as US efforts to revive Middle East peace talks flounder.
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AP via Yahoo! News - Mon Nov 9, 8:20 pm ET
President Barack Obama said Monday that he'd be willing to attend an international climate summit in Copenhagen next month if it appears a deal is in the offing and his presence there would help clinch it.
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Reuters via Yahoo! News - Mon Nov 9, 7:53 pm ET
President Barack Obama may be in for a nasty surprise when he reaches the final pages of the best-selling book Life of Pi, which he said on Monday he was reading with his 11-year-old daughter Malia.
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AFP via Yahoo! News - Mon Nov 9, 7:29 pm ET
A dispute over the relocation of a key US military base in Japan will not be a "dominant" or "essential" feature of President Barack Obama's visit to Tokyo, a senior US official said Monday.
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AP via Yahoo! News - Mon Nov 9, 7:25 pm ET
The Senate gave President Barack Obama a major victory Monday in his efforts to remake the federal courts, confirming a judge who will tip the political balance on the once-conservative appeals court based in Richmond.
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AFP via Yahoo! News - Mon Nov 9, 6:21 pm ET
President Barack Obama will directly raise human rights with Chinese President Hu Jintao next week, after being criticized for not meeting Tibet's spiritual leader Dalai Lama before visiting Beijing.
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Reuters via Yahoo! News - Mon Nov 9, 6:20 pm ET
President Barack Obama will be at a meeting in Singapore on Sunday also attended by the prime minister of Myanmar, but he does not intend to speak directly with him, an administration official said on Monday.
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AFP via Yahoo! News - Mon Nov 9, 6:02 pm ET
The United States said Monday it would no longer allow its row with Myanmar to hold its ties with Southeast Asia hostage, as President Barack Obama geared up for his debut official visit to the region.
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AFP via Yahoo! News - Mon Nov 9, 5:57 pm ET
Nearly one-quarter of the US Senate asked President Barack Obama on Monday to press Japan on his upcoming visit about parental abductions, saying Tokyo's policies were an anomaly among developed nations.