Indian prime minister makes state visit to Washington
CNN - 19 minutes agoPresident Obama will welcome Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh for an official state visit Tuesday.
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President Obama will welcome Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh for an official state visit Tuesday.
The aim is to persuade Taliban foot soldiers to put down arms in exchange for jobs and protection from militants. The drive will be modeled on the 'Sons of Iraq' initiative that helped calm Iraq. The Afghan government and the U.S. military have begun a fledgling drive to lure Taliban foot soldiers away from the battlefield by offering them job opportunities and protection, diplomats and military ...
The guest list for Tuesday's gala remains a secret, but it should solidify who is considered a VIP in the Obama White House. The dinner honors India's prime minister. What's the hottest ticket in the nation's capital? An engraved invitation to Tuesday's White House state dinner, the first hosted by President Obama.
Obama highlights science education initiatives Monday, presents rights award to Zimbabwe group
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Talking with the Taliban
Iranian opposition leader Mirhossein Mousavi said Sunday the reform movement would not be cowed by the hardline government's harsh methods as riot police prevented a demonstration by moderates taking place.
If you rolled every disaster movie into one spectacular package, you would wind up with something close to 2012 , Roland Emmerich's latest apocalyptic fantasy.
WASHINGTON (AP) — Nuclear impasses with Iran and North Korea are the dominant issues for Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton on her trip to Europe and Asia, which begins with a stopover in Germany to commemorate the 20th anniversary of the Berlin Wall’s fall.
The Obama administration appears to have adopted a more pragmatic approach to the overthrow of the government in Honduras, and Sen. Jim DeMint , R-S.C., played a key role bringing that about.
WASHINGTON -- Should President Obama decide to send 40,000 additional American troops to Afghanistan, the most ambitious plan under consideration at the White House, the military would have enormous flexibility to deploy as many as 15,000 troops to the Taliban center of gravity in the south, 5,000 to the critical eastern border with Pakistan and 10,000 as trainers for the Afghan security forces.
For every pendant sold, TOMS will give away a pair of shoes to a child in need.
The hoopla over former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin’s memoir is the latest sign that the madness, which has dominated American political life for most of the last three decades, has returned – and may be on its way to a political restoration in 2010 and beyond.
To historian Doris Kearns Goodwin, there is no one whose leadership has more relevance today than Abraham Lincoln.