The world’s media was divided Saturday after the shock award of the Nobel Peace Prize to President Barack Obama, with some calling it a victory for ideals and others condemning it as deeply politicised. The prize-giving committee in Oslo named Obama the winner of the prestigious prize on Friday, hailing his “extraordinary” efforts in international [...]
The U.S. Secret Service is investigating a poll posted on the social networking site Facebook that asks if President Barack Obama should be assassinated. The Huffington Post has a screen shot of the poll. It asks, “Should Obama be killed?” The possible answers are “yes,” “maybe,” “If he cuts my health care” and “no.” “We [...]
Iran’s President, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, has warned U.S. President Barack Obama against pressing Tehran about new revelations that Iran has been constructing a secret uranium-enrichment plant. “If I were Obama’s adviser, I would definitely advise him to refrain making this statement because it is definitely a mistake,” Ahmadinejad told TIME in New York City on Friday. [...]
President Obama has poked fun at claims that racism was behind fierce opposition to his ambitious political agenda, joking that: “I was actually black before the election.” It was the latest attempt by Mr Obama to tone down the debate, after Jimmy Carter, the former US President, commented that much of the conservative fury directed [...]
Al Qaeda leader Usama bin Laden described President Barack Obama as “powerless” to stop the war in Afghanistan, and Americans’ inability to grasp why the Sept. 11 attacks occurred has “cost you a lot without any result whatsoever.” The remarks by the terrorist leader were released two days after the eighth anniversary of the Sept. [...]
Amidst speculation about canceling his trip to New York, President Mahinda Rajapaksa is slotted as the ninth speaker at the 64th sessions of the UN General Assembly, to be held in New York on Sept. 23. According to UN officials, President Mahinda Rajapaksa will address the UN General Assembly on the opening day when US [...]
A man toting an assault rifle was among a dozen protesters carrying weapons while demonstrating outside President Obama’s speech to veterans on Monday, but no laws were broken. It was the second instance in recent days in which weapons have been seen near presidential events. Video from CNN affiliate KNXV shows the man standing with [...]
Media Minister Lakshman Yapa Abeywardena told the media yesterday that according to the International Crisis Group Kumaran Pathmanathan aka KP and his associates based in the US had backed Barack Obama’s presidential election campaign. Minister Abeywardena said that the international community had misunderstood Sri Lanka’s stand on the LTTE’s international activities but the government was [...]
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