Obamas' studio lands documentary Oscar for 'American Factory'
World 10:53 10/02/2020The film examined themes of economic dislocation and clashing cultures in the U.S.
Barack Obama, Ho Chi Minh City Party chief talk Vietnam-U.S. ties
Vietnam News 12:01 10/12/2019They had a meeting in Ho Chi Minh City on Monday afternoon as part of Obama’s business trip
Obama tours glacier to highlight march of climate change
World 09:37 02/09/2015Obama traveled to southern Alaska's Kenai Fjords National Park, where he stood against the backdrop of the vast, but receding glacier, where posts mark the ice's retreat since 1815
Ukrainian forces quit besieged town after rebel assault
World 11:00 19/02/2015The fall of the besieged town of Debaltseve was one of the worst defeats of the war for Ukraine's troops, who proved unable to stop an advance by Moscow-backed rebels fighting for territory the Kremlin calls "New Russia".
Obama chooses Clancy to be Secret Service director
World 09:00 19/02/2015Clancy, who personally helped guard the lives of three U.S. presidents, has been head of the agency on an interim basis for the past four months.
Obama seeks war authorization from Congress to fight Islamic State
World 22:30 11/02/2015According to the text, Obama also wants to repeal the 2002 measure that authorized the Iraq war. But his proposal leaves in place a 2001 authorization, passed shortly after the Sept. 11 attacks, for a campaign against al Qaeda and its affiliates.
Time names Ebola fighters as 'person' of 2014
World 22:00 10/12/2014The hemorrhagic fever mushroomed from an outbreak into an epidemic in Liberia, Guinea and Sierra Leone, and there have been scattered cases in Nigeria, Mali, Spain, Germany and the United States.
Tough road ahead for Obama after Republicans seize U.S. Senate
World 22:00 05/11/2014The Republican rout on Tuesday was wide and deep in what was bound to be seen as a sharp rebuke to Obama, who has lurched from crisis to crisis and whose unpopularity made him unwelcome to Democratic candidates in many contested states
Obama says Russia must stop meddling in Ukraine for ceasefire to work
World 19:00 03/09/2014Obama was speaking in Estonia, one of three ex-Soviet Baltic states bordering Russia that fear separatist rebellion in eastern Ukraine could herald problems for them
Obama expresses deep concern to Putin on Ukraine
World 12:30 02/03/2014The White House said Obama and Putin spoke by phone for 90 minutes, their second phone call in the past eight days over Ukraine, an escalating crisis that is presenting a new challenge to already strained U.S.-Russian relations
Obama, wary of foreign crises, faces East-West standoff in Ukraine
World 09:45 02/03/2014Obama, who has avoided entanglement in global crises where possible and focused on domestic affairs, now finds himself in the midst of the most dangerous East-West standoff since the end of the Cold War.
Senate in spotlight as US on brink of possible default
Economy 21:30 16/10/2013The US economy will sail into uncharted waters and the Treasury will no longer be able to guarantee it will be able to meet its obligations and avert a devastating debt default.
