Washington - US President Barack Obama met Saturday with Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva for talks on the global financial crisis and energy issues.
Obama's meeting with Lula at the White House was his third with a foreign leader and first with one from Latin America, signalling the importance with which his administration views the region and its role in pulling the world economy out its downturn.
Brazil so far has been able to weather the bad economy. The two leaders discussed next month's summit of the world's 20 leading economies.
Washington - US President Barack Obama has abandoned holding detainees at Guantanamo Bay as "enemy combatants," and will instead use the authority to do so already provided by Congress and under international law, the US Justice Department said Friday.
In a document filed in federal court, the Justice Department broke with the Bush administration, which argued the president had the sole legal discretion as commander-in-chief to order the detention of captives in the war on terrorism.
Washington, Mar. 13 : US President Barack Obama's Indian American White House chief information officer, Vivek Kundra, has gone on leave until the FBI completes its investigation into the Washington city office he once headed.
Kundra went on leave after federal agents arrested an Indian-American businessman and a Washington DC government official on corruption charges on Thursday and searched the offices of the capital city''s chief technology officer as part of a corruption probe.
Washington, Mar. 13 : Several Pakistani-American organizations have urged President Obama to support their call for an independent judiciary and other constitutional reforms in Pakistan.
Members of Pakistan American National Alliance gathered at Capitol Hill on Wednesday to voice support for the national protest, The Nation reports.
Washington, Mar. 13: Expressing its fears that Iran''s nuclear program is a cover to build atomic weapons, the Obama administration has extended sanctions imposed on that country for one more year.
Tehran claims that it is enriching uranium to produce nuclear energy for civilian purposes.
Citing a continued "unusual and extraordinary threat to U. S. national security," President Obama on Thursday extended sanctions against Iran for one year in a public notice, reports Fox News.
Washington - US President Barack Obama insisted Saturday
Washington - US President Barack Obama met Saturday with Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva for talks on the global financial crisis and energy issues.
Washington - US President Barack Obama has abandoned holding detainees at Guantanamo Bay as "enemy combatants," and will instead use the authority to do so already provided by Congress and under international law, the US Justice Department said Friday.
Washington, Mar. 13 : US President Barack Obama's Indian American White House chief information officer, Vivek Kundra, has gone on leave until the FBI completes its investigation into the Washington city office he once headed.
Washington, Mar. 13 : Several Pakistani-American organizations have urged President Obama to support their call for an independent judiciary and other constitutional reforms in Pakistan.
Washington, Mar. 13: Expressing its fears that Iran''s nuclear program is a cover to build atomic weapons, the Obama administration has extended sanctions imposed on that country for one more year.
