Washington - US President Barack Obama called on legislators to limit the number of pet projects for their own districts that are routinely included in spending bills, but refused to completely oppose the unpopular practice known as earmarks.
A renewed debate over the merits of earmarks has been swirling in Washington over the past few weeks as Congress debated a 410-billion- dollar budget for the remainder of the 2009 fiscal year, which ends in September.
Washington - The United States will push for aggressive action to halt the global economic slide at an international financial summit next month, President Barack Obama said Wednesday, emphasizing the interconnectedness of the global economy and again warning against protectionist moves.
Ahead of April's Group of 20 (G20) gathering of the world's leading economies, Obama acknowledged that developing countries were being "hard hit" by the fallout from an economic crisis that largely began in the United States.
Tel Aviv - President Barack Obama will not cut the billions of dollars in military aid promised to Israel, a senior US administration official said Wednesday.
The 30 billion dollars in aid promised to Israel over the next decade will not be be harmed by the world financial crisis, the official told Israel Radio. He spoke on condition of anonymity.
The Obama Administration however expects the next Israeli government of Prime Minister-designate Benjamin Netanyahu to continue peace negotiations with the Palestinians, he said.
Washington - President Barack Obama said reforming the US education system was critical to the long-term health of the country's economy as he outlined his reform plans in a policy speech Tuesday.
Obama, whose time has mostly been taken up with a deepening recession since he entered office in January, warned that suffering standards of education could not be ignored and threatened the United States' global standing over the long haul.
Moscow - Russian President Dmitry Medvedev on Tuesday hailed as "entirely positive" his impression of US President Barak Obama ahead of the two leaders' meeting on the sidelines of the upcoming G20 summit in London on April 1-2.
"The signals we are receiving, and that I am personally receiving, from the US president are entirely positive," Medvedev was quoted by news agency Interfax as saying in a meeting with foreign experts from a commission on bilateral relations.
London, Mar 10 : Hollywood actor Michael J. Fox has applauded American president Barack Obama for taking a wise decision of lifting the ban from stem-cell research.
Fox, who has been battling the Parkinson's disease since 1998, is a strong advocate of embryonic stem cell studies and its research.
The `Frightener' actor founded the Michael J. Fox Foundation in 2000, which has since become the largest private funder of stem cell Parkinson's research in America.
Washington - US President Barack Obama called on legislators to limit the number of pet projects for their own districts that are routinely included in spending bills, but refused to completely oppose the unpopular practice known as earmarks.
Washington - The United States will push for aggressive action to halt the global economic slide at an international financial summit next month, President Barack Obama said Wednesday, emphasizing the interconnectedness of the global economy and again warning against protectionist moves.
Tel Aviv - President Barack Obama will not cut the billions of dollars in military aid promised to Israel, a senior US administration official said Wednesday.
Washington - President Barack Obama said reforming the US education system was critical to the long-term health of the country's economy as he outlined his reform plans in a policy speech Tuesday.
Moscow - Russian President Dmitry Medvedev on Tuesday hailed as "entirely positive" his impression of US President Barak Obama ahead of the two leaders' meeting on the sidelines of the upcoming G20 summit in London on April 1-2.
London, Mar 10 : Hollywood actor Michael J. Fox has applauded American president Barack Obama for taking a wise decision of lifting the ban from stem-cell research.
