Barack Obama

Taliban tells Obama there are no “moderates” in its ranks

Taliban tells Obama there are no “moderates” in its ranksKabul, Mar. 10: The Taliban has squarely rejected US President Barack Obama’s call for negotiating with its ‘moderate’ arm to bring the ‘War on terror’ in the region to end.

A self styled spokesperson of the outfit, Qari Mohammad Yousuf termed Obama’s tactics of adopting a strategy similar to that of Iraq, as ‘illogical’.

“This does not require any response or reaction from us as this is illogical," The News quoted Yousuf in a media report, as saying.

Obama's Wikipedia Page distances him from both Wright and Ayers

Obama's Wikipedia Page distances him from both Wright and AyersWashington, Mar. 10: President Barack Obama''s Wikipedia page has been edited to remove any mention of his links to former Weather Underground terrorist William Ayers and Reverend Jeremiah Wright, though pages for Ayers and Wright are heavily peppered with references to the president, including subsections on both pages that detail their past affiliations with him.

Obama leads nominations for 2009's British Book Awards

Obama leads nominations for 2009's British Book AwardsLondon, Mar 10: US president Barack Obama has landed himself in the top spot of the nominations for this year''''s British Book Awards after he was shortlisted for both author and biography of the year.

Obama’s political book, The Audacity of Hope, and his life story, Dreams from My Father, became UK bestsellers while he was running for office in 2008, reports the BBC.

The president had written ‘Dreams from My Father’, even before he thought of entering politics and the book had been published in 1995.

Obama could use economic crisis to get America back on track

Obama shares Bush''s instinct to convert a calamity into an opportunityWashington, Mar. 10: President Barack Obama could do what his predecessor George Bush did to get America back on track as the only superpower of the world.

According to Fox News, though Obama is ideologically worlds apart from Bush, both have the political instinct to convert a calamity into an opportunity.

Obama lifts ban on embryonic stem cell funding

Obama lifts ban on embryonic stem cell fundingWashington  - US President Barack Obama on Monday reversed an eight-year long government block on federal funding for embryonic stem cell research, a promising but controversial science, and rejected what he called a "false choice" between science and morals.

Obama signed an executive order that overturned former president George W Bush's policy limiting research on the cells, which was put in place during his first year in office back in 2001. Fulfilling a 2008 campaign promise, Obama said he would "vigorously support" scientists who pursue stem cell research.

Obama’s call for working with a “moderate” Taliban will fail: Critics

Obama’s call for working with a “moderate” Taliban will fail: CriticsLondon, Mar 9: Leading Afghanistan opposition figures have opposed US President Barack Obama’s call for “moderate” Taliban members to be brought into the mainstream, and warned that co-opting fighters would fail as long as Hamid Karzai’s government is weak and corrupt.

Obama floated the idea of appealing to Taliban adherents who are alienated by the extremism of al-Qaida fighters and might be prepared to switch sides after repeating a successful strategy in Iraq, The Guardian reported.

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