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Iran signed a crucial nuclear deal with the USA and five other world powers on November 24, marking it as a significant foreign policy achievement of the Barack Obama Presidency.
India
2013: A CHALLENGING TIME FOR INDIA-US RELATIONS
The year 2013 will be remembered for the challenges it threw up for the ties between the world’s two largest democracies, including a row triggered by the arrest and strip-search of an Indian diplomat in […]
United States
Barack Obama ponders limiting NSA access to phone records
WASHINGTON (TIP): President Barack Obama is expected to rein in spying on foreign leaders and is considering restricting National Security Agency access to Americans’ phone records, according to people familiar with a White House review […]
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Removal of a foreign citizen from a foreign sovereign: the durable injustice
The author who is an eminent attorney pleads for a graceful resolution, with no lasting after-taste of excessive legalities in the tangled case of Indian diplomat Devyani Khobragde. “Nuremberg Laws taught us that law alone […]
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A Two-Year Deal on Spending Reached: Conservative Republicans not happy
WASHINGTON (TIP): A compromise federal budget plan that would remove the threat of a government shutdown for two years won easy approval Thursday, December 12, from the Republicancontrolled U.S. House. The deal worked out by […]
India
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I am not allowed iPhone because of security reasons: Barack Obama
WASHINGTON (TIP): US President Barack Obama used a youth event to promote his signature healthcare plan while ruing that he is not allowed to keep an iPhone because of security reasons, unlike his two daughters […]
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Young Americans unhappy with Barack Obama’s job performance: Poll
BOSTON (TIP): Young Americans are unhappy with virtually every major thing President Barack Obama has done since he was re-elected, but they would still vote for him today, according to the results of a Harvard […]
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Europe
Afghanistan-US reach draft security agreement
KABUL/WASHINGTON (TIP): The United States and Afghanistan on November 20 reached a draft agreement on a crucial security pact, a day before thousands of Afghan elders are set to debate whether to allow US troops […]
Europe
Historic call: UK PM rings up Rouhani
LONDON (TIP): In a historic first, David Cameron on November 19 became the first British PM to call an Iranian president in more than a decade. Cameron spoke to Hassan Rouhani by telephone on Tuesday […]
Europe
Karzai wants US president to acknowledge army’s errors
NEW YORK (TIP): Afghan President Hamid Karzai wants a letter written by US President Barack Obama that will acknowledge military mistakes made during 12-year war in his country in return for allowing American counterterrorism raids […]
India
26/11 ATTACKS / Five years on, Pak’s ‘sham’ trial continues
NEW DELHI (TIP): Exactly a month back when Pakistan Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif met US President Barack Obama in Washington, the first thing the American leader inquired about was the progress in the trial of […]
Europe
Afghanistan-US reach draft security agreement
KABUL/WASHINGTON (TIP): The United States and Afghanistan on November 20 reached a draft agreement on a crucial security pact, a day before thousands of Afghan elders are set to debate whether to allow US troops […]
Europe
Historic call: UK PM rings up Rouhani
LONDON (TIP): In a historic first, David Cameron on November 19 became the first British PM to call an Iranian president in more than a decade. Cameron spoke to Hassan Rouhani by telephone on Tuesday […]
Europe
Karzai wants US president to acknowledge army’s errors
NEW YORK (TIP): Afghan President Hamid Karzai wants a letter written by US President Barack Obama that will acknowledge military mistakes made during 12-year war in his country in return for allowing American counterterrorism raids […]
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Karzai wants US president to acknowledge army’s errors
NEW YORK: Afghan President Hamid Karzai wants a letter written by US President Barack Obama that will acknowledge military mistakes made during 12-year war in his country in return for allowing American counterterrorism raids on […]
Europe
Obama thanks Lakshmi Mittal for investing in America
WASHINGTON (TIP): US President Barack Obama has thanked London-based Indian steel tycoon Lakshmi Mittal for investing in America and creating jobs in the country. “I want to thank your CEO, Lakshmi Mittal, for investing in […]
United States
Obama’s popularity at all-time low: Survey
WASHINGTON (TIP): US President Barack Obama‘s popularity has slumped to an all-time low, with a majority of Americans for the first time believing him to be dishonest and untrustworthy, a new survey showed. The respected […]
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Malia, Malala top influential-teen list
US President Barack Obama‘s elder daughter Malia and Pakistani girls’ education activist Malala Yousafzai have been named among the 16 most influential teens of 2013 by Time magazine. The magazine said Malia, 15, and her […]
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Low Obamacare enrolment figures turns up heat on White House
WASHINGTON (TIP): About 106,000 people signed up for insurance coverage nationally under President Barack Obama‘s healthcare law during October, the government said on Wednesday, a tiny fraction of the millions of people that had been […]