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Muhammad Ali death: Obama will not attend memorial
US President Barack Obama will not attend a memorial to the late boxer Muhammad Ali on Friday, the White House says. Ali died last Friday at the age of 74 in hospital in Phoenix, Arizona. World leaders will be among thousands attending Friday's procession and memorial service in Louisville, Kentucky, where Ali was born. The...
Muhammad Ali: Barack Obama says boxing’s ‘Greatest’ shook up world
US President Barack Obama and boxing great George Foreman have led worldwide tributes to Muhammad Ali, who has died at the age of 74. "Ali shook up the world — and the world is better for it," Obama said. Foreman, who was beaten by Ali in the Rumble in the Jungle in 1974, said: "Muhammad Ali made you love...
Obama: Trump ‘doesn’t know much about foreign policy’
President Barack Obama said Donald Trump's suggestion that Japan and South Korea should consider obtaining nuclear weapons demonstrates the Republican presidential front-runner's lack of understanding about foreign policy and the world at large. "The person who made the statements doesn't know much about...
Obama to make historic Hiroshima visit
US President Barack Obama is to visit Hiroshima on Friday, where the US dropped the world's first nuclear bomb. The visit, after the G7 summit, will be the first to the Japanese city by a serving US president. Mr Obama has said he will not be issuing an apology for the nuclear attack, but will honour all those who died in...
Atomic Bomb Survivors To Attend Hiroshima Event For Obama Visit
At least three atomic bomb survivors will attend an event in Hiroshima on Friday when President Barack Obama becomes the first incumbent U.S. leader to visit the site of the world’s first atomic bombing, Japan’s Kyodo news agency reported. Obama has said he will not apologize or address the debate on whether the...
The President is WRONG: Grayling strikes back at Obama’s Remain threat in scorching attack
CHRIS Grayling has taken the Brexit argument to America in a blistering attack on Barack Obama’s EU Support. Speaking in Washington DC, Mr Grayling hit out at the President’s intervention, claiming that “the view from Washington” was not the best way to assess what was in Britain’s best interests....
Obama lifts arms export embargo on Vietnam
HO CHI MINH CITY, Vietnam — President Obama said Monday that the United States' relationship with Vietnam is moving to a "new moment," including an end to the half-century American arms embargo on its former war rival and a host of new business ties between the two nations. "Just a generation ago, we...
Obama in Vietnam: Arms and trade deal on agenda as trip begins
Barack Obama has arrived for the start of his three-day visit to Vietnam, only the third by a sitting US president since the end of the Vietnam War. The trip comes amid warming ties between the countries as the US seeks to build relations with Pacific allies. Vietnam is keen for the US to lift an arms embargo that has been in...
Obama, Bound For Vietnam, Seeks To Turn Old Foe Into New Partner
U.S. President Barack Obama on Sunday headed for his first visit to Vietnam, a trip aimed at sealing the transformation of an old enemy into a new partner to help counter China’s growing assertiveness in the region. Four decades after the Vietnam War, Obama – the first U.S. leader to come of age after a conflict...
White House shooting: Secret Service stops armed man
The Secret Service has shot an armed man outside the White House, according to US officials. Police told ABC News that a man brandished a weapon at a security checkpoint near the building and was shot in the stomach. The White House was briefly placed on lockdown after the shooting on Friday. President Barack Obama was playing...
Obama pushes for more Zika funding in US
President Barack Obama has criticised the US Congress for failing to back his request for a $1.9bn (£1.25bn) fund to combat the spreading Zika virus. He warned that the country could face "bigger problems" in the future. His comments come as the latest figures showed that there were nearly 300 pregnant women in...
US-Nordic Summit Takes on Russian Aggression
President Barack Obama said Friday that an agreement between the U.S. and five Nordic nations to increase cooperation in the face of rising Russian aggression is an effort to ensure that "smaller nations are not bullied by larger nations.” The president hosted the leaders of Sweden, Norway, Denmark, Finland and...