Washington: Chinese-owned Ralls Corp. has sued US President Barack Obama for blocking a wind farm project, claiming that his order gave no detailed explanation.
In a complaint filed Monday in the US District Court here, Ralls Corp. said Obama acted in “an unlawful and unauthorized manner” in issuing the order.
He gave no “reasoned explanation” for his [...]
Charlotte (North Carolina): US President Barack Obama has appointed Indian-American neurosurgeon from California, Anand Veeravagu, as one among the 15 White House Fellows.
Veeravagu, a neurosurgeon in training at Stanford University, most recently served as Chief Neurosurgery Resident at the Palo Alto Veterans Affairs Hospital caring for soldiers returning from Afghanistan with traumatic brain and spinal [...]
Washington: US President Barack Obama was on Sunday briefed by his counter-terrorism advisor John Brennan on the situation arising out of the attack on worshipers at a Gurudwara in Wisconsin.
President Obama was briefed by Brennan and the White House is seized of the matter, US officials said.
Meanwhile, various groups have condemned the shooting calling it [...]
Washington: US President Barack Obama has exuded confidence to win against his Republican rival Mitt Romney in upcoming Presidential polls, though conceding that it be a closely contested one.
“If the election were held today, I think it would be close but I think we’d win. And we now have 99 days left. If I can [...]
Washington: US President Barack Obama has warned Syria’s Assad regime that it would be held “accountable” if it uses its stockpile of chemical weapons.
“Given the regime’s stockpiles of chemical weapons, we will continue to make it clear to Assad and those around him that the world is watching, and that they will be held accountable [...]
Aurora: US President Barack Obama on Sunday visited Colorado and met the victims of the Friday shooting at a Denver-area movie theater.
Twelve people were killed and 58 injured as a gunman went on a rampage early Friday during the premiere screening of ‘Dark Knight Rises’, the latest of the Batman series.
Obama held private talks with [...]
Washington: US President Barack Obama on Monday confirmed that US drone aircraft have struck Taliban and Al-Qaeda targets within Pakistan — operations that until now had not been officially acknowledged.
When asked about the use of drones by his administration in a chat with web users on Google+ and YouTube, Obama said “a lot of [...]
Washington: Stepping up his campaign against outsourcing, US President Barack Obama on Wednesday announced a series of measures that would offer incentives to those firms which will create jobs in the country, a move that may also affect companies in India.
“If you’re a business that wants to outsource jobs, you shouldn’t get a tax deduction [...]
New York: Countering allegations that he is “aloof”, US President Barack Obama counted Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and German Chancellor Angela Merkel among leaders with whom he has forged “friendships and bonds of trust”.
“I wasn’t in other administrations, so I didn’t see the interactions between US presidents and various world leaders.”
“But the friendships and the [...]
Washington: A man accused of firing shots at the White House in November has been formally charged with attempting to assassinate US President Barack Obama, according to an indictment unsealed today.
A preliminary psychiatric evaluation in December found Oscar Ortega-Hernandez, 21, competent to stand trial, but federal prosecutors are asking for more extensive tests to ensure [...]
Washington: Expressing his dismay over the continued and “unacceptable” level of violence in Syria, US President Barack Obama has urged the country’s president Bashar al-Assad to step aside.
“Unfortunately, we’re continuing to see unacceptable levels of violence inside that country,” Obama said in his joint press conference with the visiting King Abdullah of Jordan.
The two leaders [...]
Washington: US President Barack Obama has called the Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to discuss the progress in recent Israel-Palestine peace talks as well as the West’s continuing standoff with Iran over its nuclear programme.
As part of their regular communication and cooperation on bilateral and regional issues, Obama yesterday spoke with Netanyahu, the White House [...]
Chicago: US President Barack Obama scooped up hometown campaign cash on Wednesday, promising supporters that change can still come if they work even harder this time around as his potential Republican challenger solidified his standing.
A day after former Massachusetts governor Mitt Romney’s convincing win in New Hampshire’s GOP primary, which established him as the clear [...]
Washington: US President Barack Obama has met Saudi Foreign Minister Prince Saud Al-Faisal in the Oval Office for talks, amid the growing political tensions in the Persian Gulf.
“The President and Prince Saud affirmed the strong partnership between the United States and Saudi Arabia and discussed recent developments on key regional issues of mutual interest,” the [...]
Washington: US President Barack Obama will unveil a revised US military strategy on Thursday designed to reflect fiscal constraints and a greater focus on the potential threat posed by a rising China, officials said.
The plan calls for confronting possible challenges from Iran and China with air and naval power while shifting away from counter-insurgency campaigns [...]