Washington: Adding to the woes of thousands of people still reeling from Superstorm Sandy’s blow, another significant storm hit already-ravaged New York and New Jersey states bringing in high winds, storm surge and snow in some areas.
The storm, termed as the Nor’easter, brought down tree limbs and electrical wires, and utilities in New York and [...]
Washington: Despite Barack Obama winning a second term as President of the US, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton is all set to quit and make way for Susan Rice, the present US ambassador to the United Nations.
As per media reports, Thursday, Hillary is not keen to continue and plans to quit at the end of [...]
Washington: In an attempt to recover from a disappointing presidential debate, President Barack Obama blasted his Republican challenger for not being “the real Mitt Romney” by contradicting his own beliefs.
In campaign appearances after the debate, Obama said the Romney he met on the stage on Wednesday night was not the same Romney he knew.
“When I [...]
Washington: Influential BJP leader and Madhya Pradesh Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan has said the party would announce its prime ministerial candidate at an appropriate time as he ruled out any differences in the party on the issue.
Responding to questions, Chouhan said that the name of prime ministerial candidate would be announced at an appropriate [...]
Washington: US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton on Thursday vowed that the US would not rest until it probes the attack on its consulate in Benghazi and tracks down those who killed “our people”, but cautioned against jumping to any conclusion.
Four Americans including the US Ambassador to Libya were killed when the US Consulate in [...]
Washington: A new book says President Barack Obama hoped to put Osama bin Laden on trial if he had surrendered during a US raid.
In a book on the raid that killed bin Laden, author Mark Bowden quotes Obama as saying he thought he could make a strong political argument for giving bin Laden the full [...]
Washington: Undeterred by the recent spurt in insiders attacks in Afghanistan, NATO has said Taliban will miscalculate the situation if they think their situation will be better by the end of 2014, because they will be faced with a very strong and capable Afghan security force.
“They will not be in a stronger position. When we [...]
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 [...]
Washington: Ahead of the first of the three-presidential debates this month, Barack Obama, the incumbent and his Republican challenger Mitt Romney are virtually tied, a series of latest opinion poll has revealed.
The results of the opinion poll come less than 50 hours before the crucial first of the three presidential debates between Obama and Romney. [...]
Washington: The White House has said that it has experienced a “spear phishing attack against an unclassified network” but asserted that there was never any impact or attempted breach of any classified system.
“This was a spear phishing attack against an unclassified network. These types of attacks are not infrequent and we have mitigation measures in [...]
Washington: The US on Thursday slapped fresh sanctions on three leaders of Lebanese militant group Hezbollah for their alleged role in aiding the Syrian government in its crackdown on opposition forces, the Wall Street Journal reported.
The US Treasury formally charged Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah, and two other members of the organisation — Mustafa Badr Al-Din [...]
Washington, Jerusalem: In a highly unusual rebuff to a close ally as tensions escalated over how to deal with Iran’s nuclear program, the White House said on Tuesday President Barack Obama would not meet Benjamin Netanyahu during the Israeli prime minister’s U.S. visit later this month.
The apparent snub, coupled with Netanyahu’s sharpened demands for a [...]
Washington: The Obama campaign has hit back at an anti-Obama film by an Indian-American conservative author that has rocked the box office since last month’s Republican National convention in Tampa, Florida.
In a new blog post on the campaign’s Truth Team website, the campaign calls Mumbai-born Dinesh D’Souza’s documentary “2016: Obama’s America”, purporting to show what [...]
Washington: A key US lawmaker has said that Pakistan is not a friend of the United States, while alleging that instead it is a “partner” of terrorist who murdered fellow Americans.
“The continued incarceration of Dr (Shakeel) Afridi by the Pakistani government should reaffirm to all Americans that Pakistan is not our friend but instead is [...]
Washington: As Indian-American governor Bobby Jindal’s hurricane stricken state of Louisiana grappled with the devastation, President Barack Obama surveyed a hard-hit area on the eve of the Democratic national convention in North Carolina.
Surveying the devastation wrought by hurricane Issac in St John the Baptist Parish, about 30 miles west of New Orleans, the state’s largest [...]