Obama visit boosts US-Indonesian ties
US President Barack Obama’s visit to Indonesia next month will give new momentum to already positive relations between Washington and Jakarta. Foreign Minister Marty Natalegawa said Indonesia welcomed Washington’s more consultative approach with the Southeast Asian region since Obama took office a year ago. “The trajectory...
Health bill’s passage is just a start
Senate passage of landmark health-care legislation yesterday took the Democrats’ long drive to enact the biggest social-policy change in decades into its final lap – a high-stakes effort to reconcile differences between House and Senate versions of the bill. With Republicans boycotting, the majority Democrats in the two chambers...
Barack Obama:No vacation until Senate passes health bill
President Barack Obama won’t leave Washington for his Hawaii vacation until the Senate finishes work on the health care overhaul, even if that means staying in town for Christmas Eve. “My attitude is that if they’re making these sacrifices to provide health care to all Americans then the least I can do is to be around and...
Barack Obama arrives at climate talks
American President Barack Obama has arrived in Denmark for the last day of the Copenhagen climate change conference. He will be joined later by 118 world leaders, hoping to come to an agreement on how to deal with our warming planet. Politicians held talks late last night to try and reach a resolution. Officials in Denmark said there was the...
Obama orders US banks to boost lending
President Obama has told US bank executives that it’s time for them to help taxpayers by lending more. In a meeting with Wall Street’s top bank executives, the president laid it on the line that their obligations to taxpayers are far from over. “Now that they’re back on their feet, we expect an extraordinary commitment...
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