US President Barack Obama has announced a series of educational and business exchanges in an effort to improve ties between the US and the Muslim world. Mr Obama unveiled his plans to Muslim entrepreneurs from 50 countries at a summit hosted in Washington. “Real change comes from the bottom up, and that is why we are here,” he...
US President Obama met and prayed with the Rev. Billy Graham for the first time Sunday – days after his administration dumped the ailing evangelist’s son from a national prayer program. During the half-hour visit, the first by a President to Graham’s home in Montreat, N.C., the 91-year-old “Thunderer” gave Bibles...
U.S. President Barack Obama met with Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan in Washington. The meeting lasted for 45 minutes on the sidelines of Nuclear Security Summit. The focal point of the talks was Armenia-Turkey normalization process. According to the diplomatic source, officials discussed the roadmap related to the Armenia-Turkey...
US President Barack Obama will continue to press China for a “market-based” valuation for its currency – even after the first indications that the yuan may be again allowed to freely float emerged. Obama will discuss the Chinese currency’s two-year dollar-fix with Hu Jintao, China’s President, when the two men meet next Monday. Obama’s...
US President Barack Obama and Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu met Tuesday in an unusual pair of low-profile meetings at the White House. In a break with custom that seemed linked to the crisis complicating US-Israeli relations, reporters were not invited to see them shake hands and begin their talks. In a sign of the tensions between the...