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The Danish prime minister has told his party he is a candidate for NATO’s top job, a spokeswoman for the party told Danish TV on Friday. Anders Fogh Rasmussen announced his aspirations to the Liberal Party Friday morning, party spokeswoman Inger Stojberg said in an interview posted on Denmark’s TV2 News Web site.
Obama’s remarks came after a woman from Heidelberg, Germany, asked if he ever regretted having run for president. The question yielded a lengthy response from Obama, who is participating in his first overseas trip in office. “That’s a good question,” Obama said at a packed town hall meeting in Strasbourg, France
President Obama on Friday called on Europe and the United States to drop negative attitudes toward each other and said "unprecedented coordination" is needed to confront the global economic crisis. Speaking at a packed town hall meeting in Strasbourg on his first overseas trip as president, Obama said, “I’m confident that we can meet any challenge as long as we are together.” It’s easier to allow “resentments to fester” than “to forge true partnerships,” the president said. “So we must be honest with ourselves.
U.S. President Barack Obama sent a public warning to North Korea Friday, calling on Pyongyang to back off plans to launch what the United States believes to be a missile.
Barack Obama and his wife flew to London together. They have been staying together at Winfield House, the sprawling American ambassadorial residence in Regent’s Park, and are photographed together regularly, boarding and leaving planes and helicopters, walking from cars, meeting with the Queen and assorted world leaders. But they move in completely different worlds
One measure of a summit’s success is the number of participants who attempt to lay claim to its outcome.
Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez says he would be willing to accept prisoners from the Guantanamo Bay detention center, which U.S. President Barack Obama has said he will close, the Venezuelan government said Thursday. Chavez also said he hopes the United States will give Cuba back the land on which the naval base is located, the government said in a news release.
Alleged terrorists held at a U.S. military prison in Afghanistan can challenge their detention in federal court, a U.S.
In case you hadn’t noticed, Washington is in the midst of a revolution. A new president, an economic meltdown. And, in short order, the following solutions proposed and implemented: an extensive bank bailout, a huge plan to salvage the careening housing market, a gargantuan $787 billion economic stimulus package.
The automobile business is great. Just ask someone who’s in it. “People want to buy cars,” says Rod Buscher, CEO of Summit Automotive Partners in Denver, which owns 30 assorted dealerships nationwide.