Israelis and Palestinians had one thing in common Thursday: They hung on every word in President Obama’s wide-ranging speech on U.S.
Obama’s speech draws mixed reviews in Middle East
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Middle East Muslims Like Obama’s Words but Want to See Action
There was plenty of enthusiasm across the Muslim world for President Barack Obama’s Cairo speech Thursday, although much of it was tempered by a withholding of judgment until talk of change is translated into action. And there were mixed feelings about whether policy changes would be forthcoming and on Arab and Muslim responsibility to help bring it about
Who Spends and Who Saves? A Surprising Geographic Breakdown
Americans are spending less; no surprise there.
The 5 Big Health-Care Dilemmas
Max Baucus, the Senate’s point man on health care, sounds supremely confident when he talks about the odds that Congress will pass its most sweeping piece of social legislation since the New Deal. “Meaningful, comprehensive health-care legislation passes this year. That’s a given,” he declares, sipping a bottle of water in his functionally furnished hideaway office just steps from the Senate chamber
Your Move, China
If North Korea has in the past made a habit of annoying China, its only ostensible ally in the world, what must Beijing be thinking now? For most of the past six years, China has been the host and chief promoter of the so-called six-party talks. Their explicit goal: to get North Korea to give up its nuclear-weapons program
What will Obama tell Muslim world? Experts make predictions
President Obama went to Notre Dame, a Catholic university, to do the abortion speech, and to the National Archives to do the Guantanamo speech, so James Zogby hopes when Obama gets to Cairo, Egypt, on Thursday, he’ll do the Middle East speech.
Obama looks to reach the soul of the Muslim world
Winning the hearts and minds of a majority of people is a nearly impossible feat, especially when you’re a politician. And it’s even harder when religion is involved, namely Islam, which some estimates put at 1 billion followers
Egyptians await Obama, saying, ‘It can’t all be rainbows and roses’
Languishing in a Cairo prison last year, a prisoner noticed that every day, the prison staff would clean the adjacent cell, even though there was no one in it. Why, the prisoner asked his guards, did they do it It’s for Barack Obama, they responded.
Former U.S. commander in Iraq calls for truth commission
The former commander of U.S.
El Salvador’s first leftist president inaugurated
Mauricio Funes was inaugurated Monday as El Salvador’s president, promising to work for the nation’s poor and disadvantaged.