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• White House on the Hot Seat on Counter-Terror Tactics

  25-01-2015 22:24
  
  It was a tall order, given the events of the past week when House Republicans threatened to derail ongoing negotiations about Iran’s development of nuclear technology by promising to pass new and tougher sanctions against Tehran. On Saturday, the terrorist group ISIS apparently beheaded another hostage -- Japanese journalist Haruna Yukawa -- and threatened to do the same to others in its custody, including Yukawa’s colleague, Kenji Goto and an American woman whose identity her family has ask
  
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• 5 Times President Obama Ditched His Shoes Overseas

  25-01-2015 21:18
  
  Today in New Delhi, President Obama spent some time in his socks during a visit to a memorial for Mahatma Gandhi, the father of modern India. When Obama visited Turkey to address its parliament in April 2009 - a speech in which he declared that the U.S. "is not, and will never be, at war with Islam" - he also visited Istanbul's historic Blue Mosque, built between 1609 and 1616, removing his shoes to tour it. One of President Obama's first and still most notable foreign trips
  
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• Republican White House maybes court evangelicals toward 2016

  25-01-2015 17:43
  
  ATLANTA (AP) — Jeb Bush and Mitt Romney have gotten much of the attention in these early days of the Republican race for president, but as they court the party's elite donors in private phone calls and meetings, a group of likely candidates to their right are just as eagerly chasing support among Christian evangelicals and social conservatives.
  
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• Netanyahu defends planned Congress speech as anti-Iran strategy

  25-01-2015 16:21
  
  By Dan Williams JERUSALEM (Reuters) - Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu defended on Sunday a planned speech to the U.S. Congress about Iran, saying he had a moral obligation to speak out on an issue that poses a mortal threat to Israel. His visit to Washington in March has opened up a rift with the White House and has drawn accusations in Israel that Netanyahu is undermining the country's core foreign alliance in an effort to win an election due two weeks after the trip. Briefing his cabine
  
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• Israel's Netanyahu defends US Congress address

  25-01-2015 15:50
  
  Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Sunday defended his decision to accept a controversial invitation to address the US Congress on Iran that has sparked a bitter row with the White House. Netanyahu was unrepentant as he met with ministers at Israel's weekly cabinet session. "In the coming weeks, the world powers are likely to reach a framework agreement with Iran which is likely to let Iran remain a nuclear threshold state, something which will first and foremost endanger the
  
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• 'Aap sab ko mera pyar bhara namaskar', says Prez Obama

  25-01-2015 14:38
  
  New Delhi, Jan. 25 (ANI): U.S. President Barack Obama peppered his joint press interaction with Prime Minister Narendra Modi today with Hindi words, beginning with his greeting, 'Aap sab ko mera pyar bhara namaskar' (My greetings with love). The U.S President, who shared a visibly warm camaraderie with Prime Minister Modi, also thanked the latter for the 'chai pe charcha' (discussions over tea) that the two leaders had on the lawns of Hyderabad House here. We need more of those in the White Hous
  
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• From cold shoulder to hugs: Obama and Modi's unlikely friendship

  25-01-2015 12:55
  
  "They are both rebels with a cause." It's less than a year since the Obama administration ended its cold-shouldering of Modi, who had been a pariah in Washington and other Western capitals for more than a decade. The US was the last Western power to end Modi's isolation which stemmed from an eruption of communal violence in Gujarat, the state on India's west coast which Modi governed until his general election win last May. With relations already soured in late 2013 by t
  
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• Israel's Rivlin in first US visit for UN Holocaust memorial

  25-01-2015 12:20
  
  Israeli President Reuven Rivlin left Sunday on his first official visit to the United States, where he will address a UN session marking 70 years since the end of the Holocaust. His trip comes at a point of high tension between Israel and Washington after Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu accepted a controversial invitation to address a joint session of Congress in early March in a move which was not coordinated with the White House. During the five-day trip, Rivlin will be in New York to addres
  
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• After a bear hug, Obama irons out deals with Modi in India

  25-01-2015 12:11
  
  By Sanjeev Miglani and Douglas Busvine NEW DELHI (Reuters) - In a glow of bonhomie, U.S. President Barack Obama and Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi worked on a series of bilateral agreements at a summit on Sunday that both sides hope will establish an enduring strategic partnership. They ironed out differences over the liability of suppliers to India in the event of a nuclear accident and the United States dropped a demand to be able to track the whereabouts of material supplied to the count
  
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• WHITE HOUSE NOTEBOOK: Obama's presidential 'namaste'

  25-01-2015 11:50
  
  NEW DELHI (AP) — President Barack Obama was so honored to be invited to India's Republic Day celebration that he showed it.
  
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• After a bear hug, Obama gets down to business with Modi in India

  25-01-2015 10:46
  
  By Roberta Rampton and Douglas Busvine NEW DELHI (Reuters) - In a glow of bonhomie, U.S. President Barack Obama and Prime Minister Narendra Modi worked on a series of bilateral agreements at a summit on Sunday that both sides hope will establish an enduring strategic partnership. Signalling his determination to take ties to a higher level, Modi broke with protocol to meet and bear-hug Obama as he landed in New Delhi earlier in the day. It was a remarkable spectacle given that, just a year ago, M
  
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• Obama, Japan's Abe discuss apparent IS execution - White House

  25-01-2015 08:15
  
  NEW DELHI (Reuters) - President Barack Obama phoned Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe on Sunday from New Delhi to offer condolences for the apparent killing of a Japanese citizen by Islamic State militants, the White House said. Obama thanked Abe for the humanitarian aid that Japan has provided to the Middle East region, the White House said in a statement. (Reporting by Roberta Rampton; Editing by John Chalmers)
  
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• Bear hug with Modi gets Obama's India trip off to warm start

  25-01-2015 07:39
  
  By Roberta Rampton and Douglas Busvine NEW DELHI (Reuters) - Signalling his determination to take relations with the United States to a higher level, Prime Minister Narendra Modi broke with protocol to meet and bear-hug U.S. President Barack Obama as he landed in New Delhi on Sunday. Obama's visit is a fresh bid to make India an enduring strategic partner and will nurture his friendship with a prime minister who a year ago was persona non grata in Washington. The White House declined to com
  
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• Baseball-Major League Baseball roundup

  25-01-2015 01:50
  
  From the White House, sports greats and fans everywhere, tributes poured in for "Mr. Cub" Ernie Banks, who died Friday night at the age of 83. The Chicago Cubs honored Banks on the Wrigley Field marquee that said: "ERNIE BANKS, 'MR. CUB' 1931-2015" Banks was known as "Mr. Cub" for his identification with only the major league club he played for during his 19-year career. He won the National League MVP Award in consecutive years, 1958 and 1959. In 2013, Banks was presented with the Presidential M
  
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