Tag: President Barack Obama

• Friday, January 20th 2017 - 23:21 UTC

  “You made me a better president and a better man”, Obama's farewell message

  

  Outgoing President Barack Obama penned an emotional public letter, published Thursday, thanking Americans and encouraging them to participate into “daily acts of citizenship.” Before I leave my note for our 45th president, I wanted to say one final thank you for the honor of serving as your 44th,“ he wrote. ”Because all that I've learned in my time in office, I've learned from you. You made me a better president, and you made me a better man.”

• Wednesday, January 18th 2017 - 10:27 UTC

  Obama commutes sentence of Chelsea Manning, provider of secrets to Wikileaks

  

  President Barack Obama on Tuesday shortened the prison sentence of Chelsea Manning, the former U.S. military intelligence analyst who was responsible for a 2010 leak of classified materials to anti-secrecy group WikiLeaks, the biggest such breach in U.S. history.

• Wednesday, January 11th 2017 - 08:38 UTC

  Obama in his final presidential speech calls to fight for democracy and to forge a new social compact

  

  Change only happens when “ordinary people get involved, get engaged and come together to demand it”, said Barack Obama in his final address to the country and the world as president. “I am asking you to believe. Not in my ability to bring about change – but in yours” Obama outlined in a speech that was both a tearful goodbye and a call to arms.

• Friday, December 16th 2016 - 09:32 UTC

  Obama says Putin was aware of US elections' hacking to favor Trump and anticipates sanctions

  

  Russian President Vladimir Putin supervised his intelligence agencies' hacking of the U.S. presidential election and turned it from a general attempt to discredit American democracy to an effort to help Donald Trump, three U.S. officials said on Thursday.

• Wednesday, December 14th 2016 - 14:54 UTC

  Philippine President Duterte admits avoiding Obama at APEC summit on false pretexts

  

  Philippines President Rodrigo Duterte acknowledged he skipped an evening event at the recent Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) summit in Lima to avoid having to shake hands with Barack Obama. In a speech published Tuesday in a Manila newspaper, Duterte made it clear his absence had not been due to a an upset stomach, but rather a move to avoid an awkward situation.

• Saturday, December 10th 2016 - 10:37 UTC

  Obama orders review of election-campaign cyber-attacks and points to Russia

  

  President Barack Obama has ordered intelligence officials to conduct a broad review of election-season cyber-attacks, including the email hacks that rattled the presidential campaign and raised fresh concerns about Russia’s meddling in U.S. elections, the White House said Friday.

• Tuesday, December 6th 2016 - 08:16 UTC

  On the 75th anniversary, Japan's Abe will honor Pearl Harbour war dead but not apologize

  

  Prime Minister Shinzo Abe will honor war dead but won't apologize when he becomes the first Japanese leader to visit Pearl Harbor this month, a top government spokesman said on Tuesday.The move follows Barack Obama's historic May trip to Hiroshima, the first by a sitting US president, where he spoke of victims' suffering but offered no apology for dropping the world's first nuclear bomb.

• Monday, November 28th 2016 - 07:54 UTC

  Reactions to Fidel Castro's legacy: as controversial as in life

  

  World reactions to the death of the Cuban Revolution leader Fidel Castro who ruled the island for half a century have been as controversial as his life and influence in world affairs. “His revolutionary ideals left few indifferent”, Ban Ki-moon was quoted, and Pope Francis was more diplomatic and referred to the sad news and promised prayers to Cuba's patron Virgin.

• Monday, November 14th 2016 - 07:31 UTC

  Argentina looks forward to a good relation with president Trump, who is no longer “candidate Trump”

  

  Argentina has an excellent relation with the Obama administration and this will be the case with a government led by Trump, pointed out Argentina's cabinet secretary Marcos Peña adding that the first signals from the elected president are positive since he is moderating his electoral campaign speech.

• Friday, November 11th 2016 - 08:17 UTC

  Obama and Trump praise each other and agree on a smooth transition, but tension was evident

  

  After savaging President Barack Obama before and during his campaign, President-elect Donald Trump met him in person for the first time on Thursday and said he had “great respect” for him. President Barack Obama called his conversation with President-elect Trump excellent.