Tag: President Barack Obama

• Wednesday, August 17th 2016 - 04:47 UTC

  Fifteen Guantanamo prisoners transferred to the United Arab Emirates

  

  Fifteen prisoners at Guantanamo Bay have been transferred to the United Arab Emirates — the largest single release of the Obama administration. The population of the military prison in Cuba is now down to 61.

• Friday, August 5th 2016 - 20:44 UTC

  Kerry supports Macri free-market policies but calls for patience: things don't change overnight

  

  United States Secretary of State John Kerry urged Argentina to be patient with the slow pace of economic progress and investments under its new government and praised president Mauricio Macri’s free-market stance.

• Friday, August 5th 2016 - 20:18 UTC

  Kerry delivers declassified documents from the Argentine 1976/83 dictatorship

  

  US Secretary of State John Kerry delivered the first batch of Washington’s declassified intelligence documents dating back to the 1976-1983 Argentine dictatorship to President Mauricio Macri, following through on a commitment made by US President Barack Obama during his March visit to Argentina.

• Thursday, June 30th 2016 - 13:32 UTC

  A harmonious NAFTA Tres Amigos Summit pledges to combat protectionism and xenophobia

  

  United States, Canada and Mexico on Wednesday in Ottawa held their first summit after years of aloofness and held themselves up as an example against growing protectionist tendencies around the world.

• Monday, June 13th 2016 - 07:17 UTC

  Obama describes the killings as “an act of terror and an act of hate”

  

  US President Barack Obama has described Sunday morning's gun attack on a gay nightclub in Orlando, Florida, as “an act of terror and an act of hate”. Americans were united in “grief, outrage and resolve to defend our people”, he said.Omar Mateen, 29, killed 50 people and wounded 53 at the Pulse club before being shot dead by police.

• Friday, June 10th 2016 - 07:28 UTC

  Obama endorses Hillary, “I'm with her”; joint campaign to unite Democrats and fight Trump

  

  President Barack Obama endorsed one-time rival Hillary Clinton to be his successor Thursday, signaling to Democrats it is time to unify after a bitter primary campaign and beat Donald Trump.

• Thursday, May 19th 2016 - 06:50 UTC

  Argentina and US reestablish defense links after a nine-year freeze

  

  Argentina and the United States are in the process of reestablishing strong defense links after a hiatus of seven years following this week's visit to the Pentagon of a high profile delegation from the ministry of defense which addressed several issues of mutual interest and common strategies.

• Saturday, April 23rd 2016 - 07:33 UTC

  As your friend, let me say that the EU makes Britain even greater

  

  By Barack Obama, President of the United States - In 1939, President Franklin D Roosevelt offered a toast to King George VI in the White House. “I am persuaded that the greatest single contribution our two countries have been enabled to make to civilisation, and to the welfare of peoples throughout the world,” he said, “is the example we have jointly set by our manner of conducting relations between our two nations.”

• Wednesday, April 6th 2016 - 07:57 UTC

  Obama on Panama Papers: “a lot of it is legal, but that's exactly the problem”

  

  United States President Obama hailed new Treasury Department rules cracking down on corporate tax inversions Tuesday, calling the practice of merging with a foreign company to escape U.S. taxes “one of the most insidious tax loopholes out there.”

• Saturday, March 19th 2016 - 05:41 UTC

  Praise for Obama's decision to declassify documents from the Argentine dictatorship

  

  There is no doubt about the participation of the United States in Argentina’s bloody 1976-1983 military dictatorship, Human Rights Secretary Claudio Avruj said in Buenos Aires following the news that Washington announced it will declassify military and intelligence files from the Dirty War period ahead of Barack Obama’s visit to the country.