Tag: President Barack Obama

• Monday, January 11th 2016 - 13:29 UTC

  Guns are our shared responsibility

  

  By Barack Obama - The epidemic of gun violence in our country is a crisis. Gun deaths and injuries constitute one of the greatest threats to public health and to the safety of the American people. Every year, more than 30,000 Americans have their lives cut short by guns. Suicides.

• Wednesday, January 6th 2016 - 11:49 UTC

  Emotional Obama calls on citizens to support gun control and defeat the rifle lobby: Republicans furious

  

  An emotional President Barack Obama – at times teary, at others impassioned and angry – urged ordinary Americans on Tuesday to rise up and defeat the well-organized gun lobby in a struggle to cut the carnage of 30,000 killed by gunfire annually in the United States. He accused the gun lobby of holding Congress hostage but called for voters to fight back to so “they cannot hold America hostage.”

• Saturday, December 19th 2015 - 04:11 UTC

  United States lifts 40-year ban on exports of crude oil

  

  The United States has approved a measure to lift the 40-year ban on crude oil exports. The move is part of a US$1.1 trillion spending bill approved by the Senate on Friday that will fund the US government until 2016.

• Friday, December 18th 2015 - 08:09 UTC

  US and Havana deal on regular flights, a boom for tourism, but does Cuba have the infrastructure

  

  United States and Cuba have reached a deal to allow as many as 110 regular airline flights a day, allowing a surge of American travel to Cuba that could eventually flood the island with hundreds of thousands more U.S. visitors a year, officials said Thursday on the anniversary of detente between the foes.

• Wednesday, December 9th 2015 - 08:17 UTC

  Malcorra does not discard a trade agreement with US; Obama could visit Argentina next year

  

  Argentina's foreign minister-designate Susana Malcorra said the FTAA (Free Trade Area Of the Americas) is not a bad word suggesting the country could eventually sign a free trade deal with the United States in the future. She also referred to the Falklands/Malvinas dispute, “an urgent claim” but focusing on things in common and “not differences”.

• Friday, November 27th 2015 - 11:22 UTC

  Obama on the phone with Macri; interest in expanding trade and energy ties

  

  United States President Barack Obama congratulated Argentine president-elect Mauricio Macri on his victory in the runoff in a phone call, according to a brief release from the White House.

• Tuesday, November 17th 2015 - 07:55 UTC

  G20 leaders in Turkey vow to step up the fight against terrorism

  

  In the wake of the Paris horrific coordinated attacks, leaders from the world's top economies ended on Monday a two-day summit at a resort in Turkey with a vow to step up the fight against terrorism. The attacks that left 132 people dead and hundreds of injured shrouded the nine hours of formal talks that were already set to include discussions of terrorism and a refugee crisis stemming from the mass exodus of people from war-torn Syria.

• Saturday, November 14th 2015 - 09:28 UTC

  Night of gun and bombs attacks in Paris: at least 150 people killed

  

  France has declared a national state of emergency and tightened borders after at least 150 people were killed in a night of gun and bomb attacks in Paris. Eighty people were reported killed after gunmen burst into the Bataclan concert hall and took dozens hostage. The siege ended when security forces stormed the building.

• Wednesday, October 28th 2015 - 09:11 UTC

  UN condemns 191-2, US embargo on Cuba, despite restored relations

  

  United States on Tuesday voted against a U.N. resolution condemning its embargo on Cuba, even though President Barack Obama has called on Congress to lift the trade restrictions. The vote was the first since the U.S. and Cuban leaders agreed to restore diplomatic ties last December, and the U.S. had considered taking the unprecedented step of abstaining.

• Friday, October 2nd 2015 - 06:34 UTC

  Frustrated Obama challenges voters to support changes in gun laws

  

  A visibly frustrated President Barack Obama said on Thursday that thoughts and prayers are no longer enough as Americans respond to another deadly school shooting, and he challenged voters wanting to deal with the problem to vote for elected officials who will do something.