Topic: Afghanistan
ROME (Reuters) - House of Representatives Democratic leader Nancy Pelosi was released from a short stay in a hospital on Monday and is resuming her scheduled activities in Italy, spokesman Nadeam Elshami said.Pelosi, who served as Speaker of the House from 2007 ...
The Republican-controlled US House of Representatives voted early on Saturday to cut about $61 billion in government spending, setting the stage for a bruising political battle with Democrats who control the Senate and the White House.The 235-189 partisan-line vote came after a ...
A grueling and already angry US Congress battle over painful spending cuts escalated Friday amid growing concerns that the world's richest country hurtled towards a government shutdown.The US House of Representatives' Republican leaders aimed to wrap up the fight and vote late ...
President Barack Obama on Tuesday faces a US public hungry for jobs, and Republicans eager to oust him, when he delivers his yearly "State of the Union" speech in a tense new era of power-sharing.Obama steps up at 9:00 pm (0200 GMT ...
US President Barack Obama returned to the US capital early on Saturday after a surprise visit to Afghanistan where he assured US troops they were winning the war against the Taliban.A plane carrying the president touched down at Andrews Air Force Base ...
Nato nations have formally agreed to start reducing troop levels in Afghanistan next year and hand over control of security to the Afghans in 2014.. But later a senior Obama administration official said the US has not committed to ending its combat ...
President Barack Obama will meet with Defense Secretary Robert Gates on Tuesday.. Also on Tuesday, the president will award Army Staff Sgt. Salvatore Giunta the Medal of Honor for conspicuous gallantry during combat in Afghanistan in 2007..
President Barack Obama on Tuesday is awarding the Medal of Honor to an Army staff sergeant who placed himself in the line of fire in Afghanistan to save two comrades.. The Army says that on Oct. 25, 2007, Giunta was serving as ...
Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke has been named 2009 Person of the Year . According to Time magazine's senior writer Michael Grunwald , "His creative leadership helped ensure that 2009 was a period of weak recovery rather than catastrophic depression , and ...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Republican Senator Lindsey Graham, who met with Afghan President Hamid Karzai during a recent visit, said on Sunday he was "stunned" at Karzai's comments to a Washington newspaper, which appeared at odds with U.S. military strategy.In an interview with ...
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