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Obama dismisses polls snub
05 Nov 2009, 12:09PM
- Tough anniversary for Obama
- Analysis of US politics
- Republicans eye elections revenge
- Obama expects climate deal at Copenhagen
Is the honeymoon over?
04 Nov 2009, 10:16AM
Today marks one year since Obama swept to power on a promise of change, but it will be just another day for the US leader battling a deep recession and two wars.
MATTHEW HALL
How to fix Afghanistan
One year on, Obama is still sorting through the debris that George W. Bush’s eight-year party left in the White House.
Republican wins New Jersey race
04 Nov 2009, 2:30PM
A Republican challenger has defeated the incumbent Democratic governor of New Jersey in a second electoral blow for President Barack Obama.
Obama's victory speech: transcript
04 Nov 2008, 6:39PM
Read Obama's historic speech to multitudes in Chicago the night he became America's first black president.
US pressures Iran for nuclear meet
04 Nov 2009, 2:45PM
The US and the EU have issued a joint call to Iran to meet its international obligations, as pressure mounted on Tehran to accept a nuclear fuel deal.
- Iran''s supreme leader lashes out at US
- Iran wants review of nuclear fuel deal
- West is still untrustworthy, says Iran
Republicans seize back Virginia
04 Nov 2009, 12:39PM
Republican Bob McDonnell won the Virginia governor's race Tuesday with 63 percent of the vote, US media predicted, seizing back the governorship from the Democratic Party.
- Little fanfare for Obama anniversary
- A year on Obamamania turns to luke warm support
- Republicans eye elections revenge
A year on Obamamania turns to luke warm support
02 Nov 2009, 2:31PM
A year on from a historic election, the spirit of popular goodwill that
yielded America's first black president has retreated to tepid support
for Barack Obama as he presses his change agenda.
- Republicans eye elections revenge
- Obama bemoans criticism of date night
- Obama says he''s skinny but tough
Republicans eye elections revenge
01 Nov 2009, 2:15PM
Republicans are looking to wound President Barack Obama's Democrats in three elections seen as barometers of a vital battle for Congress in 2010.
- Obama to end US ban on HIV visitors
- Obama ''considered Clinton for VP''
- War carnage raises heat on Obama
Obama 'considered Clinton for VP'
30 Oct 2009, 7:50AM
President Barack Obama seriously considered Hillary Rodham Clinton for the vice presidency, but rejected her because he was worried about Bill Clinton.
- Clinton rules out tilt at presidency
- Hillary Clinton likes being president - -at the UN
- Obama, Clinton share meal in New York
Obama stands vigil for war dead
30 Oct 2009, 7:39AM
President Barack Obama has stood vigil at the homecoming of US war dead from Afghanistan as he debates ordering thousands more troops into the battle zone.
- War carnage raises heat on Obama
- Eight more US troops die in Afghanistan
- Obama in quandary over troop boost
Obama expands hate crimes law
29 Oct 2009, 4:23PM
US President Barack Obama has condemned crimes meant not to break only bones 'but to break spirits' as he implemented a landmark hate crimes law.
- War carnage raises heat on Obama
- Obama bemoans criticism of date night
- UN urges end to US embargo on Cuba
I'm skinny but tough: Obama
27 Oct 2009, 12:05PM
President Barack Obama had a message for his political friends and foes - "just because I'm skinny doesn't mean I'm not tough."
Obama faces loneliness of power on Afghanistan
19 Oct 2009, 5:49PM
It comes to every US president -- and now looms relentlessly for Barack Obama: the moment when he must shoulder the lonely duty of his office and take a fateful decision on national security.
Obama in quandary over troop boost
15 Oct 2009, 2:06PM
Obama has huddled with his war council for the fifth time, debating whether to send thousands more troops to Afghanistan to quell a growing conflict.
