Israel claimed that it has made "progress" in talks with the US aimed at resolving their disagreement over the ongoing construction in West Bank settlements.

"There is still the issue of settlements, what we call construction for the purpose of allowing a normal life for the ...

North Korea's plans to turn its plutonium stock into atomic bomb material would violate the latest UN Security Council resolution, the US warned on Wednesday. Speaking at the first meeting of the IAEA's governing board after North Korea's second nuclear test in May, US representative Geoffrey Pyatt ...

School kids have been told to shed their textbooks from the schoolbags by California Governor, Arnold Schwarzenegger. The kids would go the digital way. The textbooks have been terminated by the ‘terminator’ himself, citing the textbooks to be outdated and expensive.
 
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US President Barack Obama has said that accelerated spending of stimulus packages would create or save 600,000 jobs in the next 100 days. The growth of unemployment is on a 25-year high.

Obama, at a White House meeting with Vice-President Joe Biden, said that there has been a progress after the ...

The relatives of two American journalists sentenced to 12 years of hard labour have pleaded North Korea for some leniency. US President, Barack Obama said the two journos were innocent and should be let free.

The harsh sentence was given by one of the top courts of North Korea on Monday. Laura ...

The US government has committed a major slipup and has made public a highly confidential report on hundreds of the nation’s nuclear sites and programmes, according to the media reports.

The report is of 266 pages and was revealed on Monday in an online newsletter, said The New York Times. ...

The United States will host the next G-20 summit in Pittsburgh on September 24-25, 2009. The summit in Pittsburgh will be attended by the leaders of the 20 biggest economies of the world, including India. The upcoming G-20 summit will discuss about the on-going global economic crisis. The leaders ...

US president Barack Obama has nominated former Democratic congressman Timothy Roemer as his new envoy to India. The 52-year-old distinguished scholar has worked in the blue-ribbon commission which investigated the 9/11 terror attacks on US. He also served on a key committee meant for preventing ...

In a bid to safeguard country's computer network, US President Barack Obama is all set to create a post of 'cyber czar', which will have a member of the National Security Council. The proposed cybersecurity adviser will develop strategy to protect the nation’s government-run and private ...

US president Barack Obama on Friday (May 22) signed Credit Card Reforms Bill into law to protect consumers from predatory fees and shock rate hikes. While signing the legislation at a ceremony in the White House Rose Garden, the US president said it is very easy to get in credit card debt but it's ...

The President of United States, Barack Obama has extended the economic sanction against Syria by saying that the country still supports terrorists group. The sanctions were first imposed on Syria by the Bush administration in 2004. The new move by Obama administration will bar Syria from a series ...

In order to discuss the deteriorating situation in Afghan-Pak region, US President Barack Obama will host a summit with Hamid Karzai and Asif Ali Zardari on Wednesday (May 6). According White House spokesman Robert Gibbs, apart from attending the summit, the presidents of Afghanistan and Pakistan ...

US President Barack Obama has nominated Robert Blake as the assistant secretary of state for South Asian affairs dealing with India and Pakistan. He will take the responsibility from Richard Boucher. Currently Blake is the US ambassador to Sri Lanka. He will hold the new office after getting the ...

In order to coordinate the defence of Pentagon computer networks and improve offensive capabilities in cyber warfare, the United States will constitute a new military command. The new command will help the US military to protect its networks from the attacks of hackers, especially those from ...

US Treasury Secretary Tim Geithner will host a meeting of finance ministers from the world's 20 top economies including India, next week in Washington. Finance Ministers from the G-20 nations will gather to discuss plans to increase oversight of the global financial system. US Treasury Department ...

On Tuesday (7th April), the legislature of Vermont, one of the fifty states of the USA, voted a bill to make same-sex marriage legal. Overriding the governor's veto, the legislature passed a bill that allowed gay couples to marry. The Vermont Senate voted the bill 23-5 and the House of ...

President Barack Obama has appointed Indian American management consultant Anju Bhargava as the member of a faith-based advisory council of the White House. The Faith council is part of the White House Office of Faith Based and Neighbourhood Partnerships. The council includes religious and secular ...

President Barack Obama said on Sunday (5th April) that, the US will pursue Senate ratification of the Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty (CTBT) to bring it into force, a media reported. The CTBT, which bans comprehensive testing of nuclear weapons, was adopted by United Nations General Assembly in 1996. ...

Moving away from previous Bush Administration's policies the United States has decided to run for a seat on the UN Human Rights Council (UNHRC) with the goal of making it a more effective body to promote and protect human rights. The State Department said in a statement yesterday (31st March) that, ...

On Monday (30th March), U.S. President Barack Obama signed sweeping land and water conservation rules into law. The new law sets aside millions of acres as protected areas. The comprehensive measures, which include more than 160 bills, would designate about 2 million acres of parks, rivers, ...

As many as 17 people were killed when a small plane crashed in the U.S. state of Montana on Sunday (22nd March), Mike Fergus a spokesperson from Federal Aviation Administration said. Fergus said over telephone that, the single engine turboprop aircraft crashed about 152 meters short of ...

On Thursday (12th March), the US Senate Finance Committee approved the nomination of former Dallas Mayor, Ron Kirk as U.S. trade representative. The Finance Committee approved the nomination of Kirk by voice vote, which sets the stage for full Senate consideration. US Upper House, Senate's approval ...

US President Barack Obama is all set to sign an executive order on Monday (9th March) lifting restrictions on federal funding for human embryonic stem cell research. With this, the limitation imposed by George W. Bush administration on human embryonic stem cell research would come to an end. Eight ...

US President Barack Obama nominated top emergency response coordinator in Florida, Craig Fugate as chief of the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA). Fugate has been the director of Florida's Division of Emergency Management since 2001. Craig Fugate was largely criticized for his failure to ...

The United States on Wednesday (March 4) announced the launch of mortgage plan to stabilize the housing crisis in the country that happens to be the main cause of recession. Last month, US President Barack Obama announced a $75-plan so that over 9 million homeowners in US could pay off their ...

Bangladesh is likely to get the help of US Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) to probe into last week's border guards' mutiny. According to media reports, FBI will assist Bangladesh to carry out a forensic investigation in the BDR revolt. Earlier the Sheikh Hasina-led Bangladesh government had ...

The Kansas governor Kathleen Sebelius has been nominated by the US President Barack Obama as his Secretary of Health and Human Services. The new secretary is likely to play a vital role in implementing the voluminous health reforms that were announced by the President. Apart from Sebelius, Barack ...

In an effort to save the banking giant Citigroup Inc, the U.S. government will boost its equity stake in the bank to as much as 36 percent. This latest emergency effort will bolster the bank's capital base. This will be the US government's third attempt to prop up Citigroup in the past five months. ...

US President Barack Obama announced on Friday (February 27) that American combat troops in Iraq will be withdrawn by the end of August 2010. While addressing a Marine Corps base, Obama stated that the US combat mission in Iraq will official come to an end after 18 months. However, he added that ...

Veteran diplomat Christopher Hill was appointed as the new US ambassador to Iraq by President Barack Obama on Friday (February 27). Commenting on the appointment of Hill as new envoy to Iraq, Obama said that the diplomat possesses all the skill and shrewdness to represent US in Iraq at this crucial ...