Barack Obama's inauguration on Jerusalem's mind?
NY Daily News (USA) - 6-1-2009
President-elect Obama and Secretary of State-designate Clinton have let President Bush and Secretary of State Rice hold center stage, leaving the Palestinians and Israelis to wonder exactly where U.S. foreign policy will come down after Jan. 20. That uncertainty may have spurred Israel's decision ... |
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Burris Arrives On Capitol Hill To Take Senate Seat
cbs2chicago.com - 6-1-2009
Senate, Roland Burris arrived at the Capitol to take his seat as Illinois' junior senator. On CBS' The Early Show, Burris, who was selected to take President-elect Barack Obama's Senate seat, dismissed his critics, saying his appointment by the scandal-plagued governor, Rod Blagojevich, is valid ... |
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U.S. seeks immediate Gaza ceasefire with conditions
Reuters (USA) - 6-1-2009
State Department said on Tuesday it wanted "an immediate ceasefire" in Gaza but U.S. officials quickly stressed they would not budge from their stance that it must be durable, sustainable and indefinite. The United States had previously steered away from the "immediate ceasefire" language embraced ...
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Sketch: Blitz of Angry Dave heralds start of a long year in politics
Times OnLine (UK) - 6-1-2009
Perhaps he felt media-deprived over the holiday period. Perhaps Gordon Brown's gibe that the Tories are the 'do nothing' party has hit home. Yesterday David Cameron was a 'do something, do angry' leader. I woke up to Dave on the Today programme and he sounded like a man who'd been up since 4am ... |
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Gordon Brown and David Cameron clash over who has best lifeline for savers
Times OnLine (UK) - 6-1-2009
He also pledged to raise pensioners' tax allowance by £2,000. The £4 billion cost of the Tory tax cuts would be met by cutting public spending in all areas other than schools, the NHS, international development and defence. Gordon Brown hinted on Sunday that ministers were looking at ways to help ... |
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Tories offer £4bn tax break for the thrifty
The Independent (UK) - 6-1-2009
The Tory leader tightened his planned squeeze on public spending as he and Gordon Brown highlighted the widening gap between the two main parties on economic policy in rival speeches. With many savers anxious about plummeting interest rates, Mr Cameron called for the abolition of tax on income ... |
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U.S. in store for trillion-dollar deficits, says President-elect Barack Obama
NY Daily News (USA) - 6-1-2009
Obama wants to pump at least $775 billion into the economy in the form of a two-year stimulus spending plan. His economic rescue package will include a $300 billion middle-class tax cut and comes on top of the $800 billion bailout plans for the ailing finance and banking industries and the Big ... |
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Bin Laden thwarted in terrorism goals: official
Reuters (USA) - 6-1-2009
The comments by Dell Dailey, the State Department's counterterrorism coordinator, were among the Bush administration's most confident declarations of progress against bin Laden and his deputy, Ayman al Zawahri. Both men have nonetheless eluded a manhunt since the September 11 attacks on the United ... |
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Rice set to go U.N. to work on Gaza ceasefire
Reuters (USA) - 6-1-2009
Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice will go to the United Nations on Tuesday to help with international efforts to arrange a ceasefire in Gaza, the State Department said. The purpose of her trip is to move forward the international efforts to create a ceasefire in Gaza," said a State Department ... |
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Obama bans earmarks from big economic package
The Seattle Times (USA) - 6-1-2009
President-elect Barack Obama says he will bar pork-barrel projects from the massive economic stimulus bill he wants Congress to pass.. He told reporters at his transition office in Washington that his package will set a "new higher standard of accountability, transparency and oversight. We are ... |
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