WASHINGTON: President Barack Obama accused White House hopefuls of concocting "half-baked" ideas for solving the crisis in Syria, appearing to even dismiss his former Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton's call for a no-fly zone before later clarifying his view of the Democratic front-runner...
It's a plan that allows them to stake out a more aggressive military posture than Obama, while stopping short of the kind of large-scale...
WASHINGTON: US Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton said on Wednesday she does not support the 12-nation Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP), rejecting a central tenet of President Barack Obama’s strategic pivot to Asia...
Clinton, who backed the developing trade pact when she was secretary of state during Obama’s first term, said she was worried it would not do enough to crack down on currency manipulation or protect...
PHILADELPHIA: President Barack Obama on Wednesday implored Americans to help Hillary Clinton beat Donald Trump, warning the 2016 race was not just about politics, but the nature of US democracy...
Speaking before a rapt Democratic convention in Philadelphia, Obama praised Clinton’s calibre and readiness for the White House while painting her Republican rival as a know-nothing authoritarian...
WASHINGTON: President Barack Obama endorsed fellow Democrat Hillary Clinton for president on Thursday, saying he did not think there had ever been a nominee so qualified for the White House...
I am fired up, and I cannot wait to get out there and campaign for Hillary,” Obama said in a video released by the Clinton campaign...
WASHINGTON: President Barack Obama formally endorsed Hillary Clinton’s bid for the White House on Thursday, praising his former secretary of state’s experience and grit, and urging Democrats to unite behind her in the fight against Republicans in the fall...
That’s why I know Hillary will be so good at it,” Obama said in a web video circulated by the Clinton campaign...
The US Secret Service says agents have intercepted packages containing “possible explosive devices” addressed to former President Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton...
The agency says neither Clinton nor Obama received the packages, and neither was at risk of receiving them because of screening procedures...
WASHINGTON: Democratic presidential front-runner Joe Biden is shaking up his campaign leadership by naming a veteran of Barack Obama’s and Hillary Clinton’s White House bids as his campaign manager...
She was a deputy campaign manager for Obama’s reelection campaign in 2012...
WASHINGTON: The race for the White House, which entered its final stage this week, is shaping up as a contest between two highly unpopular candidates, Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump...
When Mr Trump, a billionaire with an ego bigger than his wealth, entered the race, he was dismissed by most political analysts as an outsider with no roots in the Republican Party, whose nomination he sought...
A tweet by former president Barack Obama about the violence in Charlottesville has become the most liked message in the history of Twitter, the company said on Wednesday...
“No one is born hating another person because of the color of his skin or his background or his religion,” Obama tweeted on Sunday, following deadly clashes in the Virginia city between neo-Nazi sympathizers and counter-protesters...
WASHINGTON: Former US president Barack Obama and former secretary of state Hillary Clinton remain the most admired man and woman in the United States, according to a survey by Gallup Poll released on Friday...
Mr Obama edged out President Donald Trump, 17 per cent to 14 per cent, while Clinton edged out Michelle Obama, nine per cent to seven per cent...
WASHINGTON: US President Barack Obama addressed the National Prayer Breakfast on Thursday, urging followers of all religions to overcome the fear that divides people in the name of faith...
A team of Pakistani politicians, including PPP chairman Bilawal Bhutto Zardari, Sherry Rehman and Planning Minister Ahsan Iqbal — also attended the annual event, which brings people from across the globe to pray for religious harmony and peace... ...
NEW DELHI: India has the world's highest number of people without access to clean water ? imposing a major financial burden for some of the country's poorest people, according to a report released Tuesday...
That accounts for more than a tenth of the 650m people worldwide without clean water access ? more than any single country in Africa or China, where 63m have no access...
HYDERABAD: Sindh chief minister’s special assistant for relief and rehabilitation Ali Hassan Hingorjo on Friday claimed that 80 per cent people hit or threatened by flooding in the katcha areas of various districts, including Ghotki and Kandhkot- Kashmore, had been shifted to safe places...
Also in view of flood threat amid peak flow in the Indus at Guddu and Sukkur barrages, the displaced people were being provided with relief goods...
NEW YORK: Pakistan’ nobel laureate, education activist, Malala Yousafzai once again made it to the list of the Time Magazine’s 100 most influential people...
The list includes US President Barack Obama and India’s Prime Minister Narendra Modi...
The complaints were made in the form of calls, emails and Facebook messages, most of which referred to harassment on Facebook...
The cyber harassment helpline is the first of its kind in Pakistan providing those facing online harassment “free, safe and confidential” environment to talk and register complaints...