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Obama, President Barack • problems with alleged Kenyan birth certificate...
...failed to topple the ailing presidency of Georgian President Mikheil Saakashvili, one of the Kremlin's archenemies, his power inside the country was weakened. Street protests against him have only recently come to an end. The war also strained Russia's relations with the West - relations that U.S. President Barack Obama was trying to reset on his recent visit to Moscow. (See pictures of Obama in Russia...
...police Wall Street. He would like to impose new oversight on hedge funds and derivatives and give government the power to close large failing nonbank financial institutions before they can threaten the entire system, as happened with AIG less than a year ago. (See who's who in Barack Obama's White House...
...increasingly unruly Ahmadinejad, who briefly defied the Supreme Leader in trying to appoint an in-law as his Vice President. Now, within two weeks, he must appoint a new Cabinet that a divided parliament must approve. But perhaps most pressing is the impending showdown with the West. U.S. President Barack Obama has given the Iranian government a September deadline to come to the negotiating table on the nuclear issue...
...month ago, Barack Obama made his first trip to Africa as President and, while in Ghana, delivered a message of support tinged with impatience with leaders who have not been held accountable for their misdeeds. His Kenyan ancestry and the continent's nearly universal adoration for a man it sees as an African son put him in the rare position of being able to say such things without being viewed as a neocolonial scold. Now U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton has embarked on a mammoth seven-nation Africa tour to follow up her boss's sermon with preaching...