Word: situationer
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Even without factoring in climate change, India's got a plate full of problems to deal with. Officials say ineffective management, bureaucracy and disaster planning have all contributed to the worsening of an already bad situation.
A few minutes later, Press Secretary Robert Gibbs called the President to wake him up with the news, which had been sent around internally to White House staff in an email from Situation Room Staff at about 5 a.m. that read: "Item of Interest: President Obama Wins Nobel Prize." (See...
Gibbs' call to the White House was patched through the Situation Room to the President's residence at about 6 a.m., where Obama was woken by the call. Gibbs has declined to describe the exact words that Obama used to describe his surprise at the news, but the President was...
Iraq Even when the last U.S. forces prepare to leave Iraq two years from now, President Obama won't claim to have ended that war - because the timetable and terms for U.S. withdrawal are prescribed in the Status of Forces Agreement concluded with Iraq by President George W. Bush weeks...
Afghanistan Far from ending the conflict in Afghanistan, President Obama came into office declaring it the "war of necessity", and immediately ordered a further 21,000 U.S. troops into the fight. Since then, the sheer scale of the challenge has become apparent to his Administration, particularly after his commander on...