The wife of an American serving a 15-year term in a Cuban prison demanded Thursday that President Barack Obama personally intervene for his safe return.
Alan Gross, who turns 65 on Friday, was arrested in December 2009 for allegedly distributing telecommunications equipment in Cuba while he was working as a contractor for the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID).
Full StoryRepublican lawmakers compared Barack Obama's White House to the secretive Nixon administration on Thursday, denouncing its response to the 2012 attack on a U.S. mission in Benghazi, Libya.
On Wednesday a conservative group published a White House email it had obtained after a legal challenge and which critics say shows an attempt to put a political spin on the deadly assault.
Full StoryBarack Obama's Asia-Pacific legacy is now taking shape, but he has work to do to complete a genuine rebalancing of U.S. power to the region that goes beyond rhetoric.
The U.S. leader ended his four-nation Asian tour in the Philippines Tuesday, after spending a week telling China not to use coercion in maritime disputes and reassuring allies that U.S. security guarantees are genuine.
Full StoryPresident Barack Obama's approval rating has hit a new low as Americans disapprove of his policies on the economy, health care and the crisis in Ukraine, according to a new poll.
Obama's rating sunk to 41 percent from 46 percent in the first three of the year, according to the Washington Post-ABC News poll released late Monday in a worrying sign for allied Democrats facing legislative elections in November.
Full StoryBarack Obama's frustration is spilling over as he makes the most strident defense of his foreign policy yet, rebuking critics who say his diplomacy is haphazard, weak and blurs U.S. national security red lines.
The U.S. president's patience snapped several times during his tour of Asia which wrapped up in the Philippines Tuesday, when confronted by arguments that he has failed to put his stamp on a world increasingly flouting U.S. power.
Full StoryPresident Barack Obama landed in the Philippines Monday to cement new defense ties on the last leg of an Asian tour conducted against a backdrop of territorial tensions between U.S. allies and China.
Obama flew into Manila from Malaysia, hours after the allies signed a new defense agreement allowing more U.S. troops and defense hardware to rotate through the Philippines, part of a U.S. re balancing of military power towards rising Asia.
Full StoryThe Philippines said it would sign an agreement on Monday with the United States to allow a greater U.S. military presence on its territory, giving it a security boost amid a bitter territorial dispute with China.
A statement from the Department of National Defense on Sunday said the signing would take place in Manila on Monday morning, a few hours before U.S. President Barack Obama is due to arrive for a two-day visit.
Full StoryPyongyang launched a vicious personal attack on South Korean President Park Geun-Hye Sunday, calling her a "prostitute" in thrall to her "pimp" Barack Obama, as it said it was ready for "full-scale nuclear war".
In a diatribe that was strongly worded even by the standards of its normally florid prose, the North lashed out at the relationship between a "master and its puppet" and threatened Park would pay a "dear price".
Full StoryU.S. President Barack Obama on Sunday said new international sanctions set to come into force against Russia would send a message that it must stop its "provocation" in eastern Ukraine.
"It is important for us to take further steps sending a message to Russia that these kinds of destabilizing activities taking place in Ukraine has to stop," Obama said at a press conference in Malaysia.
Full StoryPresident Barack Obama nudged Malaysia on Sunday over its controversial handling of dissent but made clear Washington intended to deepen its friendship with a country it considers vital to U.S. objectives in the Asia-Pacific.
Obama also offered continued U.S. support in the search for missing flight MH370 as he held talks with Prime Minister Najib Razak, after which the two leaders declared the start of a warmer new era in relations.
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