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London, March 13 (ANI): A BBC report has voiced the displeasure that former NASA astronauts have over US President Barack Obama’s decision to push Moon missions further back, with one astronaut even saying that it would be catastrophic for US space exploration.
The astronauts spoke to the BBC at a private event at the Royal Society [...]

GUATEMALA CITY: Demand for illegal narcotics in the United States is fueling drug violence in Central America, US Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton has said, acknowledging a measure of US responsibility for what she called a “terrible criminal scourge.”
“The United States under the Obama administration recognises and accepts its share of responsibility for the [...]

WASHINGTON: US President Barack Obama is making final decisions on a broad new nuclear strategy for the United States that will permanently reduce the US nuclear arsenal by thousands of weapons, The New York Times reported on Monday.
But citing unnamed senior presidential aides, the newspaper said the administration had rejected proposals that the United States [...]

Washington, Mar. 5 (ANI): Former President George W Bush’s top political adviser, Karl Rove, has claimed that Bush would not have ordered the invasion of Iraq had he known that intelligence on weapons of mass destruction was erroneous.
“Would the Iraq war have occurred without WMD? I doubt it. The Bush administration itself would probably have [...]

Baghdad, Sep. 14 (ANI): Iraq has postponed the release of the journalist who threw his shoe at former US President George W Bush in Baghdad last year.raqi television journalist Muntazer al-Zaidi will be released from prison a day later than expected, his brother said.

“He [...]

London, Sep 10(ANI): A survey has found US President Barack Obama’s popularity is gaining massive support in European Union countries.

The German Marshall Fund, which conducted a study, said that 77 per cent of European citizens support Obama’s handling of international affairs, while only 19 per cent found former President George W Bush doing the [...]

London, Sept 9 (ANI): The Iraqi journalist, who threw his shoes at former US President George W. Bush to vent his anger, has been flooded with offer of cars, wives and money as he prepares to get out of jail.

Millions of people have heaped praise at Muntazer al-Zaidi who believe his act of defiance did [...]

London, September 9 (ANI): In a new report, a panel of experts have suggested that humans could orbit Mars in the 2020s, provided NASA’s budget is boosted.

According to an article in the New Scientist, at its current funding level, the agency will be unable to leave low-Earth orbit for at least the next two decades, [...]

New Delhi, Sep 8 (ANI): Union Finance Minister Pranab Mukherjee on Tuesday asked External Affairs Minister S.M. Krishna and his deputy Shashi Tharoor to vacate their five-star hotel suites.

Krishna and Tharoor have been staying in five-star hotels in national capital for the past three [...]

Washington, Sep 2 (ANI): President Barack Obama plans to observe the anniversary of the September 11 terror attacks with a visit to the Pentagon.

White House press secretary Robert Gibbs told reporters about Obama’s plans on Tuesday. Obama, however, has no plans to visit New York in the eighth year since the World Trade Center was [...]

Jerusalem, Aug. 25 (ANI): Israel is open to discussion on the final borders with Palestine, but the country will surely not return to the line of 1967, Israeli Intelligence Affairs Minister Dan Meridor has said.

“Surely, nobody expects Netanyahu to offer more than what Olmert (former PM) offered (to Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas)…Final borders are [...]

Washington, Aug.21 (ANI): The first secretary of homeland security, Tom Ridge, has asserted in a new book that he was pressured by top advisers to President George W. Bush to raise the national threat level just before the [...]

New Delhi, July 15 (ANI): Former US Ambassador to India Frank G Wisner has said that there will be no change in the US administration’s position on the civil nuclear deal with India.

Wisner told captains of Indian industry here last evening that the Obama administration will not deviate from the previous ’sovereign decision’.

“The United States [...]

Washington, July 12 (ANI): A new analysis has indicated that the judicial appointments of former president George W. Bush suggest that his motivation for appointing nontraditional judges was driven more by ideology and strategy than concerns for diversity.

The analysis was done by Jennifer Segal Diascro, a professor of government at American University’s School of Public [...]

London, July 11 (ANI): An American al-Qaeda member, who is serving a 30-year sentence for conspiring to commit various terrorist acts including the murder of then President George W Bush, was banned from reading two books written by Barack Obama, as they were “potentially detrimental to national security.”

Ahmed Omar Abu Ali, an inmate at America’s [...]

Dallas (Texas, US), July 9 (ANI): The Dallas Police Department has cut back on some of the additional protection that the department provided around the Preston Hollow home of former President George W. Bush.

In addition to the usual Secret Service protection, Dallas until last week had stationed one on-duty tactical officer per eight-hour shift on [...]

Washington, July 1 (ANI): President Barack Obama’s claims of broad executive authority to carry out the war on terror are drawing fire from an unexpected source: federal judges nominated by President George W. Bush, who asserted the sweeping powers in the first place.

In recent weeks, three different Bush appointees considering cases relating to war-on-terror [...]

New York, June 25(ANI): A secret FBI file has revealed that former Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein had feared an Iranian attack on his country, more than a US one.

The secret file claims that Saddam had bluffed about his country’s [...]

New York, June 24 (ANI): The Obama Administration is giving Afghanistan the attention it requires to rectify the mistakes of the past, in order to check the unprecedented rise in the violence, and strengthen the Afghan [...]

BRUSSELS: The European Union urged the Untied States on Wednesday to open talks on scrapping a ban on foreign online gambling companies, saying it breaks global trade rules.
The EU says it could seek compensation from the World Trade Organization because the 2006 ban unfairly prevents foreign Internet gambling sites from operating in the United States.
But [...]