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Barack Obama Says Sorry to Japan After WikiLeaks Claims of US Spying
US President Barack Obama today apologised to Tokyo after WikiLeaks claimed Washington had spied on Japanese politicians, a government spokesman said today.
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Sony Says Sorry to Obama, Amid Leaked Emails Storm
The leaks have thrown Sony into damage control mode, amid few signs they are going to stop any time soon.
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Want to take a Selfie? Sorry, not allowed at White House
Some of America's Olympic athletes say they were asked to keep their cellphones in their pockets last week when they visited the White House and met with President Barack Obama.
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How Asia sees Obama's pivot to the Pacific
A lot has happened in Asia while the United States was off fighting its wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, and most of it can be summed up in one word - China. Fuelled by China's amazing growth and the promise of its huge and expanding consumer market, the Asia-Pacific region is now, as experts like to say, the global economy's centre of gravity. Sorry,...
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Protocol glitch: US says sorry to Chavan, Bhujbal
There's been a major protocol glitch on the eve of Barack Obama's visit to Mumbai that has top Maharashtra politicians, including the Chief Minister and the Deputy Chief Minister taking a stand against attending the functions arranged for the US President.The reason for the outrage, a questionnaire sent to the political and bureaucratic big wigs by...
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At the White House, losing a game of phone tag
The White House switchboard -- able to conjure up Santa Claus at a moment's notice for a young Caroline Kennedy -- is famous for its ability to track down anyone, anywhere, anytime. But last week, both the White House and the secretary of agriculture, Tom Vilsack, were unable to muster that switchboard magic to reach Shirley Sherrod, the Department...
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President Obama and the race issue
It was exactly one year ago on Thursday that President Obama plunged into a thicket of racial politics by declaring that a white police officer in Cambridge, Mass., had "acted stupidly" in arresting a black Harvard University professor in his own home. Suddenly, the president whose election suggested the promise of a postracial future w...
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Shirley Sherrod gets biggest 'I'm sorry' from Obama
Flooded with apologies from everywhere, Shirley Sherrod got the biggest "I'm sorry" of all Thursday -- from a contrite President Barack Obama, who personally appealed to the ousted worker to come back. (Buzz on Twitter)Sherrod, who was forced to resign on Monday because of racial comments she made at an NAACP gathering, was asked by Obama to rejoin...
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Barack Obama Says Sorry to Japan After WikiLeaks Claims of US Spying
US President Barack Obama today apologised to Tokyo after WikiLeaks claimed Washington had spied on Japanese politicians, a government spokesman said today.
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Sony Says Sorry to Obama, Amid Leaked Emails Storm
The leaks have thrown Sony into damage control mode, amid few signs they are going to stop any time soon.
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Want to take a Selfie? Sorry, not allowed at White House
Some of America's Olympic athletes say they were asked to keep their cellphones in their pockets last week when they visited the White House and met with President Barack Obama.
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How Asia sees Obama's pivot to the Pacific
A lot has happened in Asia while the United States was off fighting its wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, and most of it can be summed up in one word - China. Fuelled by China's amazing growth and the promise of its huge and expanding consumer market, the Asia-Pacific region is now, as experts like to say, the global economy's centre of gravity. Sorry,...
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Protocol glitch: US says sorry to Chavan, Bhujbal
There's been a major protocol glitch on the eve of Barack Obama's visit to Mumbai that has top Maharashtra politicians, including the Chief Minister and the Deputy Chief Minister taking a stand against attending the functions arranged for the US President.The reason for the outrage, a questionnaire sent to the political and bureaucratic big wigs by...
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At the White House, losing a game of phone tag
The White House switchboard -- able to conjure up Santa Claus at a moment's notice for a young Caroline Kennedy -- is famous for its ability to track down anyone, anywhere, anytime. But last week, both the White House and the secretary of agriculture, Tom Vilsack, were unable to muster that switchboard magic to reach Shirley Sherrod, the Department...
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President Obama and the race issue
It was exactly one year ago on Thursday that President Obama plunged into a thicket of racial politics by declaring that a white police officer in Cambridge, Mass., had "acted stupidly" in arresting a black Harvard University professor in his own home. Suddenly, the president whose election suggested the promise of a postracial future w...
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Shirley Sherrod gets biggest 'I'm sorry' from Obama
Flooded with apologies from everywhere, Shirley Sherrod got the biggest "I'm sorry" of all Thursday -- from a contrite President Barack Obama, who personally appealed to the ousted worker to come back. (Buzz on Twitter)Sherrod, who was forced to resign on Monday because of racial comments she made at an NAACP gathering, was asked by Obama to rejoin...
