BARACK OBAMA

Prominent Republicans have strongly criticized President Barack Obama’s proposal to redraw the map of Israel to pre-1967 borders, on the eve of talks between the US and Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.

European officials largely endorsed US President Barack Obama’s call for a reshaping of the Israel-Palestine map by reverting to the borders in place before the Six Day War of 1967.

In advance of his White House meeting with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu Friday, President Barack Obama laid bare his peace plan proposal between Israel and Palestine.

Using a region in upheaval as the impetus behind his “Arab spring” speech, President Barack Obama saw to it that the world knew just what it is that America values.

MOEX, a unit of Japanese trading house Mitsui & Co , and partner in BP Plc's doomed Macondo well has agreed to pay the UK oil major $1.1 billion toward the cost of the Gulf of Mexico oil spill.

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu slammed Obama’s speech on Thursday saying, Those borders are not defensible, the Palestinian state must not come at Israel’s expense.

In a much-anticipated address, President Barack Obama’s speech outlined the U.S. policy in the Middle East and North Africa in the middle of the Arab uprisings in the world.

President Barack Obama has said Libyan strongman Muammar Gaddafi will either leave power soon or be forced out. Meanwhile, U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton said Gaddafi's wife and daughter Aisha have fled to Tunisia.

NASA astronaut Mark Kelly, commander of the STS-134 space shuttle mission, made a statement aboard the International Space Station about the future of space exploration. In addition, as he spoke from space Kelly showed off his wedding ring, which he wears around his neck.

The Manhattan Borough President Scott M. Stringer unveiled an online tax calculator for New York City residents, announced Thursday.

President Barack Obama promised to support democracy in nascent revolutions in the Middle East on Friday, saying he would push for billions of dollars in financial incentives for Egypt and Tunisia on Thursday in the wake of uprisings across the region in recent months.

In his wide-ranging speech on his vision for the Middle East, U.S. Barack Obama said the map of Israel and Palestine should adhere to the borders that existed prior to the Six-Day War of 1967.

The Syrian regime of President Bashar al-Assad has condemned sanctions imposed on the country by the President of the United States, according to Syrian state media, SANA.

In his much anticipated Middle East speech, President Barack Obama gave Syrian President Bashar al-Assad two choices: Lead the transition toward democracy, or get out of the way.

Here is the White House text of President Barack Obama‘s speech on the Middle East, as prepared for delivery.

Cornel West, the Princeton Professor who strongly supported President Barack Obama on the campaign trail in 2008, has already previously expressed his disillusionment with what he says is the Obama administration's neglect of the poor and working class people in the United States while supporting the leaders of the nation's financial system.

Check out the photos of Relate to the Matter as I Drop the Bomb exhibition in Dubai featuring Obama, Iran's President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad and Osama bin Laden as The Father, The Son and The Holy Ghost.

The United States, for the first time, has imposed sanctions on the Syrian President Bashar al-Assad and six of his top aides for human rights abuses.

President Barack Obama's campaign team has created Made in USA t-shirts and coffee mugs in light of recent allegations that he is not in-fact American.

The U.S. government will impose sanctions on Bashar al-Assad, the President of Syria, as well as six top Syrian government officials, over human rights abuses perpetrated over the past two months of unrest in that country, according to reports.

Amtrak CEO Joseph Boardman told a Senate committee that losses will continue to increase and long-distance train service has caused the company to lose money, even though Amtrak set a passenger record last year.