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Pakistan took a lot of criticism in Saturday's Republican U.S. presidential debate, with a leading candidate saying it was nearly a failed state and...

Throwing populist punches, President Barack Obama is out to dispel the woes of August and outmaneuver Republicans over the $447 billion jobs bill on...

A new poll Tuesday found Americans are increasingly frustrated with both US President Barack Obama and his Republican rivals over the stalled US economic...

US Republican leaders scrambled on Friday to rescue their budget deficit-cutting plan after conservatives mounted a rebellion that heaped uncertainty on efforts to avert...

US Republicans moved Wednesday to cut aid to several of Israel’s neighbours and to tighten control of assistance to Pakistan, vowing to get tough...

The Republicans in the US House of Representatives unveiled a nearly $650 billion defence package that would fully back President Barack Obama’s war funding...

Top Republican contenders for the White House in 2012 accused President Barack Obama on Thursday of betraying staunch US ally Israel in his new...

As much of Britain was entranced by the fairytale royal wedding on Friday, opponents of the monarchy vented their annoyance at an occasion they...

CHICAGO - US President Barack Obama accused his Republican foes of wanting to turn the US into a "third world" country on Thursday as he rallied support for his re-election campaign. The attack came a day after Obama savaged Republican budget plans and unveiled his $4-trillion deficit reduction drive that aims to raise taxes on the wealthiest Americans in order to preserve for key social services.
The debate over fiscal policy will prove critical to the 2012 campaign and Obama

CHICAGO - US President Barack Obama accused his Republican foes of wanting to turn the United States into a "Third World" country Thursday as he rallied support for his reelection campaign.
The attack came a day after Obama savaged Republican budget plans and unveiled his $4 trillion deficit reduction drive that aims to raise taxes on the wealthiest Americans in order to preserve key social services.
The debate over fiscal policy will prove critical to the 2012 campaign, and

WASHINGTON: President Barack Obama on Saturday assured angry US voters who routed his Democratic allies this week that he got their message and urged jubilant Republicans to work with him on a tax-cut deal.
"Your message was clear," the president told Americans in his weekly radio address. "You're rightly frustrated with the pace of our economic recovery. So am I.
You're fed up with partisan politics and want results. I do too."
Obama vowed to target stubbornly high

WASHINGTON: US Republicans, fired-up by their elections romp, vowed to slash government spending and target President Barack Obama's signature health care overhaul with an eye on defeating him in 2012.
Obama, warning "we can't afford two years of just squabbling," announced he had invited top congressional Republicans and Democrats to the White House on November 18 to seek ways to work together after Tuesday's ballot-box rebuke.
"I think it's clear that the voters sent a

CHICAGO: Republicans won a big prize after making huge gains in state legislatures: a once-in-a-decade chance to literally redraw political maps.
The landslide which gave Republicans control of the US House of Representatives in one of the chamber's largest political swings also propelled Republicans to historic gains at the state level in Tuesday's key mid-term elections.
Republicans now control more state legislatures than at any point since 1928 and picked up a net gain