Russia: New Iran sanctions won't fly
MOSCOW (AP) Russia pushed back today at U.S. efforts to threaten tough new sanctions if Iran fails to prove its nuclear program is peaceful, a setback to the Obama administration s desire to present a united front with Moscow. After meeting with U....
 5.1K - Oct. 13, 2009; scored 151.0 President lends backing for Chicago bid
WASHINGTON President Barack Obama staged a homecoming-style Olympic rally at the White House on Wednesday, saying the whole country is rooting for his hometown of Chicago in its efforts to host the 2016 Summer Games. Chicago is ready. The American ...
4.1K - Sep. 17, 2009; scored 151.0 Suicide bomb kills 20, hurts more than 130
NAZRAN, Russia (AP) A suicide bomber rammed a truck into a police station in the Russian region of Ingushetia today, killing at least 20 police in the worst attack in the poor North Caucasus republic in years. The blast, which wounded more than 130...
4.2K - Aug. 17, 2009; scored 151.0 Russia confirms subs near U.S. coast
MOSCOW (AP) A senior Russian military official said today that Russian nuclear-powered attack submarines spotted off the U.S. East Coast were on a legitimate training mission. U.S. defense officials said Tuesday that two Russian submarines had been...
2.6K - Aug. 5, 2009; scored 226.0 President backs Chicago's bid
LONDON President Barack Obama renewed his support for Chicago s Olympic bid today, telling African Olympic leaders in a video message the 2016 Games would give America the chance to renew our bonds of friendship around the world. From the beginnin...
4.4K - Jul. 7, 2009; scored 151.0 Obama asks Russia to be ally
MOSCOW Working to turn Russia from antagonist to ally, President Barack Obama asked the Russian people Tuesday to forge a lasting partnership with the U.S., but he acknowledged after talks with Prime Minister Vladimir Putin that on divisive issue...
5.2K - Jul. 7, 2009; scored 251.0 Obama, Russia get deal on nukes
MOSCOW President Obama and Russian President Dmitry Medvedev struck a preliminary deal today to reduce their nations stockpiles of nuclear warheads to as few as 1,500 each, pointing their arsenals toward the lowest levels of any U.S.-Russia arms c...
5.3K - Jul. 6, 2009; scored 151.0 Obama to Putin: Cold War is over
WASHINGTON President Barack Obama said former Russian President Vladimir Putin and his hand-picked successor should expect an in-person reminder the Cold War is over when the U.S. leader makes his first trip to a Moscow summit. Days before he depar...
4.1K - Jul. 3, 2009; scored 1000.0 North Korea warns U.S. of retaliation
MOSCOW - Russia and China expressed serious concern today about tension on the Korean peninsula and, in the face of increasingly belligerent rhetoric, joined international pressure for North Korea to return to nuclear talks. The U.S. vowed it would n...
5.0K - Jun. 17, 2009; scored 240.0 Ukrainian prime minister heads to Moscow to oversee gas deal
KIEV, Ukraine (AP) The Ukrainian prime minister headed to Moscow today as Russia and Ukraine prepared to sign a deal ending a contentious dispute that cut off Russian natural gas shipments to Europe for nearly two weeks. Yulia Tymoshenko and her Ru...
1.5K - Jan. 19, 2009; scored 151.0 Obama honors MLK on eve of inauguration
WASHINGTON Large crowds thronged to the capital today on the eve of Barack Obama s elevation to the presidency as America honored slain civil rights leader Martin Luther King Jr. The president-elect appealed to the nation he is soon to lead to hono...
6.4K - Jan. 19, 2009; scored 151.0 Russia, Ukraine trade blame on gas dispute
MOSCOW (AP) Russia and Ukraine hotly blamed each other today as Russia restarted natural gas supplies but little or no gas flowed toward Europe. EU officials watched in dismay and criticized both nations for their intransigence. Russia s state-cont...
5.9K - Jan. 13, 2009; scored 251.0 Time names Obama Person of the Year
NEW YORK (AP) President-elect Barack Obama has won another contest: He s been named Time magazine s Person of the Year for 2008. The magazine has named Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson, French President Nicolas Sarkozy, Gov. Sarah Palin and Chine...
0.6K - Dec. 17, 2008; scored 151.0 Russian president visits Cold War ally Cuba
HAVANA (AP) Russia s president visited old Cold War ally Cuba on Thursday, spending hours with President Raul Castro on the final leg of a Latin America tour designed to increase Moscow s profile in a region long dominated by the United States. Dmi...
4.6K - Nov. 28, 2008; scored 196.0 Obama backs Chicago s Olympic bid
ISTANBUL, Turkey Chicago presented its 2016 Olympics bid to a key international audience Friday with a powerful endorsement from its highest-profile supporter in America: President-elect Barack Obama. Obama made a personal appeal for the Olympics t...
5.8K - Nov. 22, 2008; scored 151.0 Russia OKs longer terms
MOSCOW (AP) Russian lawmakers gave preliminary approval Friday for extending presidential terms from four years to six a move observers say could pave the way for Vladimir Putin to return to the presidency. The popular Putin, now prime minister, ...
2.2K - Nov. 15, 2008; scored 317.0 Russia may extend presidential term
MOSCOW (AP) The Kremlin says President Dmitry Medvedev has submitted a draft bill that would extend the term of Russia s president from four to six years. Medvedev said in his state of the nation address last week that he would seek constitutional ...
0.7K - Nov. 11, 2008; scored 151.0 | 
