The Palestinian leadership remains prepared to put statehood on the backburner at the UN security council in order to leave room for the revival of peace talks, according to senior Palestinian sources. The Palestinian leader, Mahmoud Abbas, is said to have told Barack Obama at a meeting on Wednesday evening that he would agree to delaying a security council vote by several weeks, although the Pale
AFP/Getty Images A screen shot of a video posted on the Internet on October 6, 2010 showing militants from al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula. On Friday, a front-page New York Times story reported that a rift has emerged within the Obama Administration over whether it has authority to kill “rank-and-file” Islamist militants in foreign countries in which there is not an internationally recognized “a
In late April, a month after the United States lobbied the U.N. Security Council to support a NATO operation shielding anti-Qaddafi rebels in Libya from slaughter, Ryan Lizza published a detailed report in these pages called “The Consequentialist.” Lizza set out to describe the evolution of the President’s foreign-policy thinking and the way it applied to the regional phenomenon known as the Arab
House Speaker John Boehner (centre) said his plan would put the US fiscal house back in order The White House has warned that President Obama could veto a debt limit plan proposed by top House Republicans. Meanwhile, Speaker John Boehner's plan to trim public spending and raise the limit met with resistance from rank-and-file members of his own party. A House of Representatives vote on the plan wa
【ワシントン白戸圭一】オバマ米政権は29日、米同時多発テロ(01年9月)の発生から9月で10年を迎えるのを前に、テロ組織やテロ支援国家に対処する際の基本方針を盛り込んだ同政権初の「テロとの戦いに関する国家戦略」を発表した。新戦略では、世界規模での「対テロ戦争」を追求したブッシュ前政権の戦略から方針を全面的に転換。情報機関や特殊部隊の活動を重視し、国際テロ組織アルカイダと系列組織に焦点を絞ったテロ対策を進める方針を打ち出した。 ◇「9・11」10年を前に ブッシュ前政権は同時多発テロを受けて03年2月に策定した国家戦略で、世界各地のテロ組織やテロ支援国家への先制攻撃も辞さない方針を強調。06年9月改定の戦略では、「民主主義の効果的な拡大」がテロ対策に有効だとして世界規模の民主化を追求し、イラン、シリアなどの「無法者国家」に大量破壊兵器を保有させないことにも重点を置いた。 これに対し、新戦略で
Barack Obama has warned of "significant consequences" for the US economy if stalled financial negotiations lead to Congress failing to permit more government borrowing and America defaults on its debts. The president, in a rare hour-long news conference, called on Republicans to "take on their sacred cows" – including tax breaks for "millionaires and billionaires, oil companies and corporate jet o
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