Tag: Barack Obama

Obama says Trump ‘unfit’ to be president

by Andrew BEATTY WASHINGTON, United States (AFP) — In a searing and virtually unprecedented presidential rebuke, Barack Obama declared embattled Republican White House nominee Donald Trump “unfit” to be president Tuesday and called on party leaders to disown him. Obama piled on as Trump’s campaign reeled from multiple self-inflicted scandals, calling the 70-year-old mogul “woefully unprepared” and “unfit to serve as president.” “He keeps proving it,” said Obama, standing alongside the prime minister of Singapore […]

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Obama blasts isolationism, with Trump in sights

by Jerome CARTILLIER OTTAWA, Canada (AFP) — US President Barack Obama warned Wednesday against isolationist tendencies in America and elsewhere, calling it “the wrong medicine” to fix legitimate concerns about globalization. While Obama did not mention Donald Trump by name, he took a clear swipe at the Republican presidential candidate’s heated anti-trade rhetoric during a “Three Amigos” summit with his Canadian and Mexican counterparts. “Even if we wanted to we can’t seal ourselves off from […]

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Trudeau to host Obama, Pena Nieto for North Americas summit

by Michel COMTE OTTAWA, Canada (AFP) — Canada, Mexico and the United States will look to dovetail their climate and other policies into a continental strategy when Prime Minister Justin Trudeau hosts Barack Obama and Enrique Pena Nieto on Wednesday. But Britain’s shocking vote to quit the European Union has also abruptly shoved itself onto the agenda of the summit, which the countries tend to hold once a year. Trudeau and Obama had both called […]

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Obama confident UK ‘committed to orderly transition’ out of EU

PALO, ALTO, United States (AFP) — US President Barack Obama said Friday he was confident that Britain would make an “orderly transition” out of the European Union, and insisted the special relationship between Washington and London would not change. “Yesterday’s vote speaks to the ongoing changes and challenges that are raised by globalization,” Obama told an audience at Stanford University, one day after British voters opted to leave the bloc in a historic referendum. After […]

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China’s Xi sends ‘deep ‘condolences’ over US club massacre

BEIJING , China (AFP) — Chinese President Xi Jinping called his US counterpart Barack Obama on Monday to express “deep condolences” over the 50 people killed by a gunman in a Florida gay nightclub, officials said. Xi “expressed deep sympathy and sincere condolences to the American people” and “deep condolences” to the victims of the attack, the foreign ministry said on its website. He joined an international outpouring of sympathy over the worst mass shooting […]

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Obama hopeful Sanders will wind up campaign within a ‘couple of weeks’

WASHINGTON, United States (AFP) — Barack Obama expressed hope Wednesday that Bernie Sanders in “the next couple of weeks” will finally concede having lost the Democratic presidential nomination to Hillary Clinton, despite having vowed to fight on through the party’s convention next month. Appearing Wednesday on the “Tonight Show with Jimmy Fallon,” Obama said that on balance, Sanders’s candidacy in the hardfought Democratic campaign was a positive. “It was a healthy thing for the Democratic […]

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Clinton, Trump kick off their White House war

by Ivan Couronne WASHINGTON , United States (AFP) — Hillary Clinton savored history Wednesday as the first woman to claim the US presidential nomination for a major party, taking stock before a bruising war for the White House against Donald Trump. Eight years after she was defeated by Barack Obama, Clinton declared a historic milestone for women on the biggest night of her more than three-decade political career, determined to shatter the ultimate glass ceiling […]

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Obama congratulates Clinton, will meet Sanders Thursday

WASHINGTON, United States (AFP) — US President Barack Obama congratulated Hillary Clinton on Tuesday for clinching the Democratic presidential nomination, and planned to meet with her party rival Bernie Sanders later this week, the White House said. Obama called Clinton and Sanders and “congratulated both candidates for running inspiring campaigns that have energized Democrats, brought a new generation of Americans into the political process, and shined a spotlight on important policy ideas,” White House press […]

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Obama arrives at Hiroshima atomic bomb park

HIROSHIMA, Japan (AFP) — Barack Obama arrived at Hiroshima’s atomic bomb park Friday on a historic first visit by a sitting US president. Obama was greeted by Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe at the Hiroshima Peace Memorial Park, where he was due to lay a wreath at the cenotaph to victims of the 1945 nuclear strike. jca-hg/aph © 1994-2016 Agence France-Presse

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Obama to make history with Hiroshima journey

by Shingo Ito HIROSHIMA, United States (AFP) — President Barack Obama is set make history on Friday as he travels to Hiroshima — becoming the first sitting US leader to visit the site that ushered in the destructive power of the nuclear age. The trip comes more than seven decades after the world was first shown the potential keys to its own destruction when an American plane, the Enola Gay, dropped its payload, dubbed “Little […]

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No Obama apology for A-bomb on Hiroshima

Tokyo, Japan (AFP)–United States President Barack Obama will not apologize for the atomic bombing of Hiroshima on his landmark visit this week, he told Japanese public broadcaster NHK in an interview. Asked if an apology would be included in remarks he plans to make there, he said: “No, because I think that it’s important to recognize that in the midst of war, leaders make all kinds of decisions.” © 1994-2016 Agence France-Presse

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Emotional return as first U.S. cruise in decades reaches Cuba

  (Reuters)    Hundreds of tourists and a handful of emotional Cuban-Americans arrived on the first U.S. cruise ship to sail to Havana in more than 50 years on Monday (April 4), spilling onto the cobbled streets of the old city where they were warmly greeted by residents. It was another first for the two countries since U.S. President Barack Obama and Cuban President Raul Castro announced a historic rapprochement in December 2014, and comes weeks […]

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