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Obama outlines sweeping goal of nuclear-free world (AP) Posted: 05 Apr 2009 03:52 PM PDT AP - Declaring the future of mankind at stake, President Barack Obama on Sunday said all nations must strive to rid the world of nuclear arms and that the U.S. had a "moral responsibility" to lead because no other country has used one.

NKorean missile launch tests Obama (AP) Posted: 05 Apr 2009 07:54 AM PDT AP - North Korea's defiant rocket launch has confronted President Barack Obama with his first global security crisis and a difficult diplomatic challenge for his young administration.

Treasury chief puts bailed-out bank CEOs on notice (AP) Posted: 05 Apr 2009 12:24 PM PDT AP - The government may require new faces in executive suites at banks requiring "exceptional assistance" in the future, Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner said Sunday.

Obama urges EU to accept Turkey as member (AP) Posted: 05 Apr 2009 04:26 AM PDT AP - President Barack Obama is urging the European Union to accept Turkey as a member, saying it would be a positive sign to the Muslim world.

Poll: Voters back force in N. Korea (Politico) Posted: 05 Apr 2009 08:07 AM PDT Politico - American voters across lines of age, party and gender support a military approach to eliminate North Korea's nuclear capabilities, according to a Rasmussen Reports survey released Sunday morning — and conducted in the two days prior to North Korea's test missile launch on Saturday.

US wants limits on Antarctic tourism (AP) Posted: 05 Apr 2009 03:36 AM PDT AP - The Obama administration is pushing to protect Antarctica's fragile environment by imposing mandatory limits on the size of cruise ships sailing there and the number of passengers they bring ashore.

Ex-Rep. Simmons noisily taking on Conn. Sen Dodd (AP) Posted: 05 Apr 2009 07:06 AM PDT AP - The staid Capitol Hill Club dining room was quiet. Except for Rob Simmons.

US wants jailed journalists in NKorea freed soon (AP) Posted: 05 Apr 2009 09:40 AM PDT AP - The U.S. envoy to the United Nations says the Obama administration hopes two American journalists detained in North Korea will be released swiftly and safely. But Ambassador Susan Rice acknowledges there are no guarantees.

GM CEO softens company's opposition to bankruptcy (AP) Posted: 05 Apr 2009 10:42 AM PDT AP - General Motors Corp. is softening its opposition to bankruptcy reorganization a little more.

Analysis: Obama visit to Turkey no afterthought (AP) Posted: 05 Apr 2009 07:20 AM PDT AP - President Barack Obama's stop in Turkey is hardly an afterthought, a "while I'm in the neighborhood" visit.

Obama seeks to boost ties with Muslim ally Turkey (Reuters) Posted: 05 Apr 2009 03:58 PM PDT Reuters - President Barack Obama will seek on Monday to shore up ties with Turkey, a Muslim country with growing clout whose help Washington needs to solve confrontations and conflicts from Iran to Afghanistan.

Obama Faces First Foreign Test Over North Korean Missile Launch (Bloomberg) Posted: 05 Apr 2009 03:37 PM PDT Bloomberg - April 6 (Bloomberg) -- Hillary Clinton raised the question in a television ad last year of whether she or campaign rival Barack Obama was better suited to answer the inevitable 3 a.m. phone call about a crisis somewhere in the world.

N. Korea launch reignites debate (Politico) Posted: 05 Apr 2009 03:31 PM PDT Politico - PRAGUE — As foreign crises go, this one wasn't exactly unexpected.

Geithner denies White House sidestepping CEO pay limits (Reuters) Posted: 05 Apr 2009 03:08 PM PDT Reuters - U.S. Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner denied on Sunday the Obama administration was crafting bailout initiatives to allow companies to evade limits on executive pay and other restrictions imposed by Congress.

Text of President Obama in Prague (AP) Posted: 05 Apr 2009 01:06 PM PDT AP - Text of President Barack Obama's remarks in Prague, Czech Republic, on Sunday, as prepared for delivery and provided by the White House.

WHITE HOUSE NOTEBOOK: Obama's Czech impresses (AP) Posted: 05 Apr 2009 10:17 AM PDT AP - It's not easy to say "Velvet Revolution" in Czech, but President Barack Obama came off sounding almost like a native speaker.

Obama sets out plan for nuclear-free world (Reuters) Posted: 05 Apr 2009 09:30 AM PDT Reuters - President Barack Obama set out his vision for ridding the world of nuclear arms on Sunday, declaring the United States ready to lead steps by all states with atomic weapons to reduce their arsenals.

First lady Michelle Obama tours Prague (AP) Posted: 05 Apr 2009 08:06 AM PDT AP - Michelle Obama's whirlwind tour of Prague turned into a love affair with a city and its people. "I'll be back," she said.

GM planning for bankruptcy (Politico) Posted: 05 Apr 2009 08:04 AM PDT Politico - Fritz Henderson, GM’s new president and CEO, said for the first time Sunday that the automaker is planning for the possibility of restructuring within bankruptcy, although he said he still hoped to avoid that public-relations nightmare.

VIDEO: Newt: I would've disabled missile (Politico) Posted: 05 Apr 2009 07:40 AM PDT Politico - Former House Speaker Newt Gingrich told “Fox News Sunday” that he would have disabled the long-range missile before North Korea launched it, saying too many people “do not appreciate the scale of the threat that is evolving on the planet.”

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