Dr Akshay Desai from Florida and Joseph Melookaran from Kansas have been chosen by Bush as Commissioners to the President's Advisory Commission on Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders.
Filmmaker Michael Moore's unpopularity with the Bush administration was never a secret but a Wikileaks cable has revealed that panicky US officials had tried to stop a screening of his documentary 'Fahrenheit 9/11' in New Zealand, terming it a "potential fiasco"
US President George W Bush on Thursday said in a major speech on his government's Asian policy that the United States under his administration has dramatically turned around Washington-New Delhi ties, citing the landmark Indo-US nuclear deal. "For example, America has dramatically improved our ties with India, the world's largest democracy, including a historic agreement on civilian nuclear energy," he said.
Meeting in Hotel Windsor on Mount Poromoi hours before the Left parties would be withdrawing support on the nuclear deal, both Dr Singh and Bush expressed mutual admiration for each other and spoke of the need for closer relationship between the two countries.
Condemning the serial blasts that rocked New Delhi over the weekend, the United States on Monday said that terrorism will be high on the agenda when Prime Minister Manmohan Singh meets President George W Bush later this month.The Prime Minister, who will go to the United Nations to attend the General Assembly, will meet Bush at the White House on September 25.
Lifting the arms embargo would allow the transfer of critical military technology to the Chinese that would 'change the balance of relations between China and Taiwan, and that's of concern,' he said.
Former United States President George W Bush has said he regretted flying a 'Mission Accomplished' banner on the USS Abraham Lincoln in 2003 and inaccurate information on weapons of mass destruction in Iraq.
Soros, dismayed by what he perceives to be the Bush administration's unilateralism abroad and its "authoritarian" politics at home, is on a crusade, the Newsweek magazine says in an article being published in its upcoming issue.
'The time has come for all those believe in a democratic India to stand up and be counted and to make a choice.'
Bush's approval rating, which stands at 28 percent in our new poll, remains better than the all-time lows set by Harry Truman and Richard Nixon (22 percent and 24 percent respectively), but even those two presidents never got a disapproval rating in the 70s. The poll also indicates that support for the war in Iraq has never been lower. Thirty percent of those questioned favoured the war, while 68 percent opposed it.
United States President George Bush and his top administration officials issued hundreds of false statements about the threat posed by Iraq in the two years following the 9/11 terror attack, according to a study by the Center for Public Integrity, a non-profit journalism organisation.The false statements were made by Bush, Vice President Dick Cheney, Secretary of State Colin Powell, National Security Adviser Condoleezza Rice, Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld.
'HIV/AIDS is the greatest health crisis of our time. Its defeat requires the cooperation of the entire global community,' he said.
The prime minister is scheduled to meet President Bush at 17.10 hours local time (0230 hours IST Friday). Indications that the agreement may not be inked on Thursday were given by David Mulford, US Ambassador to India, who received Dr Singh at the Andrews Air Force base near Washington.
'Both sides welcomed the successful completion of discussions on India's separation plan and looked forward to\nthe full implementation of the commitment in the July 18, 2005, joint statement on nuclear cooperation.'
Do you have a message -- of welcome, caution, advice, criticism -- for the US President?
External Affairs Minister Pranab Mukherjee is likely to meet United States President George W Bush on Monday and brief him on the progress in the negotiations with the International Atomic Energy Agency on the India-US nuclear agreement.Mukherjee will also be holding discussions with US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice and other top officials of the Bush administration. The visit takes place within days of Mukherjee stating that India can neither mend nor end the deal.
Cricketer-turned-politician Imran Khan said he would demonstrate against President George W Bush during his upcoming visit to Pakistan.
Months before the 9/11 attacks, former US President George Bush had received multiple briefings by intelligence agencies warning of an "imminent" attack on US soil by Al Qaeda but he did not take prompt action that could have prevented the tragedy, an op-ed in the 'New York Times' said.
The $3 trillion plus budget presented on Monday by President George W Bush has called for increase in funding to support key allies in the global war against terrorism as well as funding to improve response to international crises.
Addressing students at England's prestigious Oxford University in London the former Pakistan fast bowler accused the US president of 'lacking leadership' on the Iraq issue.
President George W Bush has signed an $87.5 billion package for military operations.
"I hope that we will have the opportunity to welcome you in India very soon," he said in a letter to Bush, congratulating him on his re-election to White House.
Dr Kakodkar's strategic stubbornness ultimately got India what it wanted though the negotiations with the US went to the wire, notes Shivanand Kanavi.
The President chose the car at the last minute.
'He's probably in a hole somewhere hiding from justice,' the US president told ABC television in an interview.
The new poll showed Kerry has the support of 50 per cent of all registered voters, compared with 44 per cent for Bush, with independent candidate Ralph Nader at 2 per cent.
Addressing a join press conference with British PM Gordon Brown, US President Bush said that failure in Iran would send a message to the world that the US cannot be counted upon. He added that it was important to succeed in Iraq to defeat the Al Qaeda and to thwart Iran's 'ambitions' of acquiring nuclear weapons. Bush and Gordon both dismissed speculation that the relationship between the two was not as 'special' as that between Bush and former British PM Tony Blair.
President George W Bush said he is "pleased" with outgoing Under Secretary of State Nicholas Burns for agreeing to continue to handle the "historic" Indo-US civil nuclear deal in which Washington has been making "progress" under him.
Prime Minister Manmohan Singh is expected to brief United States President George W Bush on the developments about the India-United States nuclear agreement in the wake of stiff opposition by the Left parties. In his telephonic conversation, Singh is likely to apprise Bush about the hurdles faced by his government in taking the next steps to operationalise the deal. The Left parties have repeatedly threatened the govt of grave consequences.
Condoleezza Rice "ordered" then United States President George W Bush to stay out of Washington after the 9/11 attacks before hanging up the phone, the former national security advisor has revealed in a documentary interview.
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