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WorldDecember 23, 2020
Twitter to wipe POTUS account’s followers ahead of Biden inauguration day
Washington: US President-elect Joe Biden’s presidential campaign digital director on Tuesday said that Twitter told the Biden team that it would be “wiping followers” from the official POTUS (President of…
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WorldDecember 19, 2020
Barack Obama shares list of favourite films, TV shows of 2020
Washington: Former American President Barack Obama on Friday (local time) said that he spent this year binging on TV shows and watching movies due to the pandemic and shared a…
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Featured NewsDecember 11, 2020
Obama reunion? Biden fills Cabinet with former WH leaders
Washington: President-elect Joe Biden is getting the old gang back together. Increasingly deep into the process of selecting Cabinet members and other senior staff, the incoming Biden administration has a…
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WorldNovember 19, 2020
Obama’s newly-released memoir breaks first-day sales record
Washington: Former US President Barack Obama’s highly anticipated memoir “A Promised Land” has sold nearly 890,000 copies in the US and Canada in its first 24 hours of sale, according…
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WorldNovember 17, 2020
Spent childhood listening to Ramayana and Mahabharata: Obama
Washington: Former US President Barack Obama said that he has always held a special place for India due to his childhood years spent in Indonesia listening to the epic Hindu…
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WorldNovember 16, 2020
It is time for Trump to concede: Obama
Washington:It’s time for US President Donald Trump to concede to President-elect Joe Biden, as there is no scenario to reverse the outcome of the election, his predecessor Barack Obama has…
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Top StoriesNovember 13, 2020
Rahul Gandhi’s mention in Obama’s book leaves Twitter divided
Indian Twitter is all stirred up after the reports emerged of an assessment of Congress leader Rahul Gandhi in Barack Obama’s new book. In his book A Promised Land, the…
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WorldOctober 22, 2020
Barack Obama launches fiery attack on Trump
Philadelphia: Former US President Barack Obama on Wednesday (local time) launched a fiery attack on Donald Trump, stating that the man, who cannot take the basic steps to protect himself,…
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WorldSeptember 17, 2020
First volume of Obama’s memoir coming out on November 17
New York: Former US president Barack Obama will come out with the first of his two-part memoir “A Promised Land” on November 17 in which he describes his presidential campaign and…
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Hyderabad NewsSeptember 12, 2020
Obama photographer’s Hyderabad trip makes it to TIFF film
New Delhi: Veteran photojournalist Pete Souza’s trip to Hyderabad in May 2019 has made it to award-winning American filmmaker Dawn Porter’s feature-length documentary on the former’s a nearly decade-long stint as…
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WorldAugust 20, 2020
Sikhs, Muslims made to ‘feel suspect’ for their worshipping, says Obama as he slams prez Trump
New York: Minority communities like Sikhs and Muslims have been made to “feel suspect” for the way they worshipped, former US president Barack Obama has said as he tore into Donald…
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WorldAugust 19, 2020
Former top US official slams Trump for dividing, isolating country
New York: America’s two former top diplomats have slammed President Donald Trump for dividing the country, with one of them calling his foreign policy record as a blooper reel while asserting…
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WorldAugust 12, 2020
Biden ‘nailed this decision’ in picking Harris to be his running mate: Obama
Washington: Former US president Barack Obama has joined top Democrats, including Hillary Clinton, to praise Indian-American Senator Kamala Harris’ selection as the party’s vice presidential candidate in the November election, saying…
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WorldAugust 7, 2020
Barack Obama could be pioneer of the dad-shoe trend
Washington D.C. [USA]: Former American President Barack Obama seems to have started the dad-shoe trend with his off-duty looks. According to Footwear News, in several images of Obama’s off-duty look,…
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NewsJuly 31, 2020
Obama calls for end to voter suppression
Washington: Former US President Barack Obama has sharply criticised what he described as Republican attempts at voter suppression, saying that people in power were “attacking our voting rights with surgical…
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WorldMay 18, 2020
Obama was ‘grossly incompetent president’: Trump
Washington: US President Donald Trump on Sunday called his predecessor Barak Obama a grossly incompetent president’. The Trump’s reaction came after Obama on Saturday criticised the US authorities’ response to…
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WorldMay 14, 2020
Obama emerges as central figure in 2020 presidential race
Washington: Nearly eight years after he was last on the ballot, Barack Obama is emerging as a central figure in the 2020 presidential election. Democrats are eagerly embracing Obama as…
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WorldMay 10, 2020
COVID-19: Obama lashes out at Trump in call with supporters
Washington: Former President Barack Obama harshly criticized President Donald Trump’s handling of the coronavirus pandemic as an absolute chaotic disaster during a conversation with ex-members of his administration. Obama also…
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WorldMarch 5, 2020
Barack Obama lists precautions to contain spread of coronavirus
Washington DC: Former President of United States, Barack Obama suggested precautions to contain the spread of deadly coronavirus. He asked residents of the US to listen to the federal agency,…
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WorldMarch 2, 2020
Talks with US started secretly under Obama: Taliban
Doha: The US-Taliban negotiations that culminated with a peace deal signed in Doha began with former US President Barak Obama’s administration, but remained a secret, the spokesperson for Talibans political…
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HollywoodFebruary 10, 2020
Obamas’ first film wins best documentary Oscar
Washington: The Barack and Michelle Obama-produced film “American Factory” snagged an Oscar on Sunday for best documentary — a win for Netflix, which backed the story of a manufacturing plant…
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Bollywood NewsFebruary 10, 2020
Barack Obama’s production debut ‘American Factory’ wins Oscar
California: Former US President Barack Obama’s production debut ‘American Factory’ won the Academy Award for the Best Documentary feature on Sunday (local time). The film’s directors Julia Reichert, Steven Bognar,…
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NewsDecember 20, 2019
Indian YouTuber Anisha met ex-US President Barack Obama
Singapore: Indian YouTuber Anisha Dixit, who is popularly known as Rickshawali, recently met former American President Barack Obama in Singapore. She was part of a panel discussion and Meet and…
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WorldDecember 16, 2019
Women are indisputably better than men: Obama
Singapore: Former US President Barack Obama said on Monday that if women ran every country in the world, there would be a general improvement in living standards and outcomes. Speaking…
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NewsDecember 12, 2019
US wants to deny failure in Afghanistan, says report
Afghanistan: Afghanistan has always ended the supremacy superpowers that invaded it, for instance, the Mughals, the British, and the Russians. The United States began its invasion of the country thinking…
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WorldOctober 17, 2019
Barack Obama backs Canada’s Trudeau for another term in office
Ottawa [Canada]: Former US President Barack Obama on Wednesday (local time) urged Canadians to back their incumbent Prime Minister Justin Trudeau for another term in office. The former US President…
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NewsAugust 6, 2019
Reject leaders whose words stoke hatred: Obama
Washington: Former US President Barack Obama has called on Americans to reject language from any of their leaders that feeds hatred or normalises racism. Without naming anyone, Obama said in a…
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NewsJuly 29, 2019
Obama shares African Americans’ letter slamming Trump for racism
Washington: In an unexpected endorsement, former US president Barack Obama has shared on his Twitter handle a letter by former members of his administration that rebuked racism in American politics and…
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WorldJuly 16, 2019
Trump: History of inflammatory and ‘racist’ statements
Washington: US President Donald Trump drew fresh accusations of racism Monday after he attacked four ethnic-minority Democrats in Congress, telling them to “go back” where they came from. While Trump…
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NewsJuly 14, 2019
Trump scrapped Iran N-deal to offend Obama: Report
London: US President Donald Trump scrapped the Iran nuclear deal to spite his predecessor Barack Obama, British media on Sunday quoted a leaked memo as saying. The memo, written by…
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