US president-elect Barack Obama reiterated on Monday that all American combat troops would be withdrawn from Iraq in 16 months, even while residual forces could remain longer.
President-elect Barack Obama announced on Monday that Robert Gates would remain as defense secretary, making President Bush's Pentagon chief his own as he seeks to wind down the US role in Iraq. Obama picked former campaign rival Hillary Rodham Clinton as secretary of state.
It was meant to be a familiarisation trip with the incoming administration of US president-elect Barack Obama. But in the wake of the Mumbai terror attacks, terrorism will dominate the talks of Foreign Secretary Shivshankar Menon with key figures of the transition team in the US on Monday.
President-elect Barack Obama planned to nominate Sen Hillary Rodham Clinton as his secretary of state on Monday, transforming a once-bitter political rivalry into a high-level strategic and diplomatic partnership.
US President-elect Barack Obama has expressed sorrow for the victims of the attacks on Mumbai and said the militants who staged the assault would not defeat India's "great democracy" or the global coalition arrayed against them.- US President-elect Barack Obama spends sleepless nights worrying about the fate of America in the face of a looming recession, with a "lame duck" in charge of the country.
The Mumbai attacks are being viewed by some in the transition team here as President-elect Obama's first major national security challenge that could draw him into the Kashmir dispute sooner than he might like.
US President-elect Barack Obama has taken his boldest step yet to usher in a new era of interactive government, opening a public forum for suggestions on the website of his transition team.- Obama has assembled a national security brain trust populated by graybeard establishment figures with decades of combined experience and even a few medals.
- The economy growing weaker, President-elect Barack Obama said on Tuesday that recovery efforts will trump deficit concerns when he takes office in January. Yet he pledged a "page-by-page, line-by-line" budget review to root out unneeded spending.
US Defense Secretary Robert Gates has agreed to stay in his job when president-elect Barack Obama takes office in January, with an announcement expected next week, reports said late on Tuesday.
The federal government's ledger has gone from a surplus just seven years ago to facing a prospect of a $1 trillion deficit next year.
President-elect Barack Obama and Congressional Democrats are laying the groundwork for quick enactment in January of a giant, two-year economic rescue package that will total about half a trillion dollars.
President George W Bush and Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert said that the Middle East peace process, which has so far failed to yield results, will continue after the two lame-duck leaders leave office.- During his presidential campaign, Barack Obama promised to repeal President George W Bush's tax cuts for the wealthy ahead of their scheduled expiration in 2011.
US president-elect Barack Obama has pledged to work with global leaders to stem the ever-widening financial crisis, as Washington and Britain moved to shore up their ailing economies.- Citing an "economic crisis of historic proportions," President-elect Barack Obama urged Congress to pass a costly, job-creating stimulus bill as quickly as possible.
- Indian American, Nick Rathod has been appointed director to the Office of Inter-governmental Affairs. Rathod is the national outreach director of South Asians for Obama and one of its founding members.
President-elect Barack Obama named a heavyweight economic team on Monday and vowed to put a decisive stamp on efforts to rescue the world's largest economy.
The US government announced on Monday a new $20 billion lifeline for banking giant Citigroup ahead of the unveiling of president-elect Barack Obama's economic team.
Upcoming British singer Leona Lewis is planning to join rappers Jay-Z and Beyonce to sing for US president-elect Barack Obama at an inauguration function Jan 20 in Washington DC.- US President-elect Barack Obama and his Democratic allies in Congress are preparing plans for a second massive economic stimulus program that could total as much as $700 billion over the next two years, The Washington Post reported on Monday.
- US president-elect Barack Obama inherits the in-box from hell, but an all-points crisis like the present one also creates opportunities for radical change that do not exist in normal times.
Russian President Dmitry Medvedev has said he believed US president-elect Barack Obama could change Washington's position over a hotly contested plan for a US missile defence shield in Eastern Europe.
New York Federal Reserve president Timothy Geithner has been selected to become US Treasury Secretary amid the global financial crisis, a key advisor to president-elect Barack Obama said on Sunday.
