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Obama to restart Military Tribunals for Guantanamo detainees, Detainees to have more rights

President Barack Obama will resume military tribunals for some terrorism suspects held at the U.S. prison camp in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, while also giving prisoners new legal rights, an administration official said. Obama ordered a 120-day halt to the war crimes tribunals hours after taking office in January. His administration will announce details of the [...]

Dr. Thomas Frieden Nominated by Barack Obama as director of CDC

Reporting from Washington — President Barack Obama today named Dr. Thomas Frieden, currently commissioner of the New York City Health Department, to serve as director of the federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Dr. Rich Besser, who has served as an unusually high-profile acting CDC director throughout weeks of government response to the emergence [...]

AIG Officials intelligence on bonuses

When the American International Group chief executive Edward M. Liddy returned to Washington to handle Congress today, there were rumors that the federal officials were known of the company’s recent bonus payments including the inflammatory percentage. If documents are to be checked, it shows that senior officials at the Federal Reserve Bank of New York [...]

Barack Obama Wants Pakistan and Afghanistan To Better Coordinate Their Actions Against Taliban

The Taliban militants are growing in numbers, and in strength, and they could jeopardize U.S. interests therefore President Barack Obama will put pressure on Pakistani President Asif Ali Zardari when they meet at the White House later today. It is said that Obama is concerned that the Taliban fighters have grown much in strength because [...]