Obama: 10 days for the agreement on debt

Ten days to reach an agreement on debt. Barack Obama convenes again at the White House to Congressional leaders this afternoon after a meeting that lasted an hour and a half Sunday. The time for a solution to the impasse are shortened: August 2, when the United States could rise to the first default in history, is close by and after reaching an agreement can serve the technical time in Congress to increase the debt ceiling.

"Obama is a C *** ing head", and the reporter is fired

Barack Obama is a "c *** ing head". Mark Halperin, well-known face on TV and signature of the prestigious Time magazine, was broadcast on Morning Joe, where he said: "I think it was a kind of af *** head yesterday." Halperin did not appreciate the press conference of the President, who invited the Republicans to meet him raising taxes on the richest.

Obama: "The relationship with Israel is unshakable"

"The U.S. support to the welfare and security of Israel is unshakable." Barack Obama chooses to stage the conference of the Jewish lobby in the United States, AIPAC, in Washington to address the controversy of two days ago when the U.S. president after the bilateral meeting that was held in Washington with Israel declared that " there was a need to define the borders between Israel and the territories.

Israel rejected the plan Obamaper the Middle East

Israeli Prime Minister Benyamin Netanyahu replied by return of statements to the speech made yesterday by U.S. President Barack Obama: "Israel welcomes Obama's commitment to peace - Netanyahu said a few hours before his departure for Washington - but the boundaries of 1967 are indefensible and would leave large portions of the Israeli population in Judea and Samaria from the boundaries of Israel.

Two hundred deaths and the specter of Katrina tornadoes terrify the U.S. (and Obama)

At least 200 dead since the beginning of the wave of bad weather (but the number is expected to rise in all likelihood). Five states-Alabama, Mississippi, Georgia, Tennessee, Virginia - forced to count the dead and declare a state of emergency. It 'a disaster of vast proportions that has engulfed the southern United States.

"The death toll is expected to grow," says Robert Bentley, governor of Alabama, the state hardest hit. The television images reminiscent of roofless houses, shops gutted, people trapped under the rubble, prepared makeshift shelters in churches and gymnasiums. The Browns Ferry nuclear power plant, one of the largest in the world, on the banks of the Tennessee River, remained without electricity and working with emergency generators.

U.S., Panetta Petraeus and new heads of the CIA and the Pentagon. So Obama opens to the Republicans

Leon Panetta, now director of the CIA, the Pentagon. And General David Petraeus instead of Panetta, to head the intelligence agency. These are the choices that Barack Obama is preparing to announce this week, and he hopes to appease Republican opponents and strengthen control over the military and security organs of the United States.

The change was largely expected, set in motion by the will of Robert Gates, current Secretary of Defense (appointed by the previous administration, that of George W. Bush) to step down by summer 2011. The reshuffling at the top of the administration but will be even larger. Gen. John Allen, the current deputy commander of U.S.

Syria, arrested the leader of dissidentiCecchini the funeral, at least ten dead

Despite the opening last Thursday's President Bashar al-Assad, the tension remains high in Syria. Daniel Saud, head of the Committee for the Defence of Human Rights in Syria and leader of the dissidents, was taken overnight from his home in Banias and transferred to a secret location. To denounce the arrest and his lawyer, Khalil Maatouk, who blames the Mukabarat, the Syrian secret service.

And the activists were still engaged in on behalf of victims. Some snipers would open fire during the funeral Izraa Douma and demonstrators killed yesterday in clashes in Syria. At least ten of the victims, according to eyewitness accounts. "The funeral will be transformed into moments of protest, like its predecessors," he announced Syrian human rights activist.

Crisis, Obama: "Situation of contiamericani unsustainable"

The U.S. budget situation is unsustainable: it is necessary to cut spending for fiscal consolidation but the cuts are carried out with the "chisel" not the "machete" or the risk of another recession. President Barack Obama, the headquarters of Facebook, answers questions that come from websites and those of the public.

And, smiling at Mark Zuckerberg, the founder of the social network, said: "Both me and you must prepare to pay more taxes. I know - he says looking at one of the youngest billionaires in the world - for you it is not a problem. " A statement that seems to confirm once again the intention of Obama to let expire at the end of 2012 the tax cuts for the wealthiest.

Côte d'Ivoire, Gbagbo began after the arrest of an era of uncertainty

Image after the arrest of Laurent Gbagdo NEW YORK - The end of a nightmare, someone said. The beginning of an era of uncertainty, others might say. The disputed president of Côte d'Ivoire, Laurent Gbagbo, was arrested. The leader Alassane Ouattara is now considered the legitimate winner of last year's election.

Obama, my thoughts turned to the continent of his father, said that an African country "that is democratic and respects the rights of its people, will have a friend in the United States of America." So ended five months of tension and blood, opens a period with many unknowns. Gbagbo is a Christian, Muslim Ouattara.

Libya, Qaddafi's 30 thousand to the bunker

Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi in Tripoli alone controls his barracks-bunker of Bab al-Aziz, in which it resides. E 'contention the satellite broadcaster al-Jazeera, quoting media sources in the Libyan capital. The President of the Community of the Arab world in Italy (coma), in contact with witnesses in Libya, has said: "About 30 thousand protestors are concentrated in Algeria Square and look towards the bunkers that Gaddafi is located in the Bab el Zizia about two kilometers.

Libya, on Monday in Geneva UN Council sends Barack Obama Hillary Clinton

"Italy can not do this alone." Roberto Maroni has expressed concerns about the situation in Libya after the meeting in Brussels with other EU ministers of the Interior. "Italy - said the head of the Interior Ministry - can deal with the emergency caused by the immigrant riots in North Africa but not for long." Italy, he added, "fears of a catastrophic humanitarian crisis." The Defence Minister, Ignazio La Russa, has intervened in an attempt to stop the controversy about the provision of weapons by Italy.

Middle East crisis, the U.S. look to Bahrain. The strategy is an attack on Iran

It 's a difficult obstacle course that the administration of Barack Obama is following in those hours. The riots in the Middle East into question decades of American foreign policy and open scenarios currently not easily predictable. "The United States condemns the use of violence by governments against peaceful protesters," said Obama, while protests, accidents, deaths take to the streets of Libya, Yemen, Bahrain.

Egypt, Wikileaks: "From a secret U.S. support leaders facing"

The United States, while supporting the allied government of Hosni Mubarak, at least three years secretly supporting dissidents who were behind the revolt of the square in recent days as part of a plan to promote a "regime change" in favor of democracy in Cairo in 2011: what is revealed today the site of the British newspaper The Telegraph, quoting a secret diplomatic documents published by Wikileaks site.