Spain has worked hard in the past to deal with North African migrants who courageous risky journeys and human traffickers, Obama said, while stressing that it was important for the U.S.to take its “share of Syrian refugees as part of this overall humanitarian effort”.
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President Barack Obama on Wednesday invited a Muslim Texas school boy who was arrested for bringing a home-made clock to school to come to the White House.
“Obviously, that’s gotten worse over the last several months and we agreed that this is going to require cooperation with all the European countries and the United States and the worldwide community”, he said.
Catalans will vote in a regional election on September 27 that local politicians are billing as a de facto referendum on independence.
President Obama won’t watch Wednesday’s Republican presidential debate, his spokesman said Tuesday.
“We welcome you with open arms”, Felipe replied.
So far plans include a bilateral meeting between the king and Obama while the first lady hosts the queen for tea and a tour of her the White House kitchen garden.
Earlier Tuesday, the king and queen visited President George Washington’s grave at Mount Vernon, and on Friday, they will visit St. Augustine, Fla. for the city’s 450th anniversary as the first European settlement in the New World.
The White House has been a revolving door of royals, with visits from Jordanian King Abdullah II, Prince William, King Willem-Alexander and Queen Maxima of the Netherlands, and Saudi Arabia’s King Salman – all in the past year.
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“The vulnerabilities are significant and they’re being exploited by not just state actors, but also non-state actors, criminal gangs, at an accelerated pace”, he said at a conference convened by the Business Roundtable, a Washington lobbying groups for corporate chief executives.
