President Barack Obama will hold a traditional year-end news conference today before leaving on a two-week family vacation to Hawaii, the White House said. Obama is preparing to take questions from reporters at the White House on December 18, before starti… He says some of the reporting about the San Bernardino shooters’ posting on social media as they carried out the shooting earlier this month “may have gotten garbled”.
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Argentina’s Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner exits in handover spat
Official figures suggest inflation is running at almost 15% but independent analysts put it much higher, at nearly 25%. Incoming Senate speaker Federico Pinedo, the acting president since midnight, administrated the oath of office.
Obama will seek to put the finishing touches on legacy items like his plan to curb US carbon emissions and the Trans-Pacific Partnership trade deal, while trying to made headway on criminal justice reforms, the officials told reporters on Thursday.
Foreign experts attend study of Russian jet’s black box
Ankara says it used force in response to a 17-second violation of its airspace and was fully justified in doing so. { Russia Putin said an analysis of black box would help determine downed jet’s flight path .
Obama held morning meetings prior to his planned remarks, and later he will depart the nation’s capital for Hawaii, where he will spend his Christmas vacation.
South Africa: 3 finance ministers in 1 week hits currency
This allegedly brought the anger of the airline’s chairwoman, Dudu Myeni, known as a close ally of Zuma. The ANC continues to neglect the needs of South Africa as it hurries to defend one man: Jacob Zuma.
At his final news conference of the year, Obama said Friday that the crisis in Syria could have been blunted if Assad had recognized that he had lost legitimacy as a leader and had stepped down several years ago.
At a White House news conference Friday, Obama said “lawless areas” in the Middle East must be eliminated as havens for the extremists.
The president is scheduled to deliver his last State of the Union on January 12, less than three weeks before Americans begin voting in the presidential primaries.
The signing of the budget bill caps months of negotiations and averts a government shutdown. Those plans likely include closing the terror detention center at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, and executive actions on gun control.
Crediting lawmakers with ending the year on a “high note”, Obama offered rare if muted praise for a Congress that more often than not has obstructed his legislative agenda. “And five years later, I was right”.
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“There’s no better way for this president to preserve the progress of the past seven years than to elect a Democrat to replace him”, the official said.
