Posts Tagged ‘US’

US Tells Israel Iran is One Year from Atomic Bomb

metro-reality.com – The United States has persuaded Israel that Iran would take one year or longer to build a nuclear weapon, dimming the prospects of a preemptive strike on Iran’s nuclear facilities, The New York Times said late Thursday.

“We think that they have roughly a year… Continue reading

With BP Spill under Control, US Looks at Drill Ban

metro-reality.com – Now that the worst offshore oil spill in U.S. history has effectively been stopped, the White House is considering an early end to its moratorium on deepwater drilling.

But four months after the explosion of the Deepwater Horizon, regulators have only started to make good… Continue reading

NBA Tops US Leagues in Twitter Followers

metro-reality.com – More than two million people follow the NBA on Twitter, a record for any US sport league on the social networking site, the league announced Monday. NBA followers push the league ahead of the National Football League, which has almost 1.7 million followers on Twitter, or Major League Baseball, which needs… Continue reading

Obama Salutes Promised End of US Combat in Iraq

metro-reality.com – Nearing a milestone in the long and divisive Iraq war, President Barack Obama  on Monday hailed this month’s planned withdrawal of all U.S. combat troops — “as promised and on schedule” — as a major success despite deep doubts about the Iraqis’ ability to police and govern their country.

Portraying… Continue reading

World’s Biggest Airline Merger Gets Green Light

metro-reality.com – European competition enforcers on Tuesday cleared a merger between US carriers United and Continental that will create the world’s biggest airline.
The European Commission “concluded that the transaction would not significantly impede effective competition” in Europe, where the US airlines service a combined 35 destinations.
The new airline will fly under… Continue reading

Another George Bush

metro-reality.com – Being called George Bush is not the most obvious route to elected office in modern America, given the opprobrium heaped on the 43rd US president since he left the White House.  But a third bearer of that name has just made a start towards a career in politics: George Prescott Bush… Continue reading

US court: Asylum to Obama’s African Aunt Granted

A U.S. immigration court has granted asylum to President Barack Obama’s African aunt, allowing her to stay in the country and setting her on the road to citizenship after years of legal wrangling, her attorneys announced Monday.

The decision was made by a judge in U.S. Immigration Court in Boston and mailed out Friday. It comes three months after Kenya native Zeituni Onyango, the half-sister of Obama’s late father, testified at a closed hearing in Boston.

People who seek asylum must show that they face persecution in their homeland on the basis of religion, race, nationality, political opinion or membership in a social group.… Continue reading

Obama Willing to Visit Hiroshima and Nagasaki

Metro-reality.com, WASHINGTON: United States President Barack Obama said he would will to visit cities that have imposed a nuclear bomb, Hiroshima and Nagasaki, when he was still in power. However, the visit did not done when he made a visit to Japan this weekend. So he said in an interview with NHK television, Tuesday (10/11).… Continue reading

President Obama: U.S. Economy Recover

Metro-reality.com, Washington DC: Referring to reports last week about the gross domestic product (GDP), President Barack Obama said the United States has recovered from deep recession. The proof, hundreds of thousands of jobs have been create through massive investments. President Obama said also, for the first time in more than a year – faster than in the previous two years, the U.S. economy growing again.… Continue reading