The US president has blamed the massive oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico on “a breakdown of responsibility” at energy giant BP as he unveiled a commission to investigate the disaster.
Barack Obama, in his weekly radio and internet address on Saturday, also said offshore oil drilling could only go forward if there were assurances [...]
Barack Obama, the US president, has formed an independent presidential commission to probe the oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico.
Two-term Florida governor and former senator Bob Graham, a Democrat, and former administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency William Reilly, a Republican, will serve as co-chairmen of the seven-member body, Obama said [...]
Barack Obama, the US president, has condemned what he said was the “ridiculous spectacle” of oil company executives trading blame over the Gulf of Mexico oil spill.
In his sternest comments yet on the issue, Obama said he would not tolerate any more “fingerpointing” and denounced what he said had been a “cosy relationship” between oil [...]
Barack Obama, the US president, has said ties with Afghanistan remain strong and backed the Afghan government’s efforts to engage with Taliban fighters who give up violence.
Speaking at a joint news conference with Hamid Karzai, the Afghan president, at the White House, Obama said he supported Kabul’s efforts to “open the door to Taliban, who [...]
Barack Obama, the US president, has vowed that “no effort” will be spared in attempts to tackle a massive oil slick threatening the coast of the Gulf of Mexico.
Shortly after arriving in the US state of Lousiana, one of four that could be affected by the spill, Obama defended his government’s response to the potential [...]
Barack Obama, the US president, has ordered all new domestic offshore oil drilling to be put on hold until the current disaster has been fully investigated.
Obama said on Friday that the government had dispatched teams to the coast “to inspect all deep water rigs and platforms to address safety concerns”, after oil from a massive [...]
The US president has renewed his commitment to a “new beginning” with the Muslim world, vowing no easing in US efforts to promote Middle East peace, curb violence and boost economic development.
Seeking to build on his outreach to Muslims in a speech in Cairo last June, Barack Obama has used the Presidential Summit on Entrepreneurship [...]
Barack Obama, the US president, has called on Wall Street business leaders to get behind his plans to reform the US financial industry.
Outlining his plans in a speech in New York on Thursday, Obama said the proposed reforms would help protect both consumers and investors, and would restore trust to the system.
He also chastised the [...]
Barack Obama has hit back at critics of his controversial spending plans for Nasa by saying that he aims to send US astronauts into Mars orbit by the mid-2030s.
The US president was speaking to Nasa employees at the Kennedy Space Center in Florida, where there are concerns thousands of jobs could be lost as the [...]
The US president has won pledges from world leaders to work together to prevent groups such as al-Qaeda from getting their hands on nuclear weapons, steps Barack Obama said would make the world safer.
The final statement from an unprecedented 47-nation nuclear security summit in Washington DC promised greater efforts to block “non-state actors” from obtaining [...]