Policy Challenges stories:
Obama peace quest flounders in Mideast quicksand
Oct 23rd, 2009 - Reuters
BEIRUT (Reuters) - U.S. President Barack Obama's high-priority Middle East peace drive has run into predictable quicksands, even as other foreign policy challenges in Iran...Obama urges spirit of compromise on healthcare
Oct 3rd, 2009 - Reuters
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Barack Obama called on the U.S. Congress on Saturday to be willing to compromise on a plan to overhaul the U.S. healthcare system now that a key Senate committee has wrapped up work on its proposal.
Obama prepares for week of foreign policy challenges
Sep 21st, 2009 - CNN
(CNN) -- Fights over the economy and health care may be dominating the headlines at home, but President Obama is turning his sights abroad this week. Starting Tuesday...
Japan's new First Lady Miyuki Hatoyama: 'I went to Venus in a UFO'
Sep 3rd, 2009 - Times Online
Japan’s new prime minister, Yukio Hatoyama, faces formidable foreign policy challenges in dealing with an expansionist China, a nuclear armed North Korea and a sinister Russia...
Obama's anti-terrorism policies hit walls
May 20th, 2009 - USA Today
WASHINGTON Two days after his inauguration, Barack Obama signed executive orders banning harsh interrogation techniques and requiring that military detention facilities at Cuba's Guantanamo Bay be closed within a year. Four months later...



