CHICAGO, United States (AFP) - US President Barack Obama spent weekend summits trying to end one war in Afghanistan, prevent another in Iran and save the global economy, knowing that each crisis could impact on his reelection hopes. Foreign policy rarely decides US elections, but sometimes the imperatives of ...

Camp David, Md.mdash; The United States and other members of the Group of Eight industrial nations agree that Europe#39;s financial crisis must be addressed with a mix of growth and austerity measures, President Barack Obama said Saturday as leaders gathered for a shirt-sleeve discussion that also will cover world concerns about ups and downs in oil prices.

President Barack Obama on Friday said the United States has a quot;moral imperativequot; to lead the fight against hunger and malnutrition in Africa despite shrinking national budgets around the world.Obama ...

WASHINGTON, May 17 (UPI) -- President Barack Obama told congressional leaders he would not allow a replay of last summer#39;s debt-ceiling fight that nearly put the United States in default.

President Barack Obama said Saturday the United States had suffered too much pain to turn the economy over to Republican Mitt Romney, as he fired up his first official re-election rally.