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Dmitry Medvedev slams 'Hollywood' Mitt Romney for calling Russia 'number 1 foe'

March 27, 2012 12:37
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Such statements "smack of Hollywood," Medvedev said today. "It's 2012, not the middle of the 1970s."

Obama tests his sway over North Korea

March 25, 2012 08:09
Barack Obama stood at "freedom's frontier" and peered into the bleak North Korean countryside on Sunday, as world leaders arrived in the South Korean capital Seoul to discuss the growing threat from the regime's nuclear weapons program and a forthcoming missile launch.
March 15, 2012 07:17
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Obama and Cameron meeting: British pundits' take

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British Prime Minister David Cameron seems a bit overcome by it all during last night's White House State Dinner. British pundits are keeping an eagle eye out for signs that Cameron is succumbing to proximity to the imperial power. (Alex Wong/AFP/Getty Images)

When British Prime Ministers visit American Presidents pithy analysis flows among the British punditocracy like West Coast wines at a State Dinner.

Most of this comment is focused on the current state of the most over-used cliche in British journalism: "the Special Relationship."

A lot of the speculation focuses on it's dangers: "Is it more "Fatal Attraction" than "Love, Actually?" asked Channel 4's veteran Washington correspondent Matt Frei.

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March 14, 2012 08:56
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British unemployment up … again

President Barack Obama and British Prime Minister David Cameron have a lot of things on their agenda today, including the world economy. But I doubt the President will be so rude as to ask the PM about the latest unemployment figures in Britain.

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