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U.S. pressing China on import surge causes: USTR

Reuters - Thu Oct 22, 2:00 PM

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The United States is pressing China to change policies that overfuel its exports and led to President Barack Obama slapping duties on Chinese-made tires last month, a U.S. trade official said on Thursday.

  • House Majority Whip James Clyburn (L) and Rep. Chris Van Hollen (C) listen while House Majority Leader Steny Hoyer (R) speak to the press after a caucus meeting with President Barack Obama on Capitol Hill. Obama, fighting for his top domestic priority, urged fellow Democrats in the House of Representatives to 'vote yes' Saturday on the broadest US health care overhaul in a half-century. Photo:Brendan Smialowski/AFP
    Obama pleads for health care overhaul, vote looms AFP - 1 hour, 24 minutes ago

    WASHINGTON (AFP) - President Barack Obama, fighting for his top domestic priority, urged fellow Democrats in the House of Representatives to "vote yes" Saturday on the broadest US health care overhaul in a half-century.

  • US President Barack Obama speaks to the press at the White House in Washington, DC. With unemployment fast becoming one of Obama's biggest domestic challenges, focus is shifting from 'too-big-to-fail' manufacturing and financial giants to struggling small businesses. Photo:Jim Watson/AFP
    Small businesses on front line in Obama's jobs fight AFP - 2 hours, 6 minutes ago

    WASHINGTON (AFP) - With unemployment fast becoming one of US President Barack Obama's biggest domestic challenges, focus is shifting from "too-big-to-fail" manufacturing and financial giants to struggling small businesses.

  • A U.S. flag flies at half staff on top of the White House in Washington after President Barack Obama ordered them lowered in honor of the victims of the mass shooting at Fort Hood army base in Texas, November 6, 2009. REUTERS/Jim Young
    Obamas to attend Fort Hood memorial Tuesday Reuters - Sat Nov 7, 2:09 PM

    WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Barack Obama and his wife, Michelle, will attend a memorial service in Fort Hood, Texas, on Tuesday for victims of a mass shooting.

  • Major Nidal Malik Hasan, the U.S. Army doctor identified by authorities as the suspect in a mass shooting at the U.S. Army post in Fort Hood, Texas, is seen in this undated handout photo from a pdf file of the U.S. Government Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences downloaded on November 6, 2009. Investigators searched for the motive on Friday behind the mass shooting at a sprawling U.S. Army base in Texas, in which the Army psychiatrist trained to treat war wounded is suspected of killing 13 people. REUTERS/Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences/Handout
    U.S. Army gunman's act "impossible": grandfather Reuters - Sat Nov 7, 1:55 PM

    AL-BIREH, West Bank (Reuters) - The grandfather of a U.S. Army psychiatrist accused of shooting dead 13 people and wounding 30 others at a base in Texas said on Saturday he found it impossible to believe his grandson had committed the act.

  • Singapore skyline in January 2009. The United States expects the leaders of all ASEAN nations to attend a summit in Singapore next week, a US diplomat said Saturday, setting the stage for a possible meeting between Barack Obama and leaders of Myanmar's ruling junta. Photo:Roslan Rahman/AFP
    US expects all ASEAN leaders at summit AFP - Sat Nov 7, 12:34 PM

    MANILA (AFP) - The United States expects the leaders of all ASEAN nations to attend a summit in Singapore next week, a US diplomat said Saturday, setting the stage for a possible meeting between Barack Obama and leaders of Myanmar's ruling junta.


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