Barack Obama

President Barack Obama's plan to cut the carbon emissions of US power plants by up to 30 percent will leave America far short of its current pledges at UN climate talks, a study said Wednesday.
      
The United States promised in 2010 to reduce greenhouse gases by 17 percent by 2020 from 2005 levels.
      

President Barack Obama met Ukraine's president-elect Petro Poroshenko on June 4, in a show of U.S. support for Ukraine's right to chart its own future, before an encounter with Russia's Vladimir Putin.

Cyprus’s economic ties with Russia, which include about $100 billion in investments between the two countries, could be severed if the European Union applies a third round of sanctions over Russia’s role in the Ukrainian unrest, Cypriot Foreign Minister Ioannis Kasoulides said.

On a four-day trip to Europe, US President Barack Obama has assured Poland and its Eastern European neighbours that America remains committed to their security.

Amid concern in the region over the wider strategic implications of Russian involvement in the crisis in Ukraine, Obama said: “As friends and allies we stand united together.”

Foreign Affairs Minister Titus Corlatean on Wednesday will have a meeting with his Polish counterpart Radoslaw Sikorski, on the occasion of the visit to Poland over June 3-4, as a response to an invitation extended by Mr.

The US is planning a USD 1 B security fund to strengthen its military presence in Europe, the country's President Barack Obama said in Poland.

On Tuesday Obama started from Warsaw a visit to Europe which would later continue in Belgium and France.

Ukraine's newly elected President Petro Poroshenko will meet US President Barack Obama in Poland on Wednesday.

Poroshenko is in Warsaw for the celebration of the 25th anniversary of Poland's first post-socialist democratic elections. On Tuesday he will meet with Polish President Bronislaw Komorowski, Interfax revealed.

President Barack Obama on Tuesday unveiled a $1 billion US security plan for eastern Europe aimed at allaying fears over a resurgent Kremlin and the escalating pro-Russian uprising in ex-Soviet Ukraine.
      

President Traian Basescu on Tuesday and Wednesday will be in Warsaw to participate in celebrations of the 25th anniversary of Poland's democratic liberation, the Presidential Administration informs.

Taliban insurgents threatened Monday to attack Afghanistan's run-off presidential election, warning voters to stay away from polling stations for fear of injury or death.
      
Afghans are due to go to the polls on June 14 to choose whether Ashraf Ghani or Abdullah Abdullah should succeed President Hamid Karzai.