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Cuba seeks normalization with USCLAUDIA TORRENS AP 09/26/2011 | Obama visits family roots in IrelandJeff Mason and Padraic Reuters 05/23/2011 |
 Cuba wants to re-establish relations with the United States with a focus on humanitarian and other issues, Foreign Minister Bruno Rodriguez said Monday. |  President Barack Obama declared solidarity between the United States and economically struggling Ireland with a symbolic gulp of beer and a rousing speech, telling a huge Dublin crowd on Monday: "Your best days are still ahead." |
US official: Obama invites Libyan rebels to DC AP 05/23/2011 | Obama: U.S. must 'change approach' to bridge division with Muslims BBC News 05/19/2011 |
 The top U.S. diplomat for the Middle East says President Barack Obama has invited the Libyan rebels' National Transitional Council to open an office in Washington D.C., but he stopped short of formal recognition. |  US President Barack Obama says the US has opened a "new chapter" in diplomacy after the Arab Spring uprisings. In a speech at the state department, Mr Obama said the future of the US was bound to the Middle East by forces of economics, security, history and fate. |
Obama to Renew Muslim OutreachJAY SOLOMON And CAROL E. LEE The Wall Street Journal 05/11/2011 | |
 President Barack Obama is preparing a fresh outreach to the Muslim world in coming days, senior U.S. officials say, one that will ask those in the Middle East and beyond to reject Islamic militancy in the wake of Osama bin Laden's death and embrace a new era of relations with the U.S. |  Secretary of Defense Robert Gates said that Libya did not pose a threat to the United States before the U.S. began its military campaign against the North African country. |
In sharp reversal, U.S. agrees to rebuke Israel in Security CouncilColum Lynch Foreign Policy 02/16/2011 | US spy chief nominee warns of North Korea 'direct attacks' BBC News 07/21/2010 |
 The U.S. informed Arab governments Tuesday that it will support a U.N. Security Council statement reaffirming that the 15-nation body "does not accept the legitimacy of continued Israeli settlement activity," a move aimed at avoiding the prospect of having to veto a stronger Palestinian resolution calling the settlements illegal. |  North Korea's sinking of a South Korean warship may herald a "dangerous new period", the nominee to be US director of national intelligence has warned. |
White House shifts Afghanistan strategy towards talks with TalibanEwen MacAskill, Simon Tisdall The Guardian 07/19/2010 | U.S. official resigns over Afghan warKaren DeYoung The Washington Post 10/27/2009 |
 The White House is revising its Afghanistan strategy to embrace the idea of negotiating with senior members of the Taliban through third parties – a policy to which it had previously been lukewarm. |  When Matthew Hoh joined the Foreign Service early this year, he was exactly the kind of smart civil-military hybrid the administration was looking for to help expand its development efforts in Afghanistan. |
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