Hanover, Germany–(ENEWSPF)–April 25, 2016.  President Obama, British Prime Minister David Cameron, French President François Hollande, German Chancellor Angela Merkel, and Italian Prime Minister Matteo Renzi met today for talks at Schloss Herrenhausen in Hannover, Germany.  The conversation covered the most urgent issues on the trans-Atlantic agenda.  The leaders agreed that the[Read More…]

Hannover, Germany–(ENEWSPF)–April 25, 2016 – 9:53 A.M. CEST MR. EARNEST:  Good morning, everybody.  It’s nice to see you.  We’ve got some special guests at the top of our briefing today.  I’m joined by Tom Donohue, who is the CEO of the United States Chamber of Commerce.  To his right is[Read More…]

“Given the magnitude of the destruction, Ecuadorians cannot safely return home.” Washington, DC –(ENEWSPF)–April 25, 2016.  Today, in a letter to President Obama, Rep. Luis V. Gutiérrez (D-IL) called for Temporary Protected Status for Ecuadorians living in the United States as Ecuador recovers from a devastating April 16 earthquake.  Temporary Protected[Read More…]

PITTSBURGH –(ENEWSPF)–April 25, 2016.  U.S. Sen. Bernie Sanders on Monday brought his White House campaign back to Pennsylvania, the biggest of five states in the Northeast and mid-Atlantic holding the next round of Democratic Party primary elections on Tuesday. Sanders was introduced at the University of Pittsburgh rally by U.S.[Read More…]

In Nepal, mountain infrastructure such as hydropower plants, roads, bridges and communication systems are at risk with climate change and more variability in water runoff. Photo: UNEP GRID Arendal/Lawrence Hislop GENEVA–(ENEWSPF)–25 April 2016 – A year after a series of major earthquakes devastated large areas of Nepal, the United Nations[Read More…]

RALEIGH, N.C. —(ENEWSPF)–April 25, 2016.  More than 150,000 signatures demanding the repeal of North Carolina’s anti-LGBT House Bill 2 were delivered to the office of Gov. Pat McCrory today by a collection of civil rights, faith, business, and advocacy groups as the state legislature returns for the first time since[Read More…]

Hannover, Germany–(ENEWSPF)–April 25, 2016 – 11:22 A.M. CEST PRESIDENT OBAMA:  Thank you so much.  (Applause.)  Thank you.  Guten tag!  It is wonderful to see all of you, and I want to begin by thanking Chancellor Merkel for being here.  (Applause.)  On behalf of the American people, I want to thank[Read More…]

Washington, DC–(ENEWSPF)–April 23, 2016 Hello, everybody.  Today, there are some 2.2 million people behind bars in America.  Millions more are on parole or probation.  All told, we spend 80 billion taxpayer dollars each year to keep people locked up.  Many are serving unnecessarily long sentences for non-violent crimes. Almost 60[Read More…]

London, England–(ENEWSPF)–April 22, 2016 – 5:00 P.M. BST PRIME MINISTER CAMERON:  Good afternoon, and welcome.  It’s great to welcome President Obama again, on his fifth visit to the United Kingdom. Barack has been President for more than seven years; I’ve been Prime Minister for nearly six years.  And our two[Read More…]

Worshippers gather at a mosque in Iraq. Photo: UNICEF/Giacomo Pirozzi (file) IRAQ–(ENEWSPF)–22 April 2016 – The most senior UN official in Iraq has strongly condemned a terrorist suicide bombing that targeted worshippers at a mosque in Radwaniya in southern Baghdad today, killing and injuring many innocent civilians. “Targeting innocent people[Read More…]