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Barack Obama
President of United State. -
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Barack Obama
President of United State -
Guantamo
Obama signed an executive order to close the detention center at Guantanamo Bay in Cuba. -
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Tour of the President Barack Obama
Tour of the Middle East, where he gave a historic speech at Cairo University in support of an approach to the Muslim world, and Europe, where he participated in the commemorations of the 65th anniversary of the Normandy landing. -
The president of the United States and Russia sign an agreement.
The US and Russia sign an agreement to reach a new treaty on reducing their nuclear weapons. -
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Nobel Peace Prize.
Obama is awarded the Nobel Peace Prize. -
National Catastrophe
The U.S. declares the crude oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico "national catastrophe" nine days earlier in Louisiana. -
the death of Osama bin Laden
Obama announced the death of Osama bin Laden, who was the mastermind of attacks on the Twin Towers of New York in 2001. -
Elections
Obama wins the election again. -
Obama chaired theUnited Nations Security Council.
Obama chaired the United Nations Security Council. A resolution was unanimously adopted there to stem the flow of foreign jihadists to Iraq and Syria.. -
Barack Obama's tears
Barack Obama could not hold back tears. The emotional moment came when the president remembered the score of children who died in the shooting at Sandy Hook School in Newtown, foreign Connecticut to Iraq and Syria. -
Obama traveled to the Japanese city
The President to traveled to tha Japanese to honor the victims of the first nuclear attack in history, conducted by the U.S. in 1945.