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U.S. President Joe Biden has frayed relations between Ankara and Washington “beyond repair” with his recent statement using the word “genocide” to describe the 1915 Armenian genocide by Turkey, Turkey’s state-run Anadolu Agency argued Tuesday. The Ottoman Empire enacted what is widely considered the first genocide of the modern world against Armenian, Assyrian Christian, and Greek populations in what is now Turkey. The Turkish government adamantly denies this occurred, claiming all those killed died in a war featuring violence on both sides, a claim not corroborated by historical

CLEVELAND, Ohio (AFP) – US President Barack Obama Wednesday admitted some of his policies were unpopular and had not revived the economy quickly enough, but sought to rekindle his frayed bond with American voters. "It's still fear versus hope, the past versus the future," Obama said in economically bereft Ohio, pleading with voters to chose "moving forward" with him, rather than "sliding backward" with Republicans. Obama, seeking to reframe the political debate ahead of November elections in which Democrats fear thumping losses, slammed his foes for pitching the economy into a historic crisis, and "moralizing" about the ballooning deficit. But...

<p>WASHINGTON -- Eager to overcome months of hurt feelings, Mexico's foreign minister began a two-day trip to Washington on Wednesday sounding, to put it diplomatically, contrite and ready to mend frayed relations.</p> <p>Fighting terrorism is Mexico's ``No. 1 priority,'' Foreign Secretary Luis Ernesto Derbez asserted, sounding a note certain to please in Washington.</p>