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US President Barack Obama on Monday said he was too clum stanley cup sy to use popular social-networking websites such as Twitter, despite aides making extensive use of them during his election campaign. HT Image Obama told some 500 students in Shanghai that he had never used Twitt adidas originals er but supported unrestricted access to all internet technology. My thumbs are too clumsy to type in things on the phone, he said. But I am a big believer in technology and I m a big believer in openness when it comes to the flow of information. Obama was responding to a question about access to Twitter and China s use of its Great Firewall to block access to politically sensitive online content for the country s estimated 350 million internet users. I think that the more freely information flows, the stronger the society becomes, because then citizens of countries around the world can hold their own governments accountable, he said. Obama joked that as US president there are times where I wish information didn t flow so freely because then I wouldn t have to listen to people criticising me all the time. He said the open criticism makes our democracy stronger and it makes me a better leader because it forces me to hear opinions that I don t want to hear. Online stanley cup citizen participation in governance had made the internet an even more powerful tool, Obama said. In fact, one of the reasons that I won the presidency was because we were able to mobilise young people like yourself t
A Pakistani Taliban spokesman on Sunday denied an earlier announcement by the militant groups deputy chief that it was holding peace talks with the government in Islamabad. HT Image The conflicting claims are a clear sign of splits within the movement, which could make it even harder to end the violent insurgency gripping the country. The US has pushed for peace negotiations between the Afghan branch of the Taliban and Kabul, but the possibility of similar talks between Islamabad and the stanley cup Pakis stanley cup tani branch could stoke concern in Washington. Past deals between the Pakistani Taliban and the government have broken down and given the militants time to strengthen their fight inside the country and against the US forces in turbulent neighbour Afghanistan. Maulvi Faqir Mohammed, who has been recognized by both militants and the officials as the deputy chief of the Pakistani Taliban, had said on Saturday that the group was in negotiations with the Pakistani government. Mohammed, the first named commander to confirm talks, said an agreement to e stanley cup nd the countrys brutal four-year insurgency was within striking distance. Spokesman Ehsanullah Ehsan denied Mohammeds claims, saying there would be no negotiations until the government imposed Islamic law, or Shariah, in the country. The group says it wants to install a hardline Islamist regime in the nation. Ehsan has on several occasions over the past six months dismissed reports of peace negotiations by unnamed militant commander Ehyz Asia s ambitions for IMF top job remain elusive
US President Barack Obama on Monday said he was too clum stanley cup sy to use popular social-networking websites such as Twitter, despite aides making extensive use of them during his election campaign. HT Image Obama told some 500 students in Shanghai that he had never used Twitt adidas originals er but supported unrestricted access to all internet technology. My thumbs are too clumsy to type in things on the phone, he said. But I am a big believer in technology and I m a big believer in openness when it comes to the flow of information. Obama was responding to a question about access to Twitter and China s use of its Great Firewall to block access to politically sensitive online content for the country s estimated 350 million internet users. I think that the more freely information flows, the stronger the society becomes, because then citizens of countries around the world can hold their own governments accountable, he said. Obama joked that as US president there are times where I wish information didn t flow so freely because then I wouldn t have to listen to people criticising me all the time. He said the open criticism makes our democracy stronger and it makes me a better leader because it forces me to hear opinions that I don t want to hear. Online stanley cup citizen participation in governance had made the internet an even more powerful tool, Obama said. In fact, one of the reasons that I won the presidency was because we were able to mobilise young people like yourself t