US President Bush and Russian President Putin have been in a war of words this week, with Bush suggesting that the Iranian nuclear program could be the lynchpin for launching World War III.

Gordon Johndroe, a White House spokesman, said President Bush "reiterated his opposition to the Armenian Genocide resolution, the passage of which would be harmful to U.S. relations with Turkey."

President George W Bush on Wednesday raised the specter of a "nuclear holocaust" in the Middle East if Israel's arch-foe Iran gets atomic weapons, and vowed he would not let that happen.

U.S. President George W. Bush and his Russian counterpart, Vladimir Putin, are due to begin a two-day summit at the Bush family's oceanside compound in Kennebunkport, Maine.

German Chancellor Angela Merkel feels the G8 stand a good chance of finding a joint position on climate protection issues. That is what she stressed after bilateral meetings with US President George W. Bush and other Heads of State and Government.

US President George W. Bush and thousands of dignitaries welcomed Britain's Queen Elizabeth II to the White House Monday with an honor guard and 21-gun salute ahead of a lavish state dinner.

Congress failed to override President George W Bush's veto of legislation requiring the withdrawal of US troops from Iraq, a defeat for anti-war Democrats that triggered immediate work on new legislation to pay for the war. Wednesday's vote in the House was 222-203, 62 shy of the two-thirds majority needed to override a veto.

President George W. Bush vetoed legislation to pull US troops out of Iraq in a showdown with Congress over whether the unpopular and costly war should end or escalate. In only the second veto of his presidency, Bush rejected legislation that would have required the first US combat troops to be withdrawn from Iraq by 1st Oct with a goal of a complete pullout six months later.

US leader George W Bush is preparing to exercise his presidential veto for only the second time since the move has been prompted by the approval by Congress of a bill linking war funding to a timetable for withdrawal of troops from Iraq.

A top United States lawmaker and a leading war critic has held out the possibility of the Democrats impeaching the President George W Bush stressing that this is perhaps one way of influencing a President.

The top U.S. general in Iraq, David Petraeus, says the situation in that country is "very tough." Petraeus told reporters at the Pentagon today that the U.S. war effort faces the most complex challenge he has ever seen as a soldier.