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Secret Service embarrassed by prostitution claims

President Barack Obama and Secretary of State Hillary Clinton attended the VI Summit of the Americas in Cartagena de Indias, Colombia. Photo: Eitan Abramovich / AFP.
Eleven members of the Secret Service who had been dispatched to Colombia ahead of President Barack Obama‘s visit had to be sent back to the U.S. after it emerged they had invited prostitutes to their rooms at the Hotel Caribe in Cartagena.
White House denies bunker-buster bomb agreement

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu told President Barack Obama on Monday that
Israel had still not decided whether to attack Iran. Photo: AFP.
The White House on Thursday denied offering Israel bunker-busting laser-guided bombs to attack nuclear installations in Iran. The denial followed reports in the Israeli press that Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu had convinced President Obama to supply his country with bunker-busting bombs in order to attack Iran’s underground nuclear sites.