"It is an agreement that -- even though we have a little bit of a pause in American leadership -- is giving our children a fighting chance," Obama told a symposium organised by the Hindustan Times newspaper. "The thing I love about America and I suspect the thing you love about India is just this cacophony of life and it throws up all kinds of variety," Obama said in response to one attempt to force a comment on Trump. "There are political trends in American that I don't agree with and abide by but I recognise as part of a running thread in American life. "The two-term leader said he has become "obsessed" with the way news is handled and consumed, particularly by the young. "This poses a great danger because democracies can't function if we can't agree on a basic baseline of what is true and what is false."

Source: Egypt Today December 01, 2017 08:48 UTC