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Obama mocks Putin's bare chest in charity dinner speech

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Last Updated : May 05 2014 | 10:50 AM IST

Barack Obama joked about his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin's bare chest during his White House Correspondents' Dinner speech.

In the face of a continuing Cold-War-style standoff with Moscow over the crisis in Ukraine, the 44th President of the United States of America poked fun at Putin's bare chest and mentioned that its much talked about by Mike Huckabee and Sean Hannity, Sky News reported.

Obama also mocked the 61-year-old Russian politician's chances of winning the Nobel Peace Prize, Obamacare and the website woes that turned the launch of the health programme into a fiasco, at the annual black-tie event.

The Correspondents' Association, which represents the White House press corps, celebrated its 100th anniversary this year.

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First Published: May 05 2014 | 10:17 AM IST

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