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    Obama tells US to embrace time of 'extraordinary change'

     President Barack Obama told Americans nervous about terror and a changing economy that they should not fear the future, in a farewell State of the Union address that drew sharp contrast with Republicans, AFP reports.

    Hailing an epoch of "extraordinary change" that is laden with risk and opportunity, Obama called for a new "moonshot" to cure cancer, a shift away from dirty energy and for a thaw in the last remnants of the Cold War by ending the embargo on Cuba.