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Obama defends NSA digital surveillance programs
BERLIN -- President Obama tried to reassure skeptical Europeans about sweeping U.S. digital surveillance programs expanded under his watch, arguing that the programs are circumscribed, overseen by a court and effective. "What I can say to everybody in...
Tags: Civil Rights, Angela Merkel, Computer Networking and Internet, Justice and Rights, Germany
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Bono Bonds With Michelle Obama & Kids For Lunch
He’s Irish, he’s a rock star, and he’s committed to ending poverty, so it’s not surprising U2 singer Bono was able to coax First Lady Michelle Obama and daughters Sasha and Malia to join him and his wife, Ali, for lunch while...
Tags: U2 (music group), Summits, Republic of Ireland, Barack Obama
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Obama renews calls for nuclear reductions
BERLIN (AP) — Issuing an appeal for a new citizen activism in the free world, President Barack Obama renewed his call Wednesday to reduce U.S. and Russian nuclear stockpiles and to confront climate change, a danger he called "the global threat of...
Tags: Syrian Civil War (2011 - present ), Government, Pakistan, Nuclear Weapons, John F. Kennedy
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Obama welcomes Taliban assent to Afghanistan talks
ENNISKILLEN, Northern Ireland -- Calling for an “Afghan-led, Afghan-owned peace process,” President Obama expressed cautious optimism about the Taliban’s surprise agreement to negotiate directly with U.S. officials toward ending America&...
Tags: U.S. Military, Hamid Karzai, Kabul (Afghanistan), Doha (Qatar), Mohammed Omar
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G-8 leaders support political solution to Syria
BEIRUT — Global economic leaders, including the United States and Russia, reiterated support Tuesday for a political solution to the Syrian civil war, backing a plan for a transitional government hammered out last year in Geneva. The contentious...
Tags: Wars and Interventions, Syrian Civil War (2011 - present ), Biological and Chemical Weapons, United Nations, White House
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G-8 leaders vow to crack down on tax evasion
LONDON — With many of their governments strapped for cash, leaders at a summit of rich nations vowed Tuesday to crack down on tax cheats by swapping financial information and exposing companies that set up elaborate structures to hide their profits....Tags: Summits, United Kingdom, Google Inc., Starbucks Corp., G20
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LETTER: Doesn't Want To Pay For Wife To Accompany President
Why is it necessary that Michelle Obama travel to Northern Ireland with the president? What can she add to the G8 Summit? Oh wait....another vacation for Michelle on the citizens of the U.S. Wendy Murray, MarlboroughTags: Summits
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Snowden a fool, not a spy
It would make things so much easier for everyone if Edward Snowden were working for China. And that's certainly a possibility. His decision to flee to Hong Kong — a Chinese vassal — was an odd one, given that China is hardly a bulwark of...Tags: Edward Snowden, U.S. Congress, Vatican City, Culture, Arts and Culture
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Obama to call for U.S.-Russia nuclear arms reduction
BERLIN -- Standing at a symbol of democracy’s triumph over communism, President Obama will announce his hopes to further reduce the U.S. nuclear arsenal as he tries to outline a vision for a post-Cold War "national and citizen activism," officials...
Tags: Angela Merkel, Germany, Nuclear Weapons, Treaties, Berlin (Germany)
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Obama calls U.S.-Taliban talks agreement 'important first step'
KABUL, Afghanistan — For more than a decade, the U.S. and the Taliban have met almost exclusively on the battlefield of America's longest war. In coming days, both sides said, they will sit down at a negotiating table to discuss ending the bloodshed...
Tags: U.S. Military, White House, U.S. Senate Committee on Foreign Relations, Qatar, Mohammed Omar
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