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Obama renews calls for nuclear reductions

US President Barack Obama  waves to spectators before he  delivers a speech in front of the Brandenburg Gate  at Pariser Platz in Berlin, Germany,  Wednesday June 19, 2013. At right stands German chancellor Angela Merkel.   On the second day of his visit to Germany, Obama met with German President Joachim Gauck and Chancellor Angela Merkel before delivering a speech at Brandenburg Gate. Atop of the gate the Quadriga sculpture.  ( AP Photo/Michael Kappeler,Pool)

BERLIN (AP) — Appealing 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 our time.”

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Obama opens 24-hour trip to Germany

BERLIN (AP) — President Barack Obama is opening a 24-hour visit to Germany, the culmination of which will be a speech Wednesday at Berlin’s iconic Brandenburg Gate.

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G8 exposes rift among leaders on Syria

President Barack Obama and Russian President Vladimir Putin get up to leave after their meeting in Enniskillen, Northern Ireland, Monday, June 17, 2013. Obama and Putin discussed the ongoing conflict in Syria during their bilateral meeting. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)

ENNISKILLEN, Northern Ireland (AP) — Deep differences over Syria’s fierce civil war clouded a summit of world leaders Monday, with Russian President Vladimir Putin defiantly rejecting calls from the U.S., Britain and France to halt his political and military support for Syrian leader Bashar Assad’s regime.

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