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Liveticker: So l�uft Barack Obamas Tag in Berlin

spiegel.de — Liveticker +++: Obamas beginnen ihren Tag in Berlin Barack Obamas zweiter Tag in Berlin hat begonnen - das Programm des US-Präsidenten ist voll gepackt: Besuch bei Bundespräsident Gauck, Treffen mit Kanzlerin Merkel - und am Nachmittag dann seine mit Spannung erwartete Rede am Brandenburger Tor. Verfolgen Sie die Ereignisse im Liveticker.

Obama to renew calls for nuclear reductions

bigstory.ap.org — BERLIN (AP) - President Barack Obama on Wednesday will renew his call to reduce the world's nuclear stockpiles, including a proposed one-third reduction in U.S. and Russian arsenals, a senior administration official said.Obama will make his case during a speech at Berlin's iconic Brandenburg Gate. His address comes nearly 50 years after John F.

Obama's Berlin speech: History raises the stakes

bigstory.ap.org — BERLIN (AP) - Five years and 50 years.

Turkey's 'standing man' to join ranks of icons?

bigstory.ap.org — The image was stark - a silent, solitary figure standing in passive defiance to the Turkish prime minister's demand for protesters to clear Taksim Square in central Istanbul.The challenge by performance artist Erdem Gunduz is catching on with other protesters in Turkey, encouraged by social media into imitating his gesture

Michael Hastings Dead at 33

rollingstone.com — Michael Hastings, the fearless journalist whose reporting brought down the career of General Stanley McChrystal, has died in a car accident in Los Angeles, Rolling Stone has learned. He was 33. Hastings' unvarnished 2010 profile of McChrystal in the pages of Rolling Stone, " The Runaway General," captured the then-supreme commander of the U.S.-led war effort in Afghanistan openly mocking his civilian commanders in the White House.