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    Angelina Jolie: Actress-envoy joins G-8 leaders to urge end to sexual violence

    Angelina Jolie brought her celebrity wattage to London on Thursday to back an urgent cause: fighting sexual violence in military conflicts.

  • World Briefs: G-8 nations discuss terrorism, drugs

    The United States and its allies from the Group of Eight are meeting in Washington this week to improve international cooperation on counterterrorism and anti-crime measures, including moves to stop the use of fertilizer in roadside bombs and measures to combat the growing encroachment of Latin American drug cartels in West Africa.

  • **FILE** The State Department headquarters is located in the Foggy Bottom neighborhood of Washington. (Associated Press)

    G-8 nations huddle on terror, West Africa drugs

    The United States and its allies from the G-8 group of leading nations are meeting in Washington this week to improve international cooperation on counterterrorism and anti-crime measures, including moves to stop the use of fertilizer in roadside bombs and measures to combat the growing encroachment of Latin American drug cartels in West Africa.

  • President Obama salutes as he deplanes from Air Force One upon his arrival at Joint Base Pearl Harbor-Hickam in Honolulu on Wednesday, Jan. 2, 2013. The president is back in Hawaii for vacation after a tense, end-of-the-new-year standoff with Congress over the "fiscal cliff." (AP Photo/Gerald Herbert)

    Republicans question Obama's use of autopen to sign 'cliff' bill

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  • NATO Secretary General Anders Fogh Rasmussen speaks May 21, 2012, during a news conference at the NATO Summit in Chicago. (Associated Press)

    Obama: I couldn't sleep in my own Chicago bed

    President Obama praised Chicago police Monday for their handling of several days worth of clashes with anti-government protesters during the city's NATO summit, and asked for sympathy from frustrated Chicagoans because he wasn't able to sleep in his own bed.

  • Demonstrators make their way through downtown Chicago to protest the NATO summit on Sunday, May 20, 2012. (AP Photo/Charles Rex Arbogast)

    Protesters stream into Chicago park for NATO march

    A diverse crowd of protesters began streaming into a downtown Chicago park Sunday for one of the city's largest demonstrations in years — a march to the lakeside convention center hosting a historic NATO summit.

  • Margaret Nelson, center, from Evanston, Ill., joins about 100 anti-war activists as they march down Michigan Avenue after rallying outside President Barack Obama's campaign headquarters in downtown Chicago, protesting for an end to NATO operations in Afghanistan, Thursday, May 17, 2012, in Chicago. (AP Photo/Charles Rex Arbogast)

    Nurses' pre-NATO rally expected to draw thousands

    Thousands of nurses and other protesters planned to rally at a downtown Chicago plaza Friday ahead of a two-day NATO summit and as a prelude to a much larger demonstration expected this weekend.

  • President Obama speaks May 18, 2012, at the Symposium on Global Agriculture and Food Security at the Chicago Council on Global Affairs at the Ronald Reagan Building in Washington. (Associated Press)

    Obama touts $3B plan for food security

    President Obama announced a new public-private partnership to help African farmers and fight hunger and malnutrition in a speech Friday ahead of the the Group of Eight summit at Camp David.

  • ** FILE ** In this May 8, 2012, file photo, President Barack Obama speaks in Washington. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci, File)

    Obama to tout $3B pledge for food security

    President Barack Obama is set to announce $3 billion in private sector pledges aimed at alleviating hunger in Africa and urge the world's biggest economies to make good on their own financial promises.

  • ** FILE ** Unaware that a microphone was recording him, President Obama asked outgoing Russian President Dmitry Medvedev on Monday, March 26, 2012, for breathing room until after Mr. Obama's re-election campaign to negotiate on missile defense. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais)

    As G-8 leaders arrive, new doubts about Obama's international clout

    As President Obama prepares to host the NATO and Group of Eight international summits this weekend, there are increasing signs that the world is brushing him aside.

  • FILE - In this May 8, 2012 file photo, President Barack Obama speaks in Washington. President Barack Obama will play host this weekend to an extraordinary confluence of international summitry, with world leaders scuttling from the Maryland mountains to downtown Chicago as they grapple for fixes to Europe's mounting economic woes and solidify plans for winding down the decade-long war in Afghanistan. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci, File)

    Obama sidelined as player in summits

    As President Obama prepares to play host to a doubleheader of global diplomacy at the Group of Eight and NATO summits this weekend, there are increasing signs that the world is tuning out his message.

  • **FILE** President Obama visits with the crowd during his visit to the home of Val and Paul Keller, in Reno, Nev., on May 11, 2012. Obama met with the Kellers who recently refinanced their home loan under a federally backed program that the President wants to expand to all homeowners who are paying their mortgages on time. (Associated Press)

    Obama seeks to undercut Romney's record on jobs

    President Obama is casting Mitt Romney as a greedy, job-killing corporate titan with little concern for the working class in a new, multi-pronged effort that seeks to undermine the central rationale for his Republican rival's candidacy: his business credentials.

  • Vladimir Putin

    Putin won't attend G-8 meeting

    President Obama will have to wait a little while longer to ask Russian President Vladimir Putin for more "flexibility" on missile-defense talks.

  • Riot police seize a protester at the G-8 and G-20 summits in Toronto in 2010. Protests at this month's NATO Summit in Chicago will miss an opportunity to double up on the G-8 because President Obama moved it to Camp David. (Associated Press)

    G-8 move puts protest plans in flux

    The stage seemed set for an epic showdown: G-8 and NATO leaders planned to hold back-to-back summits in Chicago that activists predicted could draw tens of thousands of people protesting everything from war in Central Asia to unemployment and education cuts at home.

  • President Obama and British Prime Minister David Cameron attend the Mississippi Valley State-Western Kentucky basketball game in first-round NCAA tournament play on Tuesday, March 13, 2012, at the University of Dayton Arena in Dayton, Ohio. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster)

    Cameron, Obama meeting on weighty issues

    President Barack Obama is welcoming British Prime Minister David Cameron to the White House with all the pomp of a state visit as the allies stress their unity in dealing with hot spots like Iran, Syria and Afghanistan.

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