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  • 19
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    World leaders step up for 'family photo' at G-8 summit

    Matt Cardy / Getty Images

    President of the European Commission Jose Manuel Barroso, Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, German Chancellor Angela Merkel, Russia's President Vladimir Putin, Britain's Prime Minister David Cameron, U.S. President Barack Obama, French President Francois Hollande, Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper, Italian Prime Minister Enrico Letta and European Council President Herman Van Rumpuy arrive for a group photograph on June 18, 2013 in Enniskillen, Northern Ireland.

    Jewel Samad / AFP - Getty Images

    Britain's Prime Minister David Cameron, host of the G-8 summit, with President Barack Obama.

    Ben Stansall / AFP - Getty Images

    The G-8 leaders were joined by two representatives of the European Union, European Commission President Jose Manuel Barroso (left) and European Council President Herman Van Rompuy (right).

    World leaders gathered beneath a cloudy sky to pose for a traditional 'family photograph' at the G-8 summit in Lough Erne, Northern Ireland, on Tuesday. 

    A discussion over the conflict in Syria was set to dominate the last day of the meeting held in a secluded, heavily guarded golf resort, Reuters reported.

    Related:

    • Obama, Putin to sign new deal on reducing nuclear threat
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    Where's a drone strike when you really need one?

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  • 26
    Mar
    2013
    8:52am, EDT

    A diplomatic star is born as Chinese first lady dazzles on first foreign tour

    Thomas Mukoya / Reuters

    Chinese President Xi Jinping and First Lady Peng Liyuan bid farewell as they board their plane to depart from the Julius Nyerere International Airport in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania, on March 25, 2013.

    Ivan Sekretarev / AP

    Glamorous first lady Peng Liyuan has emerged as a Chinese diplomatic star, charming audiences and cutting a distinct profile from her all-but-invisible predecessors on her debut official trip abroad.

    Peng was featured prominently in Chinese media coverage of her husband President Xi Jinping's state visit to Russia, the start of a trip that has also seen stops in Tanzania and South Africa.

    Much of the coverage focused on her personal style, with a report on the mass-market sina.com website noting with satisfaction that the black leather clutch she paired with one outfit was made to order by a Chinese firm in the southwestern city of Chengdu, a flattering contrast with prominent Chinese female politicians scorned publicly for appearing decked head to toe in foreign designer brands.

    -- The Associated Press

    Thomas Mukoya / Reuters

    Peng Liyuan looks at a traditional Tanzanian entertainer during the welcoming ceremony upon her arrival in Dar es Salaam on March 24, 2013.

    EPA

    Peng Liyuan observes a moment of silence during a visit to Gongo la Mboto cemetery, where Chinese workers who died while constructing a railway are buried, on the outskirts of Dar es Salaam on March 25, 2013.

    Siphiwe Sibeko / Reuters

    South Africa's President Jacob Zuma shares a joke with Peng Liyuan during an official lunch hosted by Zuma and his wife in Pretoria on March 26, 2013.

    Glamorous and stylish, Peng Liyuan, China's First Lady, has been projecting a newly fashionable face of the Communist regime as she accompanies her husband, the new Chinese President Xi Jinping, on a tour of Russia and Africa – Channel Four's  Lindsey Hilsum reports.

    Related:

    Sign here, Mr. President: China's Xi completes rise to the top

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    17 comments

    Here's a thought. Why don't you and the first lady go to North Korea and shut that fat little pig up before he gets roasted?

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  • 26
    Mar
    2013
    6:37am, EDT

    John Kerry practices soccer skills during meeting with Afghan women

    Jason Reed / AFP - Getty Images

    Secretary of State John Kerry heads an Afghan-made soccer ball towards the captain of Afghanistan's women's national soccer team, Zahra Mahmoodi, as he meets with the women-owned company that makes the ball, and other Afghan women entrepreneurs at the U.S. Embassy in Kabul on March 26, 2013.

    By Arshad Mohammed, Reuters

    Jason Reed / AFP - Getty Images

    Secretary of State John Kerry met Afghan businesswomen in Kabul on Monday in an effort to show U.S. commitment to women's rights - at one point heading a soccer ball with a 22-year-old female player.

    Zahra Mahmoodi, captain of the Afghan women's national soccer team, asked Kerry for help to build a dedicated stadium where women and girls could play soccer.

    Speaking to Reuters afterwards, she said she was particularly worried about a return of the Taliban after 2014.

    "Yes, I am worried about that but I don't want to think about it," she said with a nervous laugh. "If the Taliban come back there will be no human rights and I think that it will be even worse than the past." Read the full story.

    Secretary of State John Kerry was wrapping up a trip to Afghanistan to repair relations with the U.S. when he met with a businesswoman who made soccer balls and showed off a few of his own skills.

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    I love that soccer ball! I found them at www.globalgoodspartners.org

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  • 23
    Nov
    2012
    2:54pm, EST

    Francois Lenoir / Reuters

    Germany's Chancellor Angela Merkel arrives at the European Union (EU) council headquarters for a summit discussing the EU's long-term budget in Brussels on November 23, 2012.

    Germany's Merkel plays down failure to clinch EU budget deal

    Reuters reports — European Union leaders failed to reach agreement on Friday on a new seven-year budget for their troubled bloc, calling off talks in less than two days after most countries balked at far deeper spending cuts demanded by Britain and its allies.

    Chancellor Angela Merkel of Germany, the biggest contributor to EU coffers, said she had not expected a deal at the first attempt and played down the consequences of failure, saying there was a real potential for agreement at the start of 2013. Read the full story.

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    1 comment

    According to the article, it is a complicated affair indeed. However it ends up working in the end, the impact will affect everyone who lives, works or visits Europe. We also can expect the United States to feel the ramifications as nations like Greece continue to struggle with unemployment, while i …

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  • 20
    Nov
    2012
    9:58am, EST

    A presidential yawn: Hectic schedule catches up with Obama at Asian summit

    Samrang Pring / Reuters

    U.S. President Barack Obama yawns as he sits between Japan's Prime Minister Yoshihiko Noda, right, and Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao during the plenary session of the 21st ASEAN (Association of Southeast Asian Nations) and East Asia summits in Phnom Penh, Cambodia on November 20, 2012. In his first meeting with a Chinese leader since his re-election, Obama said on Tuesday Washington and its chief economic rival must work together to "establish clear rules of the road" for trade and investment.

    Carolyn Kaster / AP

    President Barack Obama, who was in Cambodia for a summit of Asian leaders, spoke on the phone with Israeli and Egyptian leaders until 2:30 a.m. Tuesday local time, NBC News reports, to try to find a way to end the deadly Gaza crisis.

    Later Tuesday, Obama met separately with Chinese and Japanese leaders before taking his seat at the East Asia Summit, at which point his busy schedule appeared to catch up with him. 

    Previously on PhotoBlog:

    • Hand-gripping diplomacy as Obama visits Cambodia
    • Obama makes historic trip to Myanmar
    • Obama, McKayla Maroney 'not impressed' during White House visit

    Slideshow: As it happens: Obama's fourth year in office

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    The president's fourth year at the White House in pictures — follow along as it happens.

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    How dare you refute The President Of The United States Of America by posting such a photo! Of course President Obama is exausted....He was on the phone until after 2:30 this morning, attempting to build some sort of compassionate bridge across this immence abyss of lunatic politics, propaganda, and, …

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  • 19
    Nov
    2012
    1:34am, EST

    Obama makes historic trip to Myanmar

    Barbara Walton / EPA

    U.S. President Barack Obama and Myanmar opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi step out onto the balcony of her house to deliver a statement in Yangon, Myanmar, on November 19, 2012.

    Jason Reed / Reuters

    President Barack Obama and Secretary of State Hillary Clinton tour the Shwedagon Pagoda in Yangon, Nov. 19. Obama became the first serving U.S. president to visit Myanmar, trying during a whirlwind six-hour trip to strike a balance between praising the government's progress in shaking off military rule and pressing for more reform.

    Soe Zeya Tun / Reuters

    Barack Obama and Myanmar's opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi

    "I don't think anybody is under the illusion that Burma's arrived, that they're where they need to be," Obama told a news conference as he began a three-country Asian tour, his first trip abroad since winning a second term.

    "On the other hand, if we waited to engage until they had achieved a perfect democracy, my suspicion is we'd be waiting an awful long time," he said.

    -- Reuters

    Read the full story: Praise and pressure as Obama makes historic Myanmar trip

    Jason Reed / Reuters

    Crowds wave U.S. flags as they line a street outside the home of Myanmar's opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi as Barack Obama arrives to meet her in Yangon, Nov. 19.

     

    13 comments

    We may not agree with Obama on a few issues, but ya gotta give it to the guy for standing with the People of Myanmar. The balcony exit with Aung San Suu Kyi is classic stuff. It will re-enforce to the Junta of this once brutal regime and to the world that the United States is seroius about a free an …

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  • 31
    Aug
    2012
    7:39am, EDT

    Jim Watson / Pool via Reuters

    U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, right, is greeted on her arrival at Rarotonga International Airport in Rarotonga, the most populous island of the Cook Islands, on August 30, 2012.

    Warm welcome for Hillary Clinton in the Cook Islands

    Hillary Clinton was greeted by Cook Islanders in straw grass skirts and headdresses dancing, chanting and playing drums, NBC News' Catherine Chomiak reports. By the end of the arrival ceremony garlands were piled high around the Secretary of State's neck, some of them so long they almost touched the ground.

    Read more about Clinton's visit to the South Pacific island chain that is home to just 10,000 people in this report from The Associated Press: Tiny Cook Islands a squeeze for Hillary Clinton.

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    1 comment

    this "woman" repulses me to the core.

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  • 30
    Aug
    2012
    7:32am, EDT

    Rauf Mohseni / EPA

    Iranian president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, center, talks to his foreign minister Ali-Akbar Salehi, 3rd left, and an official as Egyptian president Mohammed Morsi, right, delivers his speech during the opening ceremony of the summit of the Non-Aligned Movement (NAM), the group of countries not aligned with any of the traditional power blocs, as United Nations Secretary General Ban Ki-moon, left, listens, in Tehran, Iran on August 30, 2012.

    Lost in translation? Non-Aligned Movement meets in Iran

    Egyptian President Mohammed Morsi criticized Syria’s "oppressive regime" Thursday at an international conference in Iran – one of President Bashar Assad's few remaining allies - and called for outside intervention to end the civil war, NBC News reports.

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    1 comment

    The need this microphone to say: we support assad..This is not as people of iran really want to do..People need approach to human rights in iran then nuclear programs balance

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  • 24
    Aug
    2012
    7:50am, EDT

    Greek PM faces tough test in deeply skeptical Germany

    Tobias Schwarz / Reuters

    German Chancellor Angela Merkel and Greek Prime Minister Antonis Samaras attend a welcome ceremony before talks in Berlin on August 24, 2012.

    The Associated Press reports from Berlin — The new Greek prime minister's hopes of winning more time from creditors to implement reforms and spending cuts faced a tough test in deeply skeptical Germany on Friday as he met Chancellor Angela Merkel.


    Merkel greeted Prime Minister Antonis Samaras at the chancellery with a businesslike handshake and military honors.

    In a charm offensive in German and French media this week, Samaras has been arguing that his nation should have more time beyond the mid-2014 deadline to complete reforms that are a condition of it continuing to receive bailout loans. Without the help, Greece would be forced into a chaotic default on its debts and could be forced out of the eurozone. Read the full story.

    Guido Bergmann / Bundesregierung via AFP - Getty Images

    EDITOR'S NOTE: Image released by the German federal government.
    Angela Merkel and Antonis Samaras hold talks at the beginning of their meeting on August 24, 2012 on the roof of the Chancellery in Berlin.

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    7 comments

    Can we have more time? Oh and can we get 6 weeks vacation, retire at 55 and be by far the most unproductive country in the EU? Thanks!!!

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  • 25
    Jul
    2012
    7:30pm, EDT

    Ki Price / Reuters

    Taiwanese flag removed from Lower Regent Street

    A combination photo shows the flag of Taiwan, also known as Chinese Taipei, hanging across the retail district of Lower Regent Street in London on July 23, 2012, top, and a gap, bottom, after it was taken down at the same location on July 25, 2012. The International Olympic Committee decided in 1980 that the Republic of China could only compete under the title Chinese Taipei and use a flag designed after the ruling.

    Whoops! Wrong flag accompanies North Korean names; delays match

    BBC News: An explainer on Taiwan's identity crisis

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    My country is called Republic of China (ROC, also known as Taiwan) , NOT CHINESE TAIPEI, and IT IS NOT A PART OF People's Republic of China (PROC, also known as China).

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  • 29
    Jun
    2012
    7:03am, EDT

    Georges Gobet / AFP - Getty Images

    Luxembourg Prime Minister Jean-Claude Juncker reacts as he arrives for a second day of the European Union summit in Brussels on June 29, 2012. Leaders from the 17 countries sharing the euro sealed a dramatic deal Friday to direct emergency measures at crisis-hit Italy and Spain and boost the embattled economy, sending markets sharply upwards.

    A funny thing happened at the EU summit

    By David R Arnott, NBC News

    We can only speculate as to the cause of Jean-Claude Juncker's melodramatic reaction as he got out of his car this morning. Perhaps, like many people around Europe, he was shocked that the continent's leaders appear to have finally come up with a set of measures that show they are serious about solving their crippling debt crisis.

    2 comments

    There will be more dramas from these EU leaders, who have contributed their share with their extreme greed and arrogance. US, Britain, and many European nations are in a economic mess due to greedy Saudi and oil companies high oil price manipulations using Iraqi wars as an excuse. PIIGS and heavy US …

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  • 31
    May
    2012
    8:57am, EDT

    Penguins and politicians: Baltic leaders have a whale of a time at summit

    Jens Buettner / AFP - Getty Images

    The members of the Council of the Baltic Sea States sit under a model of a whale at the Ozeaneum sea museum as they attend the plenary session of the summit on May 31, 2012 in Stralsund, northeastern Germany.

    Jens Buettner / AFP - Getty Images

    German Chancellor Angela Merkel speaks with European Commission President Jose Manuel Barroso at the summit opening.

    German Chancellor Angela Merkel and heads of government from 11 countries on the Baltic Sea met at the Ozeaneum sea museum in Stralsund, northeastern Germany on Thursday for the second day of a regional summit. 

    See more of our favorite pictures of diplomatic wrangling on PhotoBlog.

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    Fabian Bimmer / AFP - Getty Images

    From left: Valentina Pivnenko, chairwoman of the Baltic Sea Parliamentary Conference, Danish Prime MInister Helle Thorning-Schmidt, European Commission President Jose Manuel Barroso, Poland's Prime Minister Donald Tusk, German Chancellor Angela Merkel, Iceland's Prime Minister Johanna Sigurdardottir, Lithuania's Prime Minister Andrius Kubilius and Finland's Prime Minister Jyrki Katainen feed penguins at the Oceaneum during the summit in Stralsund.

    Guido Bergmann / Pool - Bundesregierung via Reuters

    Merkel, Barroso and other leaders visit one of the oldest harbor pubs in Europe after a dinner at the start of their summit in Stralsund, May 30, 2012.

     

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