Obama set for week-long foreign jaunt

President Barack Obama is ready to leave for a trip to Russia, among other countries, where he is expected to talk with Russian leaders, Dmitry Medvedev and Vladimir Putin, about arms control, climate change and other issues.

Prior to taking office, Russia and the U.S. appeared on a path to a new cold war with tensions heating up over a planned U.S. "defense shield" in Eastern Europe, and a Russian military intervention in Georgia. However, things appear to have cooled off with the advent of the Obama administration.

The U.S. president will also take part in a G-8 summit in L'Aquila, Italy, and will meet separately with Pope Benedict XVI. He will also visit Ghana in his first trip to sub-Saharan Africa since coming to office.

Telegraph.co.uk

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Africa and Darfur Forum in Las Vegas with Samantha Power

The Obama campaign has opened three new offices in Nevada to capitalize on recent momentum in the early states.

They've also organized a global issues forum in Las Vegas focused on Darfur and African issues featuring Samantha Power:

What:
Issues Forum on Darfur and Africa

When:
This Saturday, December 15th at 1:30 PM

Where:
University of Nevada, Las Vegas Student Union room 208A


Address: (click for Map)
4505 Maryland Parkway
Las Vegas, NV 89154
Moyer Student Union-208 A

Invite your undecided friends, get your questions answered, and have a good time on the University of Nevada, Las Vegas campus.

Power is the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of “A Problem from Hell: America and the Age of Genocide” and a professor of Global Leadership and Public Policy at Harvard’s John F. Kennedy School of Government.
Power will discuss the crisis in Darfur, the current geopolitical situation in Africa, and Senator Obama’s plan to fight global poverty and disease as part of his larger foreign policy platform.

Check out these great video's with Samantha Power discussing Barack and his approach to Foreign Policy.

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