President Barack Obama's performance on national security and international affairs and his image as a strong leader appear to be behind his rising ap...
AP | JULIE PACE and VANESSA GERA | Posted 07.27.2011
WARSAW, Poland — President Barack Obama on Friday honored the memories of those slain in the Warsaw Ghetto uprising against Nazis, telling one e...
AP | NANCY BENAC | Posted 07.26.2011
DEAUVILLE, France — It is no simple thing to push the "reset" button on U.S.-Russian relations. Trying to move beyond years of inherited mistru...
AP | JULIE PACE | Posted 07.23.2011
DUBLIN — The White House says President Barack Obama will leave Ireland early due to safety concerns over a cloud of ash from an Icelandic volca...
Posted 07.23.2011
President Obama's stop in Ireland hit a snag when his armored car got stuck on a ramp leaving the U.S. Embassy in Dublin. Cheers erupted as the ca...
Posted 07.22.2011
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Weaving together strands of pomp, policy and summitry, President Barack Obama's weeklong European tour is all about tending to old ...
AP | JULIE PACE | Posted 05.25.2011
WASHINGTON — Just days after an exhausting and sometimes disappointing trip to Asia, President Barack Obama is dashing to Europe to assure Ameri...
New York Times | JOHN VINOCUR | Posted 05.25.2011
Why would an American president not come to a celebration marking the fall of the Berlin Wall, and with it, the triumphant end of the Cold War -- one ...
Denise Dennis | Posted 05.25.2011
President Obama placed his role in the memorial celebration of the 65th Anniversary of D-Day in its proper perspective, noting that he was not the first and would not be the last president to honor the historic events of June 6, 1944.
Danielle Cavallucci | Posted 05.25.2011
Remembering our history gives us strength. It gives us the opportunity to rise above the pettiness of individual desire, and to strive for something greater.
Huffington Post/AP | Posted 05.25.2011
WEIMAR, Germany (AP) - President Barack Obama toured a World War II concentration camp Friday after prodding the international community to redouble e...
Rachel Sklar | Posted 05.25.2011
Today, Holocaust survivor Elie Wiesel joined Barack Obama at Buchenwald, one of Nazi Germany's worst concentration camps, but he worried that "the world hasn't learned" from the tragedy.
AP | Posted 05.25.2011
WASHINGTON — President Barack Obama plans to deliver a speech in Egypt on U.S. relations with the Muslim world when he sets out on an overseas t...
White House | Katharine Zaleski | Posted 05.25.2011
President Obama's first major trip overseas has been over for almost a week, but some of the best photos from the eight day extravaganza came out toda...
Charles J. Brown | Posted 05.25.2011
Back in the 1960s, MIT's Sloan School of Management developed something called the "beer game," which -- much to the dismay of MIT students -- did not...
Kamran Pasha | Posted 05.25.2011
As I listened to Obama's speech, I heard one word repeated countless times. Respect. It is a word that Muslims have craved to hear from American leaders.
Nathan Gardels | Posted 05.25.2011
The new Obama administration has assigned such pivotal importance to Turkey because it is the great experiment in the world today of both non-Western and post-secular modernity.
AP | TOM RAUM | Posted 05.25.2011
STRASBOURG, France — Who knew Europe had so many Americans? President Barack Obama found out when he held a town-hall meeting for German and Fr...
NY Times | Helene Cooper | Posted 05.25.2011
Is President Obama trying to muzzle his press corps? The standard form during "joint press availabilities" -- bureaucratic lingo for press conferen...
AP | PHILIP ELLIOTT | Posted 05.25.2011
UPDATE: LONDON - President Barack Obama has arrived in Europe, with a hefty economic and political agenda for his first journey across the Atlantic s...
AP | KAREL JANICEK | Posted 05.25.2011
PRAGUE — The Czech government collapsed Tuesday after losing a parliamentary no-confidence vote over its handling of the economic crisis. It wa...
Eric Margolis | Posted 05.25.2011
Obama's honeymoon will be brief. He faces the extraordinary challenge of dealing with a nation that has plunged into bankruptcy and exported financial crises around the globe.
Paula B. Mays | Posted 05.25.2011
I cannot think of one Spanish person I knew, including the local cab drivers, who didn't have an opinion on this election.
Bob Burnett | Posted 05.25.2011
The presumptive Democratic nominee's world tour etablished that Obama has the gravitas to become President of the United States and neutralized McCain's national security credentials.
AP | DAVID ESPO | Posted 05.25.2011
WASHINGTON — Sen. Barack Obama 's trip to the Middle East and Europe marks his first high-profile step onto the international stage, a campaign-...
CNN | Posted 07.30.2011