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• FACT CHECK: Obama skips fine print in nuke speech (AP)
• Summit endorses Obama goal on nuclear security (AP)
• Loophole in nuclear summit: spread of nuclear power? (The Christian Science Monitor)
• Summit urges acceptance of nuke terrorism treaty (AP)
• Obama presses Iran, gains nuclear summit pledges (Reuters)
• Treasury imposes sanctions on Somali militants (AP)
• Summit agrees to secure nuclear materials in four years (AFP)
• African army chiefs unite against desert terrorism (AP)
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• Russia security chief says 170 militants detained (Reuters)
• World leaders meet on nuclear terrorism threat (Reuters)
• Leaders at summit work on halting nuclear traffic (AFP)

FACT CHECK: Obama skips fine print in nuke speech (AP) Posted: 13 Apr 2010 06:33 PM PDT AP - President Barack Obama laid out a nightmare scenario on Tuesday — a terrorist with atomic bomb materials no bigger than an apple who could launch an attack killing hundreds of thousands of people.

Summit endorses Obama goal on nuclear security (AP) Posted: 13 Apr 2010 05:07 PM PDT AP - In full accord on a global threat, world leaders Tuesday endorsed President Barack Obama's call for securing all nuclear materials around the globe within four years to keep them out of the grasp of terrorists. They offered few specifics for achieving that goal, but Obama declared "the American people will be safer and the world will be more secure" as a result.

Loophole in nuclear summit: spread of nuclear power? (The Christian Science Monitor) Posted: 13 Apr 2010 01:59 PM PDT The Christian Science Monitor - The goal of President Obama’s unprecedented gathering of world leaders in Washington Tuesday on the issue of nuclear security is to put under lock and key the world’s nuclear materials that could be used by terrorist organizations to make a nuclear bomb.

Summit urges acceptance of nuke terrorism treaty (AP) Posted: 13 Apr 2010 12:41 PM PDT AP - President Barack Obama's Nuclear Security Summit is calling on all the 47 countries involved to cooperate in spreading global acceptance of an existing treaty that aims to crack down on potential nuclear terrorism.

Obama presses Iran, gains nuclear summit pledges (Reuters) Posted: 13 Apr 2010 03:50 PM PDT Reuters - U.S. President Barack Obama pressed for bold, swift sanctions on Iran on Tuesday but acknowledged China has concerns about the economic impact and said negotiations are difficult.

Treasury imposes sanctions on Somali militants (AP) Posted: 13 Apr 2010 10:39 AM PDT AP - The U.S. Treasury Department has imposed new sanctions on nearly a dozen suspected Islamist militants, including some linked to the al-Shabab terrorist group in Somalia.

Summit agrees to secure nuclear materials in four years (AFP) Posted: 13 Apr 2010 03:08 PM PDT AFP - President Barack Obama declared the world safer Tuesday after a 47-nation summit agreed to a four-year deadline on securing vulnerable nuclear materials from terrorists.

African army chiefs unite against desert terrorism (AP) Posted: 13 Apr 2010 08:08 AM PDT AP - Army chiefs from seven African nations gathered Tuesday in Algiers to coordinate efforts against a regional al-Qaida offshoot and arms and drugs traffickers that roam across their porous common borders in the Sahara.

(AP) Posted: 13 Apr 2010 02:06 PM PDT AP - Obama: North Korea chose 'path of severe isolation,' hopes for its return to six-party talks.

Russia security chief says 170 militants detained (Reuters) Posted: 13 Apr 2010 12:44 AM PDT Reuters - The chief of Russia's security services said 170 insurgents had been arrested this year and 10 terror attacks had been prevented, Interfax news agency reported on Tuesday.

World leaders meet on nuclear terrorism threat (Reuters) Posted: 12 Apr 2010 10:27 PM PDT Reuters - World leaders meet in Washington on Tuesday for the biggest summit hosted by the United States since 1945, and they will have just one item on the agenda -- stopping terrorists from getting a nuclear bomb.

Leaders at summit work on halting nuclear traffic (AFP) Posted: 13 Apr 2010 12:12 AM PDT AFP - US President Barack Obama will urge world leaders to harden their resolve to lock down nuclear material on the second day of a summit Tuesday aimed at keeping atomic weapons out of terrorist hands.

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