United States presidential candidate Barack Obama has arrived in Berlin for the first leg of his European tour which will also take him to France and Britain.
He is to meet with German Chancellor Angela Merkel and Foreign Minister Frank Walter Steinmeier to discuss issues such as trade, climate change and troop commitments to Afghanistan. Later on Thursday, Obama is expected to hold his only public speech of his foreign tour in front of Berlin's Victory Column. Plans to hold the speech on transatlantic relations at Berlin's Brandenburg Gate were changed after controversy in Germany over the symbolism of the site. The Democratic candidate for president is very popular in Germany and his speech is Germany to mark 60th anniversary of Berlin Airlift ...
British death toll in Afghanistan reaches 100 ... expected to draw tens of thousands of onlookers.
(Deutsche Welle)
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