Obama to deliver speech in Egypt, visit German concentration camp, celebrate D-Day in France

July 21st, 2009 Buchenwald gate part of Bauhaus displayWEIMAR, Germany — The iron gate at the entrance to Buchenwald has been temporarily removed to form the centerpiece of an exhibit in tribute to its designer, who was forced to come up with the concept while an inmate at the Nazi concentration camp. Franz Ehrlich, a German Communist Party member and activist, was arrested in the early 1930s and spent several years at Buchenwald, near the eastern city of Weimar.

June 26th, 2009 No serious contention likely in Obama-Merkel talksWASHINGTON — President Barack Obama and German Chancellor Angela Merkel probably will hold to their disparate views on the Afghanistan war and economic policy in the midst of worldwide financial problems during a meeting Friday. Despite touchy subjects, the two seemed to hit it off well during Obama's ceremonial visits this month to the Nazi concentration camp at Buchenwald and to Dresden, the German city firebombed by the Allies during World War II.

June 7th, 2009 PARIS - US President Barack Obama left Paris for Washington Sunday after a five-day foreign tour that included a landmark speech in Cairo, a visit to the former Buchenwald concentration camp in Germany and the commemoration of the 65th anniversary of the D-Day landings in Normandy. Obama spent the final hours of the journey on a private visit to the French capital with his wife, Michelle, and their two daughters, Malia and Sasha.

June 6th, 2009 Obama honors veterans, including family membersOMAHA BEACH, France — President Barack Obama is paying tribute to D-Day veterans, including one who visited the Normandy cemetery on the eve of the invasion's 65th anniversary and then died. Obama on Saturday remembered Jim Norene (nor-EEN), a member of the 101st Airborne who died in his sleep after visiting the American cemetery a day earlier.

June 5th, 2009 Obama to visit Nazi concentration camp siteWASHINGTON — President Barack Obama will visit the site of a notorious Nazi concentration camp during his one-day visit to Germany. The president will tour Buchenwald with German Chancellor Angela Merkel, following their talks Friday at nearby Dresden Castle and joint news conference.

June 5th, 2009 DRESDEN - US President Barack Obama Friday said the time was ripe to take action to push forward the Middle East peace process. "The moment to act is now," the president told a news conference with German Chancellor Angela Merkel after talks in the East German city of Dresden.

June 5th, 2009 Obama arrives in Paris after visiting German campPARIS — President Barack Obama has arrived in Paris after meeting with Chancellor Angela Merkel in Germany and touring the Buchenwald concentration camp, where tens of thousands of Jews perished during the Holocaust Obama is to meet Saturday with French President Nicolas Sarkozy and help commemorate the 65th anniversary of the Allies' D-Day invasion in France. Obama is also reuniting with his family in Paris.

June 5th, 2009 WEIMAR - US President Barack Obama paid his respects to victims of the Holocaust Friday when he toured a former Nazi concentration camp during a visit to Germany. German Chancellor Angela Merkel accompanied the president on his stroll around Buchenwald, where 56,000 prisoners died before the camp was liberated by US forces April 5, 1945.

June 5th, 2009 DRESDEN - US President Barack Obama met German Chancellor Angela Merkel Friday at the start of a brief visit to Germany. The meeting took place in Dresden, a city in the east of the country where Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin once served as a Soviet KGB agent.

June 5th, 2009 Obama visits Buchenwald site, lays roseWEIMAR — President Barack Obama says the Buchenwald concentration camp "is the ultimate rebuke" to those who deny the Holocaust. Obama on Friday visited the Nazi-era camp where 56,000 people died.

June 5th, 2009 Facts about former Buchenwald concentration campWEIMAR, Germany — Some details about the Buchenwald concentration camp that President Barack Obama visited Friday. The president's great-uncle, Charlie Payne, helped liberate the nearby Ohrdurf subcamp in 1945.

June 5th, 2009 RAMSTEIN - US President Barack Obama flew Friday evening from the US airbase in Ramstein, ending a busy day of activities in Germany. Numerous American families were on hand to wave farewell to Obama as he boarded Air Force One for his flight to Paris.

May 30th, 2009 Obama to stress renewed US-Muslim tiesWASHINGTON — President Barack Obama will stress what the White House calls his personal commitment "based upon mutual interests and mutual respect" to strengthening U.S. ties to the Muslim world in a much-anticipated speech in Egypt next week.

May 9th, 2009 Obama to address US-Islamic relations in EgyptWASHINGTON — President Barack Obama, who promised to lend a hand to the Islamic world if it unclenches a fist, plans a major speech from Egypt next month as he seeks to repair damaged relations between the United States and Muslims. The much-anticipated speech will further Obama's efforts to cool down animosities that burst into flame 30 years ago when Iranians overran the U.S.

December 25th, 2008 PARIS - France Friday called for a common European Union (EU) policy to deal with prisoners currently held in the US prison in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, after the camp is closed as planned by president-elect Barack Obama in 2009. The French foreign ministry said here in a statement that the government welcomed Obama's plan to close the prison, where suspected terrorists are held, but there had to be a common European policy on any prisoners being relocated to Europe.