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Barack Obama

Seeing slow progress, leaders face disparate nuclear threats

WASHINGTON (AP) — Dozens of world leaders assembling Friday for a nuclear security summit will confront a disparate array of modern-day threats, ranging from government actors like North Korea to murkier groups like the Islamic State. Frustration over the slow pace of reducing nuclear stockpiles shadowed the final day of the

ISIS

After Brussels, leaders tackling threat of nuclear terrorism

WASHINGTON (AP) — Still reeling from attacks in Brussels and Paris, world leaders are wrestling this week with the chilling prospect of the Islamic State group or other extremists unleashing a nuclear attack on a major Western city. Preventing terrorists from obtaining nuclear materials is the central focus as President Barack

Barack Obama

World leaders pressed for response to Paris attacks

ANTALYA, Turkey (AP) — Pressed for a strong response to the Islamic State group's assault on Paris, the world's top industrial and developing nations are set to outline their coordinated response to what President Barack Obama has described as an "attack on the civilized world."