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	U.S.-Russian Row Overshadows G-8 Summit The vast agenda for this week’s Group of Eight summit in Heiligendamm, Germany, ranges from climate change to globalization to Iran’s nuclear ambitions to Africa’s development aid. But the consensus is that the spat between the United States and Russia over missile defense will overshadow much of the talks...Read More
	Growing Grassroots Campaign To Say ‘Enough’ to Genocide On May 31, members of Enough—a joint initiative of the Center for American Progress and the International Crisis Group launched in 2006—held its first monthly conference call highlighting leading grassroots efforts to halt the ongoing violence in Darfur...Read More
	Africa Has Its Day Numerous African envoys and U.S. officials turned out to toast Africa Day at the National Building Museum on May 24, including ambassadors from the Democratic Republic of Congo, Egypt, Ghana, Kenya, Libya and South Africa, among many others...Read More

	CARE Turns 61 CARE, the premier 61-year-old humanitarian organization that started when CARE packages were dropped over France in 1946, revised their popular annual celebration this year...Read More
	Washington Ballet’s Una Noche Latina No one enjoyed the Washington Ballet’s Una Noche Latina Spring Gala at the National Building Museum in late April more than the evening’s honorary diplomatic patron, José Octavio Bordón, the live-wire Argentinean ambassador who loves to dance...Read More
	Aschiana’s Kite Soirée Continues to Soar Recently, on a gorgeous spring night in Washington, 200 Aschiana supporters gathered on the terrace of the German Residence as guests of German Ambassador Klaus Scharioth and his wife, Dr. Ulrike Scharioth, for Aschiana’s third annual Kite Soirée, which raised more than $132,000...Read More
	Norway’s Next Century Norwegian Ambassador Knut Vollebaek and his wife Ellen held not one, but two National Day celebrations back to back to welcome fellow Norwegians living here and all the American friends this popular diplomatic couple have made during their four years in D.C. ...Read More
	RemArte Auction and Exhibition The Ibero-American Cultural Attachés Association is teaming up with the Friends of the Art Museum of the Americas to host “RemArte,” an online and live auction of contemporary art from the Americas, Spain and Portugal...Read More