Obama, Russia's Medvedev to reopen talks on nuclear arms

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Britain's Prime Minister Gordon Brown and President Barack Obama attend a press conference at the Foreign and Commonwealth Office in London.

The U.S. and Russian presidents, in a sidebar meeting at the G-20 summit, agree to renew discussions on reducing the nations' warheads. Obama also spends time bonding with Britain's Gordon Brown.

Reporting from Washington and London -- The United States and Russia have agreed to reopen talks about curtailing their arsenals of nuclear warheads, marking the first major arms discussions since 1997, with President Obama saying today that he has accepted an invitation to travel to Moscow in July.

Obama and Russian President Dmitry Medvedev, announcing their intention to "move beyond Cold War mentalities" and reopen arms talks at a meeting today on the sidelines of the G-20 summit in London, hope to reduce the number of nuclear warheads that each nation controls.

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The two struck a quick chemistry in their talks, part of the bilateral discussions that the new American president is holding with other world leaders during his time in London for a summit of the leaders of G-20 nations focused on addressing the global economic problem.