Barack means peach in Hungarian, Obama campaigns in Strasbourg, France

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President Barack Obama found out his name means "peach" in Hungarian from a French student during his town hall today in Strasbourg, France. Obama gave a speech to 3,500 young people and was cheered wildly, the New York Times reported.

"I think that it is important for Europe to understand that even though I’m now president and George Bush is no longer president, Al Qaeda is still a threat,” the Times reports Obama said.

“We cannot pretend somehow that because Barack Hussein Obama got elected as president, suddenly everything is going to be O.K." he said. "It is going to be a very difficult challenge. Al Qaeda is still bent on carrying out terrorist activity.”

Obama is in Europe for the G20, held this week in London, and a NATO summit in Prague this weekend.  He said he was speaking at a town hall event to "not only speak to you but to hear from you."

Obama said the United States shares the blame for the financial meltdown and would shut down Guantanamo Bay and promised to "seek a world without nuclear weapons."

"We know that pollution from cars in Boston and factories in Beijing," contribute to global warming and the climate crisis, Obama said.

"The only way forward is to combat fear and want wherever they exist," Obama said. "That is the challenge of our time."

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