10 things you need to know today: June 17, 2013

Obama talks Syria with Putin, Colorado wildfire area is declared a crime scene, and more

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1. OBAMA ARRIVES AT G8 SUMMIT

President Obama arrives Monday in Northern Ireland for a two-day summit of the Group of Eight nations where Syria's civil war is expected to dominate his conversations with Russian President Vladimir Putin. In their first face-to-face meeting in a year, Obama will try to persuade Putin to get his ally, Syrian President Bashar al-Assad, to discuss a peace deal with rebels, but Putin has criticized the West in recent days for promising to send weapons to opposition forces. [Reuters]

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Harold Maass is a contributing editor at The Week. He has been writing for The Week since the 2001 debut of the U.S. print edition and served as editor of TheWeek.com when it launched in 2008. Harold started his career as a newspaper reporter in South Florida and Haiti. He has previously worked for a variety of news outlets, including The Miami Herald, ABC News and Fox News, and for several years wrote a daily roundup of financial news for The Week and Yahoo Finance.