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• Bush in Rome for talks with Berlusconi on Iran, Afghanistan

  - 2008-06-11

  ROME AFP — US President George W. Bush arrived in Rome Wednesday hoping Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi will help tighten the squeeze on Iran and step up help for war-battered Afghanistan, aides said. Bush, here on the third stop of what he calls his final Europe trip before...

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• Bush begins last Europe tour hoping to keep pressure on Iran

  - 2008-06-10

  BRDO PRI KRANJU, Slovenia AFP — US President George W. Bush heads into an EU summit Tuesday seeking to tighten the squeeze on Iran's nuclear programme, a central message of his farewell European tour. Ahead of the summit the US leader, already dismissed by some officials in Brussels as...

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• EU's Solana 'probably' going to Iran Sunday for nuclear talks

  - 2008-06-09

  LJUBLJANA AFP — EU foreign policy chief Javier Solana will probably travel to Tehran on Sunday for talks aimed at convincing Iran to suspend its uranium enrichment activities, he told AFP Monday. "The date fixed will probably be the 15th," of June, he said after arriving in the Slovenian...

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• Bush pushes Europe to toughen on Iran

  - 2008-06-09

  LJUBLJANA AFP — US President George W. Bush on Tuesday looked to persuade European leaders to tighten the squeeze on Iran's finances, a central message of what was likely his farewell tour of the continent. Bush, whose term ends in January, will hold talks with Slovenia's president and prime...

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• Bush, Olmert discuss Iran under cloud of uncertainty

  - 2008-06-04

  WASHINGTON AFP — US President George W. Bush hosted Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert on Wednesday for talks focusing on Iran's nuclear drive and Middle East peace amid gnawing doubts about the premier's future. At the top of he meeting, which comes just three weeks after Bush visited Israel...

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• Obama slams Bush over terrorist remarks

  - 2008-05-15

  WASHINGTON AFP — Presidential hopeful Barack Obama Thursday accused George W. Bush of an "extraordinary politicization" of foreign policy, after the US leader implied Democrats want to appease terrorists. Bush ignited a furious row with the Illinois senator, his most direct clash yet with Democrats vying to succeed him...

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• Syria nuclear disclosure a warning to North Korea, Iran: Bush

  - 2008-04-29

  WASHINGTON AFP — President George W. Bush said Tuesday he disclosed details of an alleged Syrian nuclear drive to send a clear "message" to North Korea and Iran that they could not hide their nuclear activity. The president expanded on the Syrian facility destroyed in an Israeli airstrike in...

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• Bush warns Iran of 'choice' on Iraq

  - 2008-04-10

  WASHINGTON AFP — US President George W. Bush warned Iran Thursday that it faced a "choice" on Iraq and said that the United States would act to defend its interests there from any threats from Tehran. "The regime in Tehran also has a choice to make: They can live...

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• Bush: US will 'confront' Iran if necessary

  - 2008-01-28

  WASHINGTON AFP — US President George W. Bush warned Iran Monday that the United States will "confront those who threaten our troops" and defend its allies and interests in the Gulf. Bush, in excerpts of his State of the Union speech provided by the White House, also urged Tehran...

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• Bush faces final State of the Union

  - 2008-01-27

  WASHINGTON AFP — US President George W. Bush delivers his final State of the Union speech Monday, its agenda-setting powers diluted by pressing, unfinished business abroad and the fight to succeed him at home. With not quite 12 months left in his term, the deeply unpopular president is slated...

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