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- Abbas, Olmert hold new round of Mideast peace talks
- JERUSALEM AFP — Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert met Palestinian president Mahmud Abbas Sunday for US-backed peace talks in what could be their last meeting before Olmert steps down over a graft scandal. "The objective remains to press ahead with the process begun at the Annapolis conference in the...
- Research articles 2008-08-31
- US diplomat escapes Pakistan gun attack: official
- PESHAWAR, Pakistan AFP — Unknown gunmen opened fire on the car of a senior US diplomat in the northwestern Pakistani city of Peshawar on Tuesday, but she escaped unhurt, police and US officials said. The diplomat, Lynne Tracy, was on her way at the US consulate in the city...
- Research articles 2008-08-25
- Suu Kyi meets lawyer as UN envoy arrives in Myanmar: spokesman
- YANGON AFP — Detained democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi was allowed a rare meeting with her lawyer as a UN envoy arrived on a mission to push Myanmar's junta to re-open talks with her party, a spokesman said Monday. The Nobel peace prize winner spoke with her lawyer...
- Research articles 2008-08-18
- Israeli-Syrian talks to continue in August
- ISTANBUL AFP — Israeli and Syrian officials completed a fourth round of Turkish-mediated indirect talks here on Wednesday and agreed to resume negotiations in August, a Turkish diplomat said. "The talks were held in a constructive atmosphere," the diplomat, who asked not to be named, told AFP after the...
- Research articles 2008-07-30
- WTO talks reach make-or-break point
- GENEVA AFP — Crucial World Trade Organisation talks entered make-or-break mode Friday as negotiators struggled to avert the collapse of the seven-year attempt to broker a global free-trade pact. Beginning a fifth and planned final day of meetings, diplomats and negotiators admitted that little progress has been made so...
- Research articles 2008-07-25
- WTO talks face collapse
- GENEVA AFP — WTO head Pascal Lamy warned on Friday that talks on a global free-trade pact faced collapse as leading nations searched here for a way to break a seven-year log jam. "We need to change gears very quickly to turn things around," Lamy was quoted as saying...
- Research articles 2008-07-25
- Suicide attack on Indian embassy kills 41 in Afghanistan
- KABUL AFP — A suicide bomber rammed an explosives-laden car into the Indian embassy in Kabul on Monday, killing 41 people and wounding nearly 150 others in the deadliest attack here since the 2001 fall of the Taliban, officials said. The blast in the heart of the city scattered...
- Research articles 2008-07-07
- Rival Cypriot leaders in key meeting for Cyprus peace drive
- NICOSIA AFP — Rival Cypriot leaders are to hold a key meeting on Tuesday to decide if enough progress has been made on the ground to warrant the launch of a new peace initiative to end decades of division. "This meeting is really important, because things have been difficult...
- Research articles 2008-06-29
- US could open diplomatic outpost in Tehran: US official
- WASHINGTON AFP — The United States is considering opening an interests section staffed by US diplomats in Tehran, similar to the one it has in Cuba, a State Department official said Monday. "I know it has been discussed," a State Department official said Monday, speaking on condition of anonymity....
- Research articles 2008-06-23
- UN seeks 'right balance' in Kosovo: new mission chief
- PRISTINA AFP — Italian diplomat Lamberto Zannier, the new chief of the UN Mission in Kosovo UNMIK, said Friday his goal was to find a right balance between all sides in the newly declared independent state. "I see the UN especially in this phase as a facilitator, but as...
- Research articles 2008-06-20
- US trade diplomat says Doha deal in reach by year-end
- GENEVA AFP — The US ambassador to the World Trade Organisation voiced optimism Friday that an international trade liberalisation deal could be reached this year. The Doha Round of talks aimed at opening up markets has floundered since its launch in 2001. But the top US trade diplomat,...
- Research articles 2008-06-13
- US, Europe grow frustrated with Karzai: report
- WASHINGTON AFP — US officials are growing increasingly frustrated with Afghan President Hamid Karzai, arguing that he is not up to addressing Afghanistan's many troubles, The New York Times reported Saturday. The newspaper said that even a senior State Department official questioned in an interview whether Karzai had the...
- Research articles 2008-06-07
- UAE foreign minister on landmark visit to Iraq
- BAGHDAD AFP — The Emirati foreign minister met Iraqi leaders on Thursday on the first visit to the violence-wracked country by a chief diplomat from a Arab country in the Gulf since the 2003 US invasion. The UAE's Sheikh Abdullah bin Zayed al-Nayhan met his Iraqi counterpart Hoshyar Zebari...
- Research articles 2008-06-05
- Syrian nuclear issue looms large at IAEA meet
- VIENNA AFP — The UN's atomic watchdog, already mired in a marathon investigation into Iran's nuclear programme, is set to embark on what could prove an equally contentious probe of allegations of a secret nuclear reactor in Syria. International Atomic Energy Agency IAEA chief Mohamed ElBaradei announced Monday that...
- Research articles 2008-06-03
- Rice drops mentioning peace deal by end of year
- WASHINGTON AFP — US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice said Tuesday that a deal on the outlines of a Palestinian state can still be reached, but dropped previous remarks that one could be sealed by year-end. Rice also pledged "unwavering" support for Israel during a visit to Washington by...
- Research articles 2008-06-03
- No real progress on Iran nuclear dossier: diplomats
- VIENNA AFP — Iran is continuing to stonewall the UN nuclear watchdog's investigations into allegations it has carried out studies to design a nuclear weapon, diplomats said on Friday. As the International Atomic Energy Agency IAEA prepares to publish its latest report on its long-running investigation into Iran's disputed...
- Research articles 2008-05-23
- Chinese diplomat who saved thousands during Holocaust honored
- WASHINGTON AFP — The heroic actions of a Chinese diplomat who saved thousands of Jews from the Holocaust by issuing visas for them to flee Austria are being honoured in an exhibition at the US Congress. Against the orders of his superiors, Feng Shan Ho, the Chinese consul-general in...
- Research articles 2008-05-19
- Expelled US diplomats take last-minute leave of Belarus
- MINSK AFP — Eleven US diplomats left Belarus Saturday after being expelled by the Minsk authorities, crossing the border into Lithuania just an hour before their deadline to leave expired, an embassy spokesman said. The diplomatic spat is the latest in a series of incidents between the US and...
- Research articles 2008-05-03
- US short of diplomats for Iraq, Afghanistan reconstruction
- WASHINGTON AFP — The State Department is short of staff to meet the Pentagon's need to reinforce the provincial reconstruction teams PRT in Iraq and Afghanistan, a senior US official said Monday. To press his point, Eliot Cohen, counselor to Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice, noted that the Defense...
- Research articles 2008-04-28
- Lebanon protest demands that Egypt open Gaza border
- BEIRUT AFP — More than 200 people staged a sit-in outside the Egyptian embassy in Beirut on Friday to demand that Cairo open its border with the densely populated Gaza Strip, currently being blockaded by Israel. "We are here to hand over to diplomats a letter for Egyptian President...
- Research articles 2008-04-25
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