Rice to host Libya as former foes mend ties
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Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice  will host Libya's foreign minister on Thursday -- the first  visit by the top Tripoli diplomat since 1972 -- in a sign of  warmer ties between the former foes.
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BEFRIENDING LIBYA: Despite unresolved terrorism and human rights concerns, the United States took another step toward ending decades of hostility with Libya on Thursday.
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President George W. Bush, hosting Vietnam's head of state in a historic visit, will welcome robust trade ties the United States has developed with a former enemy but will also push concerns on Hanoi's human rights record.
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US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice returns to the Middle East for talks with Israeli and Palestinian leaders.
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U.S. President George W. Bush has written to Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi saying further strengthening of ties hinges on Libya's adherence to agreements under which it scrapped weapons of mass destruction programs, the White House said on Tuesday.
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President Bush has dispatched to  Libya the highest-ranking diplomat to visit the North African  nation since Tripoli gave up key arms programs in 2003, the  State Department said on Monday.
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WASHINGTON -- In the fall of 1998, as President Charles Taylor consolidated his grip on Liberia, the defense attache at the US Embassy invited representatives of the country's formerly warring factions to a series of dinners at his residence.
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In a diplomatic turnabout, the Bush administration will join an Iraq-sponsored "neighbors meeting" with Iran and Syria, Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice said Tuesday.
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Setting aside differences on Iraq and other issues, Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice hosted a farewell lunch at the State Department for outgoing U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan.
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Libya on Friday denied that discussions in Washington between its foreign minister and Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice broached the topic of human rights.
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U.N. Secretary-General Kofi  Annan makes his first visit to Washington next week since calls  for his resignation, meeting Secretary of State Colin Powell  and national security adviser Condoleezza Rice to talk about  Iraq, U.N. officials said on Friday.
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U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza   Rice will visit Nova Scotia on the fifth anniversary of   September 11, 2001, to thank Canada for taking in scores of   flights diverted after the attacks on New York and Washington,   U.S. officials said on Friday.
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When US Secretary of State Colin Powell met Secretary-General Kofi Annan last month at an Egyptian summit on Iraq, the two old friends shook hands.
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UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan makes his first visit to Washington next week since calls for his resignation, meeting Secretary of State Colin Powell and national security adviser Condoleezza Rice to talk about Iraq, UN
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Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice will ask the Bush administration's Arab allies for help this week to shore up Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas at the expense of the Hamas radicals who control part of the Palestinian government.
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U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice will visit France starting on Sunday to meet new President Nicolas Sarkozy in a trip experts said would signal a recovery in bilateral ties that frayed over the Iraq war.
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ANKARA/JERUSALEM  - Condoleezza Rice begins her  first visit as secretary of state to the heart of the Middle  East conflict Sunday with Israelis and Palestinians already set  on a new course of dialogue after four years of violence.