Rice set for key Middle East tour
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The US secretary of state is heading to Israel to try to boost hopes for Middle East peace.
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LONDON, Oct. 7 -- It was a tough week for Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice in the Middle East. On four issues pivotal to the future of the world's most volatile region, U.S. diplomatic efforts made no visible progress or came up against unexpected resistance during her five-day tour, according...
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RAMALLAH, West Bank  - Condoleezza Rice takes her shuttle diplomacy to the Palestinian leadership on Thursday as she works to narrow their differences with Israel before Washington hosts a major Middle East peace conference.
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Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice is renewing efforts to revive stalled Mideast peace talks, visiting the region this week for the first time since a U.N.-brokered cease-fire halted Israel's war with Hezbollah militants.
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US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice, launching a European and Middle East tour, headed first to Britain which wants her government to adopt a more mulitilateral approach to international relations.
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Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice will take a trip to the West Bank to show support for the Palestinian president, Mahmoud Abbas.
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Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice said Sunday that key Arab nations, including Syria, would be invited to President Bush's planned Mideast peace conference this fall and expressed hope they would attend.
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US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice gave Australia&#39;s foreign minister a tour of Silicon Valley on Thursday, hinting she would return there as a professor after next year&#39;s presidential election.
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ANKARA/JERUSALEM  - Secretary of State Condoleezza  Rice hopes to drive the Israelis and Palestinians closer to  peace in Jerusalem on Sunday on her first visit as secretary of  state to the heart of their conflict.
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U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice  will meet foreign ministers of the six conservative Gulf  countries and Jordan while in Egypt on Tuesday, an Egyptian  official said on Friday.
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Condoleezza Rice plunges into Middle  East peacemaking on her first foreign trip as secretary of  state this week but the Bush administration's reluctance to  pressure Israel is likely to limit U.S. clout.
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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.
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Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice will return to the Middle East this weekend to try working out an agreement for a multinational force aimed at bringing an end to the Israeli-Hezbollah fighting.
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The United States will keep leading Middle East peace efforts with Tony Blair playing a complementary role as envoy to the Quartet of mediators, Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice said on Thursday.
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DEAD SEA, Jordan, Nov. 29 -- Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice will meet Thursday with Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert and the Palestinian Authority's president, Mahmoud Abbas, as part of a U.S. effort to demonstrate progress on the Israeli-Palestinian peace effort.
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US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice is targeting progress on foreign policy crises on North Korea and Iran, and will press for democratic change in Myanmar in a five-nation Asian tour this month.
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On her first foreign visit as U.S. secretary of state, Condoleezza Rice will find a Europe on edge over U.S. intentions toward Iran when she arrives in London on Thursday.