Official calls the US a 'difficult' partner
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MOSCOW -- Russia's foreign minister said the United States was perhaps Moscow's "most difficult" partner and urged Washington to learn from its mistakes on the world stage, according to a news report issued yesterday. Sergey Lavrov also faulted Washington for impasses in the Middle East, suggesting that the US approach there was too confrontational, Interfax news agency reported. "Like any ...
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The US says one of its officials was "ill-informed" in saying Britain got nothing from its US relationship.
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The European Commission's Neelie Kroes told a Dutch newspaper this week that she was pressured by the United States government to go easy on Microsoft. In the article, she criticized government officials for interfering in an EU matter.
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The State Department on Thursday repudiated comments by one of its officials who suggested the U.S.-British "special relationship" was a myth, calling his comments "ill-informed ... and just plain wrong."
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Being secretary of the Department of Homeland Security is a &quot;tough, tough, tough job,&quot; said Dan Prieto. &quot;We have a robotics lab at Harvard.
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A senior State Department official said Monday the United States will seek to forge a solid working relationship with Nicaragua's President-elect Daniel Ortega.
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The Bush administration on Wednesday labeled as "pernicious and troubling" a New York Times report that the White House was more deeply involved than previously thought in discussions over whether to destroy CIA videotapes depicting the harsh interrogation of two Al Qaeda operatives.
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The Bush White House faces a predicament like that faced by Bill Clinton in the 1990s, but the current administration may have something extra: a new partner in Pervez Musharraf.
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It may take decades to change anti-American feelings around the world that have been aggravated by war in Iraq, U.S. policy toward Israel and America's "sex and violence" culture, the State Department official in charge of dealing with the U.S. image abroad said Thursday.
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Negotiations between Washington and Tokyo  over the impact of a global realignment of U.S. military forces  are "grueling" because of sensitive issues involved for Japan,  Defense Minister Yoshinori Ohno said Friday.
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WASHINGTON: US Secretary of State Colin Powell said on Tuesday that the Kashmir issue was complicated and would take time to resolve.
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The US administration believes that the pre-election campaign in Ukraine has several serious flaws, as an official spokesman for the US State Department Richard Boucher put it.
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A controversial figure takes charges of a State Department advisory panel.
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The State Department on Thursday  repudiated comments by one of its officials who suggested the  U.S.-British "special relationship" was a myth, calling his  comments "ill-informed ... and just plain wrong."
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As British premier, Margaret Thatcher may have forged a strong "special relationship" with the US, but an early visit did not always offer a warm introduction to the nation, documents released Friday show.
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Differences have emerged between the U.S. and British views of how to operate in southern Iraq, with U.S. officials encouraging the British to be more aggressive for as long as they keep troops there, said an American official closely familiar with Iraq policy.
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A close ally of new British Prime Minister Gordon Brown has hinted at a change to Britain&#39;s relationship with the United States, saying a nation&#39;s strength should no longer be measured by military might.