Rice to visit new French leaders, discuss Darfur
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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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Heads of state from French-speaking nations are gathering in the west African nation of Burkina Faso for a two-day summit to discuss the crisis in Ivory Coast.
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President Bush is sending his national security adviser to the Middle East next week and Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice will make a return visit soon afterward to keep up pressure on Israeli and the Palestinians to start peace negotiations.
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The prestigious French political science university Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice chose as the stage for advancing the healing process between the United States and France is considered by some the "Oxford of France" &#151; and produces many of the country's diplomats and public servants.
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France's foreign minister arrives in Rwanda on a visit aimed at normalising bilateral relations.
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France hosts a meeting of senior officials from more than a dozen countries on Monday aimed at providing funds and other support for international efforts to stabilize Sudan's violent Darfur region.
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US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice arrives in the Kurdish area of northern Iraq for talks with leaders.
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The United States and other nations  are prepared to help move an expanded African peacekeeping  force into position in Sudan's Darfur region to halt the  bloodshed, national security adviser Condoleezza Rice said on  Sunday.
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French Foreign Minister Bernard Kouchner arrived Saturday in Rwanda in a fresh step towards improving diplomatic ties between the two countries, which broke down in 2006.
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The US presidential envoy to Sudan will meet senior NATO and EU officials in Brussels Friday, as Washington mulls possible military action to end violence in the strife-torn region of Darfur, senior US officials said.
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Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice  said Monday that Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon and new  Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas would visit the White House  for talks in the spring.
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After talks with Italian and Vatican officials in Rome, Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice heads for France Tuesday to try to turn around a troubled relationship with the country that led opposition to invasion of Iraq.
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U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza  Rice told Sudan in firm terms on Wednesday it must choose  between "cooperation and confrontation" with the rest of the  world and accept a U.N. force for Darfur.
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French Foreign Minister Bernard Kouchner arrived in Khartoum on Sunday ahead of talks with President Omar al-Beshir on the crisis in war-torn Darfur.
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US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice arrived here late Tuesday for a G8 foreign ministers meeting where she hopes to gain support for UN resolutions on Iran&#39;s nuclear programme, Kosovo and Darfur.
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European foreign ministers are expected to confront China over the Darfur conflict at a meeting of top diplomats from 46 EU and Asian nations that gets underway here on Monday.
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Condoleezza Rice will visit the  Middle East and Europe next month on her first trip as U.S.  secretary of state to make a new push on Middle East peace and  to mend ties with European allies, officials said on Thursday.