Britain's Straw on surprise trip to Iraq
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British Foreign Secretary Jack Straw made an unannounced trip to Iraq, where he held meetings with top British and Iraqi officials in the northern city of Kirkuk before travelling to Kurdistan.
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The American Defence Secretary, Donald Rumsfeld, has made a surprise visit to Iraq to assess rising violence and increased security breaches.
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KHARTOUM, Aug 23  -- British Foreign Secretary Jack Straw flew into Khartoum, vowing to impress on Sudanese leaders the international community&#39;s growing concern over the humanitarian crisis in Darfur.
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Britain&#39;s next prime minister, Gordon  Brown, arrived in Iraq on Monday for his first visit since it  was confirmed he was taking over the premiership from Tony  Blair on June 27, Iraqi state television said.
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LONDON - The British government is &quot;very sympathetic&quot; to a US request for British troops in southern Iraq to be moved closer to Baghdad to free up American forces for anti-insurgency operations, Foreign Secretary Jack Straw said Tuesday.
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UK Foreign Secretary Jack Straw and Iraq's interim leader Iyad Allawi hold talks on security.
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Foreign Secretary Jack Straw has arrived in northern Iraq for talks with Kurdish political leaders. The plans were not published before Mr Straw trip, which comes amid the continuing crisis over British hostage Ken Bigley.
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Foreign Secretary Jack Straw has personally contacted the family of a Briton kidnapped in Iraq to reassure them as they anxiously await news, the Foreign Office announced today.
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Former Foreign Secretary Jack Straw has described the current situation in Iraq as "dire".
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Protected by U.S. Black Hawk  helicopters, Britain's Tony Blair flew into Baghdad on Tuesday  in a surprise show of political bravado designed to boost  prospects for Iraqi elections in January.
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Foreign Secretary Jack Straw is to fly to Sudan this week to meet government leaders to assess the humanitarian and security crisis.
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Foreign Secretary Jack Straw will represent Britain on Thursday at the Jakarta summit on the Asian tsunami disaster, his office said.
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BASRA, Iraq  - British Prime Minister Gordon Brown paid an unannounced visit on Sunday to the troops whose mission he is winding down in Shi'ite southern Iraq.
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Iraqâs Prime Minister Iyad Allawi will today have talks with Foreign Secretary Jack Straw, Defence Secretary Geoff Hoon and International Development Secretary Hilary Benn.
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British Foreign Secretary Jack Straw flies to Sudan tomorrow to try and end the humanitarian crisis in Darfur. He is going to press on the government the need to rein in and bring to justice Arab militias
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Leaving for his much trailed trip to Sudan yesterday, the Foreign Secretary Jack Straw said: &quot;I am keen to see for myself the situation on the ground in Darfur.
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President Bush's search for better relations with Europe in his second term faces an early test next week with a visit by an old ally, British Foreign Secretary Jack Straw.