German leader starts Asian tour
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German Chancellor Gerhard Schroeder is due in China to start an Asian tour  to discuss trade and bilateral ties.
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German Chancellor SchrÃ¶der will travel to Afghanistan next week despite a rocket attack near the German embassy in Kabul. The attack came a day before the country&#39;s first free presidential elections.
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German chancellor Angela Merkel starts a four-day visit to India aimed at boosting economic ties.
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President Roh Moo-hyun on Monday began his official schedule in India by addressing Korean residents and meeting businesspeople after arriving in New Delhi in the afternoon.
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US Secretary of State Colin Powell embarked on a North Asian tour focused on resolving the North Korean nuclear deadlock, China and Taiwan and the presence of US troops in Japan and South Korea.
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Malaysian rebel politician Anwar Ibrahim has arrived in the southern German city of Munich for medical treatment. He arrived at a clinic in Munich under bright blue skies on Sunday
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Trade and climate issues will top the agenda as German Chancellor Angela Merkel begins a visit to China.
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India's army chief will meet Chinese political and military leaders in Beijing on Monday during his first trip to China in a decade, reflecting warming ties between the world's two most populous nations.
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BERLIN - Jens Lehmann wore the wrong gloves and is not available for Germany&#39;s Asian tour in December. Oliver Kahn, by contrast, has the right gloves, can play in December and will be made fit like never before by Sepp Maier.
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French President Jacques Chirac began an Asian tour on Tuesday with a lightning visit to Singapore, where terrorism and a potential billion-dollar jet fighter contract were hot topics of his discussions with ...
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Germany completed their pre-Christmas tour of Asia with a 5-1 hammering of Thailand in Bangkok on Tuesday. The game marked the first goals in national team colours for the precocious KÃ¶ln teenager Lukas Podolskis
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German Chancellor Gerhard Schroeder arrives in China Monday to oversee a raft of deals, including an expected order by Beijing for Airbus jets, and to discuss the EU arms embargo against the communist country.
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US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice begins in Berlin on Tuesday a new tour of Europe expected to focus on the nuclear standoff with Iran and Pakistan's political turmoil.
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Iraqi Prime Minister Iyad Allawi is meeting senior German officials in Berlin - his first visit to the country since taking office six months ago.
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World champion Michael Schumacher arrived in Shanghai on Wednesday, along with a host of other Formula One stars, as preparations got underway for the debut of the Chinese Grand Prix.
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French President Jacques Chirac began an Asian tour with a lightning visit to Singapore, where terrorism and a potential billion-dollar jet fighter contract were hot topics of his discussions with the city-state's leaders.
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President Jacques Chirac embarks on an eight-day Asian tour aimed at winning France a bigger slice of China's super-hot economic pie by playing on political and cultural relations that have grown noticeably closer.