Straw visits devastated resorts
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The foreign secretary tours the Thai island of Phuket, where most UK victims of the Indian Ocean tsunami died.
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From hardest-hit Sri Lanka to resort islands in Thailand, holidaymakers from Britain described the destruction caused when tidal waves triggered by a powerful earthquake off Indonesia hit their resorts, in messages to radio, television stations and news agencies back home.
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Jack Straw, the British foreign secretary, sought on Wednesday to bring Israel and the Palestinians back to the negotiating table, arriving in Jerusalem for a two-day visit
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LONDON In messages to radio and television stations and news agencies back home, tourists from Britain described the tsunami destruction in Asia on Sunday.
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Foreign Secretary Jack Straw will visit the former Nazi death camp at Auschwitz in Poland to mark the 60th anniversary of its liberation during World War II.
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Britain&#39;s Foreign Secretary Jack Straw flies to Sudan on Monday to press the government to end the humanitarian crisis engulfing the western region of Darfur.
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British Foreign Secretary Jack Straw will visit the former Nazi death camp at Auschwitz in Poland to mark the 60th anniversary of its liberation during World War II, his office said.
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British Foreign Secretary Jack Straw left London for Sudan, where he was to discuss the crisis in war-torn Darfur with President Omar al-Beshir and senior officials.
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British Foreign Secretary Jack Straw urged the Sudanese government to make a "real effort" to ease the suffering caused by its bloody clampdown in Darfur, as he visited some of million-plus people who have been displaced.
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The majority of resorts hit by the Asian tsunami will be ready for tourists within weeks, UK travel agents say.
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ISRAEL&#39;S prime minister Ariel Sharon cancelled a meeting with Jack Straw yesterday - because he lost his voice. The Foreign Secretary was scheduled to meet Sharon during a two-day visit to the Middle East.
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Jack Straw, the Foreign Secretary, flies to Sudan today to press the Khartoum government to rein in militias waging a campaign of terrorism in the western province of Darfur.
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British Foreign Secretary Jack Straw  made a surprise visit to Iraq on Tuesday, with violence and  kidnapping overshadowing plans for elections in January.
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Foreign Secretary Jack Straw left London for Sudan, where he was to discuss the crisis in war-torn Darfur with President Omar al-Beshir and senior officials.
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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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UK Foreign Secretary Jack Straw is in Sudan's Darfur region where a million have fled attacks by pro-government militias.
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Britain's Foreign Secretary Jack Straw  said on Friday the number of British victims of the Asian  tsunami may be 440, of which 49 have been confirmed dead.