Rice to show Colombia support
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US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice is heading to ally Colombia to try to secure a free trade accord.
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Bloomberg - Aug. 23 (Bloomberg) -- Condoleezza Rice will make the first visit to Libya by a U.S. secretary of state in half a century in a sign of improving relations with the North African nation once branded a state sponsor of terrorism, envoy Ahmed Gebreel of the Libyan mission to the United Nations said today.
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Condoleezza Rice will offer to help  Palestinian leaders end anti-Israeli militant attacks on Monday  on the first visit in three years of a U.S. secretary of state  to the seat of the Palestinian Authority.
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BOGOTA, Colombia  - Colombia on Thursday said itwould pardon 23 jailed rebels to encourage Marxist guerrillasto free 72 hostages, including three Americans.
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George W. Bush on Sunday will become the first U.S. president since Ronald Reagan to set foot in Bogota as he tries to bolster his staunchest Latin American ally fighting a decades-old insurgency and drug war.
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Condoleezza Rice will likely hew to  a hard-line U.S. foreign policy on Tuesday when she outlines  goals for the president's second term at her confirmation  hearing as the first black woman nominated to be secretary of  state.
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Colombian President Alvaro Uribe on Friday welcomed Group of Eight nations' support for his initiative to free hostages held by left-wing rebels, but a guerrilla leader he released from prison to try to negotiate a deal warned that any agreement remained elusive.
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With top Democratic lawmakers threatening to pull $700 million a year in aid to Colombia, former President Bill Clinton appeared with Colombian President Alvaro Uribe on Friday and urged Congress to consider that the country has made strides to overcome violence.
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Secretary of State Colin Powell is hailing a drop in murder and kidnapping rates in Colombia and gains in the counter-narcotics war but says the country may not be meeting congressional standards for improving protection of human rights. If Powell is unable to certify that Colombia has met the requirements, it would trigger a cutback in U.S. assistance to Colombia.
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Colombian President Alvaro Uribe said Wednesday he was grateful Venezuela's leader is seeking to win the release of three Americans and other hostages in Colombia, but seemed cautious about raising hopes on the negotiations with leftist rebels.
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President George W. Bush visited Colombia on Sunday to show support to his closest ally in South America as it fights a decades-old insurgency and drug war supported in part by billions of dollars in U.S. aid.
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By Luis Jaime Acosta BOGOTA, Colombia  - Colombian President AlvaroUribe offered on Saturday to meet his Venezuelan counterpart,Hugo Chavez, to defuse a widening diplomatic dispute over thecapture of a top Colombian rebel in Venezuela.
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U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice's one-day jaunt to Spain on Friday is meant to smooth over a three-year downturn in relations between Washington and Madrid, but both sides say they won't shy away from sensitive issues, foremost among them Cuba.
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Colombian government officials said Friday they need support from the international community to assist in the planned demobilization of thousands of right-wing paramilitary fighters.
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By Luis Jaime Acosta BOGOTA, Colombia  - Colombian President AlvaroUribe offered on Saturday to meet his Venezuelan counterpart,Hugo Chavez, to defuse a widening diplomatic dispute over thecovert of a top Colombian rebel in Venezuela.
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BAGHDAD -- Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice made a surprise visit Tuesday to Baghdad, where Iraqi officials said she congratulated the premier on the passage of the so-called de-Baathification legislation and encouraged him to speed along other benchmark laws.
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CARACAS, Venezuela - Supporters of President Hugo Chavez marched through Caracas on Sunday, demanding respect for Venezuela's sovereignty following U.S. criticism and Colombia's acknowledgment that it paid a bounty to capture a rebel on Venezuelan soil.