Powell calls off Athens visit after protests
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Colin Powell, the US Secretary of State, cancelled a weekend visit to attend the closing ceremony of the Olympics, prompting Greek Communists to claim it as a victory for anti-American protests.
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Secretary of State Colin Powell ended four days of consultations with European leaders on Friday saying that differences growing out of the Iraq war "are now being closed."
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Hundreds of people have been marching through Athens to protest against a visit by US Secretary of State Colin Powell for the Olympic Games.
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Athens protests as the US decides to use the name 'Macedonia' for Greece's northern neighbour.
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Secretary of State Colin Powell  on Friday rejected suggestions that Washington was trying to  edge out the United Nations as leader of the international  relief effort for the Indian Ocean tsunami.
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The US State Department has announced the cancellation of Secretary of State Colin Powell&#39;s planned lightning visit to Athens to attend the Olympics closing ceremony on Sunday.
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A greek demonstrator puts fire on a banner reading in Greek &quot;Powell out&quot;, 27 August 2004 in front of the parliament, central of Athens.
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Just before dawn Saturday, activists broke into one of the most secure areas in Greece -- the Parthenon -- and hung a mammoth banner declaring US Secretary of State Colin Powell a &quot;killer.&quot; The next day, during the final Olympic event, a man broke through a security cordon and attacked the front-runner in the marathon.
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Greek police disclosed Thursday that they received a bomb threat before the Olympic Games' opening ceremony, but chose not to evacuate the stadium. The threat turned out to be a hoax, like more than 80 other bomb threats that kept officials busy during the games.
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US Secretary of State Colin Powell has rejected Russian charges that the West is trying to win influence in Ukraine and other former Soviet republics by pushing its own interests in the name of democracy.
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At least three people were injured on Friday when police fired tear gas and sparred with rock-throwing demonstrators during a rally to protest the planned weekend visit of Secretary of State Colin L. Powell.
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WASHINGTON -- Secretary of State Colin L. Powell canceled his trip to Greece partly because of concern that his presence, expected to draw antiwar protests, might have disrupted the closing ceremony at the Olympics, State Department officials said yesterday.
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Anti-globalization activists organizing a protest Friday against a weekend visit by US Secretary of State Colin Powell said they would oppose any police attempt to prevent them from marching on the American embassy.
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The Greek government on Friday urged protestors planning demonstrations against the arrival here of United States Secretary of State Colin Powell not to mar the hitherto
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Secretary of State Colin Powell abruptly canceled plans to attend the Olympics closing ceremony in Athens on Sunday, a visit that had triggered angry protests from anti-war groups.
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US Secretary of State Colin Powell has cancelled a planned visit to Athens to attend the closing ceremony of the Olympic Games. State Department spokesman Richard Boucher has said in a statement that the press
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PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti Shooting erupted Wednesday outside the palace where Secretary of State Colin Powell was holding talks in the Haitian capital, as security guards exchanged fire with gunmen apparently trying to disrupt the secretary&#39;s visit.