Britain's Straw cancels visit to Egypt: ministry
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British Foreign Secretary Jack Straw has put off a planned visit to Egypt this week because it would have coincided with the anniversary of the 1973 Arab-Israeli war, officials said here.
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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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JERUSALEM -- An Israeli Cabinet minister who commanded an army unit during the 1967 Middle East War yesterday postponed a visit to Egypt following allegations there that soldiers under his command killed unarmed Egyptian prisoners.
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British Foreign Minister Jack Straw said his country does not plan to deploy forces to Darfur in western Sudan but will provide technical assistance.
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Sudan decided to postpone a decision  to expel the country heads of two British aid agencies on  Monday, citing administrative difficulties and humanitarian  grounds, the state minister for humanitarian affairs said.
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British Foreign Secretary Jack Straw urged the Sudanese government today to make a &quot;real effort&quot; to ease the suffering caused by its bloody clampdown in Darfur, as he visited some of the million-plus people who have been displaced.
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British Foreign Secretary Jack Straw  flew to Sudan on Monday to keep up international pressure on  Khartoum to comply with U.N. demands to end the conflict in  Darfur that has already killed up to 50,000 people.
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Cabinet Minister Jack Straw says he would prefer Muslim women not to wear veils at all.
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British Foreign Secretary Jack Straw has arrived in Afghanistan for a one-day visit to discuss the fight against the war-shattered country's booming drugs trade, an official said.
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Foreign Secretary Jack Straw will travel to Sudan, and may proceed to the embattled region of Darfur the following day, the Foreign 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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Prime Minister Tony Blair is on his way back to the UK following a three-day trip to Africa, Downing Street confirmed tonight. Mr Blair has cut short his visit to Ethiopia - he was due to return to the UK tomorrow.
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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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Children collect usable metal parts from the site of a car bomb explosion in Baghdad, Iraq, October 4. AP. BAGHDAD  - Britain&#39;s Foreign Secretary Jack Straw paid a surprise visit to Iraq on Tuesday amid
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Egyptian Foreign Minister Ahmed Abul Gheit on Friday rejected a European Parliament resolution criticising Egypt's human rights record, the official MENA news agency said.
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Egypt&#39;s foreign minister said Saturday that he and his country&#39;s intelligence chief will head to the West Bank on Monday after a visit last week was called off following a double suicide bombing in Israel.
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A U.N. human rights mission said Wednesday it had halted a planned visit to assess alleged atrocities in Sudan's troubled Darfur region because Khartoum had failed to give them visas.