Afghan leader in key Rome talks
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President Hamid Karzai is meeting the Italian prime minister to discuss the fight against Afghan militants.
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Afghan President Hamid Karzai came to Pakistan on Monday for talks about trade and cooperation in the two neighbors' campaigns to quell Islamic militants.
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"The program went on as scheduled. Nothing was stopped"  Afghan President Hamid Karzai stresses a point during a press conference with Italian Premier Romano Prodi at Rome's Chigi Palace, premier's office, in this Friday, Feb. via The Macon Telegraph
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Italy's Prime Minister Romano Prodi flew to Afghanistan on Sunday for a Christmas visit with Italian troops, whom he praised for their efforts to bring peace to a country gripped by a growing insurgency.
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NATO leaders set restoration of peace and stability in Afghanistan as the "key priority" of the alliance on Wednesday as members offered some concessions on the levels and mobility of troops battling Taliban insurgents there.
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The Taliban said Monday it was ready for talks with the Afghan government after President Hamid Karzai offered negotiations in a bid to end the rebels&#39; nearly six-year bloody insurgency.
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Italy's president is to hold talks with political leaders after PM Romano Prodi's resignation.
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Italy's president held crisis talks on Thursday to see if Romano Prodi, who resigned after only nine months in power after losing a Senate vote, has enough support to be reappointed as prime minister or must be replaced.
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Foreign Secretary Margaret Beckett held talks with Pakistani President Pervez Musharraf Monday amid concerns about the spiralling Taliban insurgency in neighbouring Afghanistan.
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"We will be, as I said before, in this country, Afghanistan, for the long haul, and it's important for us to be here in partnership with countries from NATO"  Leaders of France, Australia and Italy traveled to Afghanistan over the weekend to meet with President Hamid Karzai and visit troops stationed in the conflict-ridden country.Nicolas Sarkozy, the first French president to visit Afghanistan, signaled that French troops would not pull out of the country anytime soon. He told Karzai that France has a long-term political and military interest in Afghanistan, Karzai's office said in a statement.'We did not want to give the signal of a withdrawal, which would have been a detestable signal at a time when we see the ravages that terrorism can do to the world,' Sarkozy said on France-Info radio. Read more
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The prime minister is in Rome today for crisis talks following the withdrawal of the incoming EU commission. Today&#39;s gathering of 25 heads of state and government was meant to focus on the ceremonial signing of the EU constitution.
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Italy's president held crisis talks with political leaders on Thursday to see if Romano Prodi could still head a government or must be replaced after resigning as prime minister after only nine months in power.Comment
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The Italian president began talks with political leaders Thursday to discuss the formation of a new government after the resignation of Premier Romano Prodi's nine-month-old administration.Comment
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President Hamid Karzai left for Britain where he is due to meet Queen Elizabeth, Prince Charles and Prime Minister Gordon Brown for talks on post-Taliban Afghanistan, the palace said.
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The US president is due to host talks between the Pakistani and Afghan leaders to try to ease tensions.
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Italian Premier Romano Prodi looks on as he handles documents during a meeting with Iran's senior nuclear negotiator Ali Larijani in Rome's Palazzo Chigi premier office, Wednesday Feb.Comment
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Italian President Giorgio Napolitano is to hold talks with political leaders after PM Romano Prodi's resignation.