Rice meets Pakistani FM amid Afghan border controversy
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US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice met Pakistan&#039;s Foreign Minister Khurshid Kasuri, as controversy simmered over infiltrations by militants across the Pakistani-Afghan border.
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MOSCOW, May 17 (IPS) - After extensive talks over two days with Russian  President Vladimir Putin, Foreign Minister  Sergey Lavrov and  other Russian government and civil society leaders, U.S.  Secretary of State  Condoleezza Rice appears to have made some  limited headway through sharp differences on  strategic and  geopolitical matters.
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US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice flew in to London Wednesday to discuss the stakes in Afghanistan as the United States and Britain pressed their allies to do more to crush a resurgent Taliban.
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Scotland Yard investigators helping probe the murder of Pakistani opposition leader Benazir Bhutto met President Pervez Musharraf on Tuesday, a British diplomat said.
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US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice called Sunday on President Pervez Musharraf to ensure campaigning ahead of Pakistan's elections in January was conducted freely and fairly.
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Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice  will host Libya's foreign minister on Thursday -- the first  visit by the top Tripoli diplomat since 1972 -- in a sign of  warmer ties between the former foes.
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President Bush met yesterday with Afghanistan President Harmid  Karzai and last Friday with Pakistan's president, Gen. Pervez Musharraf. Tonight, joined by Vice President Cheney and Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice, he will bring both men into the old family dining room of the White House for a...
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US Deputy Secretary of State Richard Armitage arrived in Islamabad for talks with Pakistani leaders on Iraq, Afghanistan and terrorism, the foreign office said.
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"If you look at the Afghanistan of 2001 and the Afghanistan of now there is a remarkable difference for the better"  Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice said Thursday she has seen progress in Afghanistan during the past few years, despite a determined Taliban insurgency that has disrupted security and prompted concerns that the NATO-led military campaign is faltering.And Defense Secretary Robert Gates, seeking more military contributions from NATO members, said he's disappointed that some countries haven't sent combat troops to Afghanistan. But he also said he doesn't think the alliance is at a point of risking failure in the country. Read more
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Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice praised two key allies in the fight against terrorism who are sometimes at odds, calling Pakistan President Gen. Pervez Musharraf and Afghanistan&#039;s President Hamid Karzai two leaders the world is lucky to have. But, Rice added, she expects Pakistan&#039;s military leader to fulfill his promise to hold democratic elections next year.
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RAMALLAH, West Bank  - U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice met Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas on Thursday to try to bridge his differences with Israel over what a U.S.-led Middle East peace conference might achieve.
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President George W. Bush will seek   to ease tensions between Afghan President Hamid Karzai and   Pakistani President Pervez Musharraf on Wednesday amid a   Taliban resurgence that is pressuring all three governments.
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Foreign Secretary Margaret Beckett was due to meet President Pervez Musharraf and other Pakistani officials here Monday for talks on the fight against Taliban militants on the Afghan border.
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Vice President Dick Cheney made a surprise visit to Pakistan Monday for talks with President Gen. Pervez Musharraf on efforts to stabilize neighboring Afghanistan, an official said.
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JERUSALEM, Feb. 18 -- Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice Sunday shuttled between Palestinian and Israeli leaders, seeking to lay the groundwork for a successful three-way summit Monday in the face of Israeli anger at a new Palestinian government that includes the militant group Hamas.
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Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice said Tuesday she will raise with Afghanistan's U.S.-backed president the case of an Afghan reporter sentenced to death for insulting Islam, a case that has not drawn the same wide U.S. outrage or administration intervention as one involving a Muslim condemned to death for converting to Christianity.
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Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice and British Foreign Secretary David Miliband flew to the former Taliban stronghold of Kandahar in southern Afghanistan on Thursday for a firsthand look at the front lines of the NATO-led fight against Afghan insurgents.