Rice cancels visit to African nations
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Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice has dropped Africa entirely from an overseas trip this week to focus on Iraq and Middle East peace efforts, the State Department said Monday.
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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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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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Mending fences with Europe, Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice said Tuesday "it is time to turn away from the disagreements of the past" that alienated longtime allies over the U.S. invasion of Iraq.
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Secretary of State Colin Powell abruptly canceled plans to attend the Olympics closing ceremonies in Athens Sunday in part because of events in Iraq and Sudan, the State Department said.
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Secretary of State Rice faces critics who say the State Department is not addressing the changing world that America must deal with
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At the urging of the White House, a key Senate panel put off consideration of the nomination of Condoleezza Rice to be secretary of state, the chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee said on Sunday.
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Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice warned Wednesday that Washington could boycott the United Nations's 2009 conference on racism in Durban, South Africa if it will likely degenerate into anti-Semitism.
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KIRKUK, Iraq  - Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice paid an unannounced visit to Iraq on Tuesday, flying directly into the volatile, ethnically mixed northern city of Kirkuk.
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Condoleezza Rice kicks off a conference for donors to Liberia by announcing the cancellation of its $391m debt to the US.
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American actress Mia Farrow was on Sunday forced to cancel a ceremony in Phnom Penh highlighting human rights abuses in Sudan after authorities barred her access to the city's genocide museum.
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The United States is building a partnership with Africa to pull the continent out of poverty, U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice said on Thursday as she lent her support to moves to boost U.S.-African trade.
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At the urging of the White House, a key Senate panel will put off consideration of the nomination of Condoleezza Rice to be secretary of state, the chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee said on Sunday.
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US Secretary of State Colin Powell canceled a visit to Athens to attend the closing ceremony of the Summer Olympic Games because of what the State Department said was more pressing ``business in Washington.
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US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice is to discuss the humanitarian crisis in Darfur and stability in Lebanon when she meets world leaders on Sunday and Monday in Paris, her spokesman said.
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Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice arrived for an unannounced visit in Baghdad early Saturday, a U.S. Embassy spokesman said. Rice's visit comes amid a security crackdown in the Iraqi capital and a political debate in the American capital, where the Senate was set for a test vote on a resolution condemning President Bush's troop increase.
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Sudan must stop trying to &quot;scale back&quot; a  hybrid international force for Darfur, U.S. Secretary of State  Condoleezza Rice said as she flew to Paris for talks on the  humanitarian crisis in the western Sudanese region.