Condoleezza Rice pays unannounced visit to Baghdad
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U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice paid an unannounced visit to Baghdad on Saturday, arriving as American and Iraqi troops made initial gains in a new crackdown against militants in the Iraqi capital.
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U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza  Rice said on Friday she wanted to visit Libya, saying it would  be an "important step" in cementing ties with the former foe,  but provided no date for a trip.
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UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan makes his first visit to Washington next week since calls for his resignation, meeting Secretary of State Colin Powell and national security adviser Condoleezza Rice to talk about Iraq, UN
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Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice  began her first foreign tour as America's top diplomat with a  double-edged pledge Friday that Washington had no immediate  plans to attack Iran.
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Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice met Iraq's prime minister during a surprise visit here Tuesday, congratulating him on the passage of legislation reinstating former Saddam Hussein loyalists to government jobs and pushing for progress on other benchmark laws.
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US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice arrives in Baghdad unannounced as 10 die in car bombs in Kirkuk.
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President Bush sneaked over to Baghdad to meet him last month. Now he plans to welcome Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki to the White House for the first time.
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Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice met top Iraqi officials in Baghdad on Tuesday after Iraq's parliament passed the first in a series of critical laws aimed at reconciling warring Iraqis.
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U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice flew into Baghdad on Thursday for a surprise visit to press Iraqi leaders to resolve their differences and ease raging sectarian violence that has killed thousands.
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In a diplomatic turnabout, the Bush administration will join an Iraq-sponsored "neighbors meeting" with Iran and Syria, Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice said Tuesday.
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U.S. Vice President Dick Cheney's office on Thursday denied reports he was in Iraq for a previously unannounced visit to celebrate the U.S. Thanksgiving holiday with American troops.
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Condoleezza Rice gave little ground to senators lambasting U.S. policies in Iraq on the first day of her confirmation hearing to be secretary of state and will return on Wednesday for a second round of questioning.
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U.S. Vice President Dick Cheney arrived in Baghdad on Thursday for an unannounced visit, Iraqi State Television reported.
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Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice, on an unannounced trip to Iraq, said Saturday the success of a new security crackdown in Baghdad will be measured largely by how well the U.S.-backed government capitalizes on any letup in sectarian violence.
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President Bush arrived in Iraq today on an unannounced visit, the White House said. The president stopped in Iraq en route to an economic summit in Australia and ahead of a briefing in Washington next week by the top U.S. commander in Iraq.
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U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice defended the Baghdad government's mixed report card against critics in Congress on Friday, saying the Bush administration needs another two months to find a "coherent way forward" in Iraq.
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Secretary of State-designate  Condoleezza Rice, in a rare acknowledgment of mistakes, said on  Wednesday the Bush administration had made some bad decisions  in Iraq and was unprepared for stabilizing the country.