US diplomats refuse Iraq postings
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Hundreds of US diplomats condemn a move to force them to fill vacancies at the Iraq embassy in Baghdad.
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US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice denied on Wednesday that the US-led coalition in Iraq is crumbling after Britain announced it would reduce its troop mumbers by 1,600 in the coming months.
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The British government is denying reports it will deploy troops to Iraq in the lead-up to the American election, as a show of support to US President George Bush&#39;s re-eleciton bid.
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WASHINGTON - The White House refused to say Tuesday whether the top U.S. civilian official in Iraq after Saddam Hussein's ouster had asked the president for more troops to deal with the rapid descent of postwar Iraq into chaos...
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A spokesman for Iraq&#39;s election commission yesterday rejected a suggestion from the Bush administration that it adjust the results of next month&#39;s vote
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The British defence ministry denied that any decision had been taken to redeploy British troops in the south of Iraq to Baghdad to free US troops for other operations.
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Secretary of State Colin Powell dismissed assertions Thursday by Democratic presidential candidate John Kerry that failed diplomacy by the Bush administration deprived the United States of Arab and European support in the Iraq war.
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The United States on Tuesday suspended all land travel by U.S. diplomats and other civilian officials throughout Iraq, except in Baghdad's heavily fortified Green Zone. The move follows a weekend incident involving private security guards protecting a diplomatic convoy in which a number of Iraqi civilians were killed.
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Washington, Sept. 17 (NNN): The United States and most of its allies have rejected the United Nations secretary-general Kofi Annan&#39;s claim that the US-led invasion of Iraq was illegal.
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The United Nations no longer objects to American soldiers to guard its staff in Iraq after the search for separate contingents from around the world failed, diplomats and U.N. sources said on Wednesday.
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WASHINGTON - The State Department said yesterday that it may begin ordering diplomats to serve in Iraq because of a lack of volunteers to work at the US Embassy in Baghdad, the first such large-scale call-up since the Vietnam War.
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Britain failed to challenge the US government on one of the most controversial aspects of its disastrous post-invasion policy in Iraq in crucial meetings, according to a memo from a senior American adviser to the Coalition Provisional Authority.
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Iraq's National Conference refused today to send a second delegation to negotiate an end to fighting between U.S. troops and loyalists of Shiite cleric Moktada al-Sadr.
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Despite a stepped-up commitment from the United States to take in Iraqis who are in danger because they worked for the military, few are signing up to go, officials say.
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On October 13, 19 soldiers from a US supply unit in Iraq refused to drive seven unarmoured fuel tankers along roads to areas near Baghdad where resistance attacks on convoys are almost a daily occurrence.
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Downing St rejected Foreign Office calls to press the case for an end to Mid-East hostilities, the BBC learns.
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The United States has barred diplomats and civilians from leaving Baghdad's heavily fortified "Green Zone" after a shooting involving the Blackwater security firm that drew protests from Iraq and prompted investigations, a U.S. official said on Tuesday.