Albanian envoy, ex-US lawmaker to arrive &#8211; October 08
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Friday, October 08, 2004 Albanian ambassador to the U.S. Fatos Tarifa and former North Carolina congressman David Funderburk are expected to arrive today on Saipan for a three-day visit.
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The US secretary of state is due to meet Palestinian and Israeli leaders as part of a new diplomatic effort.
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Libyan Foreign Minister Mohammed Abdel-Rahman Shalgam will meet U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice in the United States on January 3, the two countries said on Friday.
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TOKYO, Feb 11 (IPS) - During his four-day visit to Tokyo last week,  Albania's first democratically elected prime minister, Sali  Berisha, asked Japan to strengthen economic ties with his country  and support Kosovo's bid for independence from Serbia.
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Serbian and ethnic Albanian leaders met in Vienna on Saturday for what could be the last time before a United Nations plan offering independence for the breakaway province of Kosovo goes to the U.N. Security Council.
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A 79-year-old prominent Chinese AIDS activist is to fly to the United States as early as Sunday to receive a human rights award after she was freed from house arrest thanks to U.S. Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton.
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Tom Ridge, the former U.S. Homeland Security chief, is to work as a consultant to Albanian Prime Minister Sali Berisha on security, NATO and investments.
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TIRANA, Albania -- Evidence of Albania's love for the United States lined the road leading into this capital yesterday. US and Albanian flags flew from lampposts. People wearing cardboard Uncle Sam hats milled in the streets. Oversize billboards and banners heralded the American president's visit.
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The U.S. ambassador to Iraq said Sunday that recent successes such as reducing violence have created a new set of challenges for 2008 Â the most important being the return of refugees and the struggle for political reconciliation.
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A former Iranian leader once seen as the harbinger of moderation and better relations with the United States is making the case for dialogue nearly on the doorstep of the White House.
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The bodies of an Albanian pop singer who died with her mother and 7-year-old daughter in a carbon monoxide poisoning accident in New York City will be returned to Albania on Friday for burial, the Foreign ...
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Secretary of State Colin Powell, on what might be his last foreign tour as the top US diplomat, arrived in The Hague today for talks with senior European Union officials.
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Secretary of State Colin Powell will  represent the United States at the Olympic Games closing  ceremony in Athens on August 29, the Greek foreign ministry  said on Sunday.
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Two U.S. lawmakers scheduled to meet Thursday with former Pakastani Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto and President Pervez Musharraf were advised to leave the country after Bhutto's assassination.
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Explosives have been found in two places in the Albanian capital of Tirana, one close to the US Embassy, days before the US president is due to visit, police say. via The West Australian
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The top US diplomat for the Middle East is to visit Egypt and Morocco this week to help plan an international conference on Iraq expected to be held next month, the State Department said.
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The Serbian minister for Kosovo said Friday that his government has information that the province's Albanian leadership will declare independence on Feb. 17