Straw holds talks in West Bank
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British Foreign Secretary Jack Straw has pledged support for the smooth running of elections to replace Yasser Arafat as he laid a wreath on the tomb of the late Palestinian leader.
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British Foreign Secretary Jack Straw made an unannounced trip to Iraq, where he held meetings with top British and Iraqi officials in the northern city of Kirkuk before travelling to Kurdistan.
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The US secretary of state is in the Middle East for talks with Israeli and Palestinian leaders amid fresh diplomacy.
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The foreign secretary aims for an end to conflict as he sets out to visit Palestinian leaders.
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UK Foreign Secretary Jack Straw starts talks in Beijing amid controversy on plans to lift the EU arms embargo on China.
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British Foreign Secretary Jack Straw and Spanish counterpart Miguel Angel Moratinos held wide-ranging talks on bolstering cooperation over the contentious issue of Gibraltar and taking the chill off recently frosty relations.
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British Prime Minister Tony Blair has launched an effort to resolve the Arab-Israeli conflict, unveiling plans for a conference to prepare the Palestinians for statehood during a landmark West Bank visit.
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Foreign Secretary Jack Straw left London for Sudan, where he was to discuss the crisis in war-torn Darfur with President Omar al-Beshir and senior officials.
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UK Prime Minister Tony Blair began efforts today to boost the Middle East peace process by holding talks in Jerusalem with Israeli Prime Ariel Sharon, to be followed by a meeting with Palestinian leaders in the West Bank.
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Foreign Secretary Jack Straw will join other foreign ministers from the leading industrialised nations and the Arab world today, gathering to discuss Iraq.
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Justice Secretary Jack Straw is meeting MPs to discuss killings committed by men who had been released on bail.
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British Prime Minister Tony Blair is in Jerusalem for meetings with Israeli and Palestinian leaders. He&#39;s hoping to get both sides to participate in a Mideast conference in London.
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UK Foreign Secretary Jack Straw arrives in Khartoum to discuss the problem of refugee security in the troubled region.
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British Prime Minister Tony Blair met the  moderate Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas on Monday to lend  him support after a shaky truce between Abbas's forces and the  Hamas government took effect in the Gaza Strip.
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Former British Prime Minister Tony Blair makes his first appearance as Mideast envoy Thursday, with international diplomats gathering to discuss ways to breath life into long-stalled peace talks between Israel and the Palestinians.
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UK Foreign Secretary Jack Straw is holding talks on security in Iraq with the country&#39;s interim prime minster. On Sunday Iyad Allawi met UK Premier Tony Blair who said Iraq had become the &quot;crucible of global terrorism&quot;.
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Israeli and Palestinian negotiators meet to discuss peace talks ahead of George Bush's visit to the region.