President Bush Hails Kosovo's Independence
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Early indicators show thin support for Musharraf in some key hubs, but a final tally is days away.
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NEW YORK -- President Bush said Wednesday that Afghanistan is becoming a safer, more stable country, thanks to the efforts of President Hamid Karzai.
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President George W. Bush arrived in Albania on Sunday, the first visit by a U.S. leader to the Balkan state which has prepared the kind of welcome he could only dream of in many countries.
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Investor's Business Daily - Serbia will never surrender Kosovo to the breakaway province&#39;s ethnic Albanian majority or trade its territory for European Union or NATO membership, President Boris Tadic said. A day earlier, he said President Bush had &quot;disgusted&quot; Serbs by promising independence to Kosovo and would not be forgiven.
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US President George W. Bush said that he saw a &quot;great chance&quot; to create an independent Palestinian state living at peace with Israel by the time he leaves office in 2009.
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President Bush praised Iraqi Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki as a "strong leader" on Thursday and said he agreed with him that any partition of Iraq would only increase violence.
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Kosovo will get independence from Serbia  &quot;one way or another&quot; despite Russia&#39;s objections at the United  Nations, U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice said on  Thursday.
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President George W. Bush said on Sunday  the United Nations should grant independence quickly to the  breakaway Serbian province of Kosovo, and if Russia continued  to block it the West would act.
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Europe's major powers and the United States said on Monday they recognized Kosovo's new independence, as Serbs reacted with anger and some states warned that its secession from Serbia set a dangerous precedent.
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At a news conference with Prime Minister Tony Blair, President Bush said there was a "great chance" to create a Palestinian state.
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United Nations chief Ban Ki-moon expressed hope on Monday that meetings between U.S. President George W. Bush and Russian President Vladimir Putin would lead to a breakthrough over Kosovo's independence.
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PRISTINA, Serbia  - U.S. President George W. Bush met on Tuesday with a senior ethnic Albanian leader from Kosovo, as Washington pushes for a United Nations vote within days on the province's bid for independence from Serbia.
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President George W. Bush said that after the death of Yasser Arafat there was now a &quot;great chance&quot; to create an independent Palestinian state living at peace with Israel by the time he leaves office in 2009.
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President Bush expressed American  condolences late on Wednesday for the death of Palestinian  leader Yasser Arafat and called it "a significant moment" for  the Palestinians in their bid for peace and an independent  state.
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U.S. President George W. Bush on Sunday  visits Albania which hopes to receive reassuring words on  backing for its NATO membership bid and the future independence  of breakaway Kosovo.
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US President George W. Bush praised presidents Hamid Karzai of Afghanistan and Pervez Musharraf of Pakistan as &quot;two courageous leaders&quot; worthy of US help as they prepared for three-way talks next week.
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American flags flutter almost everywhere in Kosovo, a symbol of how Â through successive Democratic and Republican administrations Â the U.S. has long been a friend of this nation in the making.