Goff names new ambassador to Spain
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New Zealand's new ambassador to Spain will be career diplomat Geoff Ward, Foreign Minister Phil Goff announced today.
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U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice  arrived in Spain for what is meant to be a fence-mending trip  on Friday but her first words were of reproach for its policy  of engaging Cuba.
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Ursula Plassnik, Cabinet chief in Chancellor Wolfgang Schuessel - s government since January, will become the nation - s new foreign minister, it was reported today.
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David Gockley will become general director of the San Francisco Opera after three decades of running the Houston Grand Opera.
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WASHINGTON, Aug 18  - Rordigo Rato, the new head of the International Monetary Fund, will visit South America in early September, including Argentina, the IMF said on Wednesday, as tensions mount over the country&#39;s three-year loan program with ...
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Newly-appointed US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice's travels attract much press comment, while Spanish foreign policy comes under fire.
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A Senate panel yesterday approved the nomination of Representative Porter Goss, Republican of Florida, to head the CIA, overcoming Democrats&#39; objections that Goss was too political for the job.
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Syrian Foreign Minister Walid al-Mouallem arrived in Madrid on Thursday for a meeting with his Spanish counterpart Miguel Angel Moratinos that will focus on unrest in the Middle East.
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President Bashar al-Assad received yesterday morning at al-Rawda Palace the Spanish Foreign Minister Miguel Angel Moratinos and an accompanying delegation.
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The Spanish Foreign Ministry summons Cuba's ambassador after an opposition politician is expelled from the island.
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The Senate on Monday confirmed Carlos Gutierrez as the new commerce secretary, a position in which he will lead the Bush administration's efforts to revive the country's beleaguered manufacturing sector.
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The ambassador for the Dominican Republic,    Hugo Guiliani Cury, says one of his great challenges in representing a small country at peace has been attracting the attention of officials and policymakers in Washington.
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SANTANDER has unexpectedly unveiled a Spaniard as the next chief executive of Abbey - defying expectations that a British banker was in line for the job.
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US President George W. Bush on Wednesday named White House counsel Alberto Gonzales as attorney general, making him the first Hispanic to hold a cabinet post in any US administration.
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WASHINGTON -- A new US agriculture secretary was named yesterday, a development welcomed by the Canadian Cattlemen&#39;s Association at a critical juncture for resolving the beef battle with Canada.
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Corrects spelling of U.S. ambassador's name in paragraph three to Schieffer
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Newport Beach's George Argyros is back from his three-year stint as U.S. ambassador to Spain.