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by Matthew Lee from hosted.ap.org, 42 months ago
The world's seven largest economic powers on Monday urged Russia to accept an immediate cease-fire with Georgia and agree to international mediation over the growing crisis in Georgia's separatist areas that is verging on all-out war.... More
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by Matthew Lee from hosted.ap.org, 42 months ago
A U.S. official tells The Associated Press that the five permanent members of the U.N. Security Council and Germany have agreed to begin considering new sanctions on Iran after it failed to respond positively to an incentives package aimed at defusing the dispute over its... More
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by Matthew Lee from hosted.ap.org, 42 months ago
Six major world powers agreed Monday to seek new sanctions against Iran over its nuclear program after the country failed to meet a weekend deadline to respond to an offer intended to defuse the dispute... More
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by Matthew Lee from hosted.ap.org, 43 months ago
Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice said Thursday the Bush administration's decision to break with past policy and send a top diplomat to weekend talks with an Iranian envoy proves the international community is united in trying to eliminate threats from the Iranian nuclear... More
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by Matthew Lee from hosted.ap.org, 49 months ago
DAVOS, Switzerland (AP) -- Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice pressed Pakistani leader Pervez Musharraf on Wednesday to ensure that next month's elections are free and fair and urged him to boost counterterrorism cooperation with the U.S. and neighboring Afghanistan.... More
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by Matthew Lee from hosted.ap.org, 20 months ago
WASHINGTON (AP) -- U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton said Sunday she thinks Iran will "pull some stunt" in the next few days because it expects further United Nations sanctions over its nuclear program.... More
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by Matthew Lee from hosted.ap.org, 20 months ago
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton travels to Latin America and the Caribbean with a crowded agenda awaiting: lingering tensions over last year's coup in Honduras, U.S. immigration policy, security issues and concerns over Iran and the Middle East.... More
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by Matthew Lee from hosted.ap.org, 20 months ago
WASHINGTON (AP) -- But will she be amused?... More
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by Matthew Lee from hosted.ap.org, 20 months ago
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Call it baseball diplomacy.... More
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by Matthew Lee, Robert Burns from hosted.ap.org, 20 months ago
WASHINGTON (AP) -- A 19-year-old man with dual U.S.-Turkish citizenship was among the nine people killed in the Israeli raid on an aid flotilla in the eastern Mediterranean, the State Department said Thursday. That potentially complicates the Obama administration's attempts to remain neutral in ... More
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by Matthew Lee from hosted.ap.org, 20 months ago
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Tens of millions of dollars in federal property is missing or unaccounted for at the U.S. Embassy in Baghdad, the largest U.S. diplomatic mission abroad, according to an internal State Department audit released Wednesday.... More
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by Matthew Lee from hosted.ap.org, 20 months ago
WASHINGTON (AP) -- A State Department audit says millions of dollars worth of federal property assigned to the U.S. Embassy in Baghdad is missing or unaccounted for.... More
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by Matthew Lee, Karin Laub from hosted.ap.org, 20 months ago
WASHINGTON (AP) -- One of the casualties of Israel's deadly commando raid on a Turkish vessel carrying aid to Palestinians in the Gaza Strip may be the Obama administration's diplomatic strategy in the Mideast.... More
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by Matthew Lee from hosted.ap.org, 20 months ago
BEIJING (AP) -- Hillary Rodham Clinton tolerates but doesn't share her husband's appetite for violent action movies. Her daughter's upcoming wedding is "the most important" thing in her life. And she thinks Timothy Geithner has great hair.... More
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by Matthew Lee from hosted.ap.org, 20 months ago
SHANGHAI (AP) -- Citing "overwhelming" evidence that North Korea sank a South Korean warship, U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton warned the communist state Friday of international consequences.... More
