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Al Jazeera
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Cheney said: "We'll stand with others to prevent Iran from gaining nuclear weapons and dominating this region."
Gulf meetings
On Saturday, he will make a fence-mending visit to Saudi Arabia.
Riyadh, long a key American ally in the Middle East,..
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Al Jazeera
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After his visit to the diplomat, Stocker told The Associated Press that he saw wounds on Sharafi's body that "were several weeks old", but said he did not know how the injuries occurred.
"I cannot say who did it and where it happened," the ICRC offici..
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CNN
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Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has canceled a planned visit to the United Nations, and Tehran's U.N. ambassador, Javad Zarif, on Friday blamed a delay in U.S. visas being issued to the crew of his airplane.
Ahmadinejad wanted to speak to the U.N..
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BBC News
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A top UN official is due in Zimbabwe for a five-day visit ahead of the presidential run-off, which continues to be marred by political violence.
Haile Menkerios is expected to meet politicians to discuss the situation in the run-up to the 27 June vote...
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BBC News
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The UN nuclear agency has said that Syria is to allow inspectors to visit the country to investigate allegations that it was building a nuclear reactor.
The International Atomic Energy Agency says its inspectors are due in Syria between the 22 and 24 J..
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MSNBC
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Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice made an unannounced visit Tuesday to the city that Iraq's Kurds call their Jerusalem, an oil-rich territory claimed by many where the United States says it sees new signs of cooperation and progress.
Rice was seeing..
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BBC News
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Representatives of Uganda's northern Lord Resistance Army (LRA) rebels are due in Kampala for their first visit to the capital without fear of arrest.
They are being accompanied by some of the mediators and observers from the talks taking place in sout..
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MSNBC
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Turkey is running out of patience and will not tolerate the use of Iraqi soil for the purpose of launching terrorist activities, the Turkish president said Thursday ahead of a visit from a high-level Iraqi delegation.
Turkey has threatened to stage an..
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BBC News
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Russian President Vladimir Putin is in Iran for a historic visit, the first by a Kremlin leader since Stalin joined a summit there in World War II.
Mr Putin attended a summit of heads of countries in the Caspian Sea area and is set to meet Iran's leade..
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BBC News
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A delegation of influential elder statesmen led by Archbishop Desmond Tutu is travelling to Darfur to try to find solutions to the conflict.
The "Elders" will be talking to local community leaders and to displaced people living in camps.
The visit c..
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BBC News
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UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon is visiting Sudan's western Darfur region, where a four-year conflict has claimed 200,000 lives and displaced millions.
Mr Ban visited a refugee camp. He said he wanted to be able to finalise a date and venue for peace..
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MSNBC
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The French foreign minister arrived in Baghdad on groundbreaking visit Sunday after years of icy relations with U.S. over Iraq.
Bernard Kouchner's plane touched down at Baghdad International Airport at about 6 p.m. His arrival was announced simultaneou..
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FOX News
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Ehud Olmert on Monday became the first Israeli prime minister to visit a Palestinian town since the outbreak of fighting seven years ago, meeting under heavy guard with Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas to talk about the creation of a Palestinian state...
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Al Jazeera
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The five Iranians were detained during a raid on what Tehran says was an Iranian consular building in Irbil in the autonomus Kurdish region of northern Iraq. Hoshiyar Zebari, Iraqi foreign minister, said he hoped the visit, which lasted several hours, wou..
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Washington Post
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Martin S. Indyk, a former U.S. ambassador to Israel, is director of the Saban Center for Middle East Policy at the Brookings Institution. In an interview Friday, he outlined two major topics for discussion at the Bush-Olmert meeting:
Palestinians
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CNN
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Britain's next prime minister, Gordon Brown, assured Iraq's leaders of continued British support on Monday as he made a flying visit to Baghdad to "listen and learn" before he takes office later this month.
Brown, who is pondering Britain's future invo..
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BBC News
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The UN's emergency relief co-ordinator has cut short a visit to Somalia's capital amid fresh security concerns.
John Holmes's arrival in Mogadishu coincided with several bomb blasts, one of which killed four people near the UN compound in the city...
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Al Jazeera
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Attorneys for Chaudhry said the judge would go ahead with his visit to Karachi to address lawyers despite worry about clashes with government supporters, who will hold their own rally, and a request from authorities to cancel because of fears of terrorism..
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CBS News
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Iraqis in the capital said Tuesday that Sen. John McCain's account of a heavily guarded visit to a central market did not represent the current reality in Baghdad, with one calling it "propaganda."
Jaafar Moussa Thamir, a 42-year-old who sells electric..
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Guardian Unlimited
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UN secretary general Ban Ki-moon was left shaken but unhurt on his first visit to Baghdad today after a rocket landed yards from where he and Iraq's prime minister were holding a press conference.
Mr Ban, who flew into Baghdad this morning, ducked behi..
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