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BBC News
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Irish Foreign Minister Micheal Martin has said it is "far too early" to seek a solution to the Irish rejection of a European Union reform treaty.
He spoke ahead of talks by EU foreign ministers on how to respond to the Irish No vote on the Lisbon Treat..
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SF Gate
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The United States delivered its first relief supplies to Myanmar on Monday, as the U.N. urged the reclusive nation to open its doors to foreign experts who can help up to 2 million cyclone victims facing disease and starvation.
The military C-130 cargo..
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BBC News
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South Korea's incoming president wants to scrap a ministry handling relations with North Korea, his aides say.
Lee Myung-bak, who takes office on 25 February, will merge the Unification Ministry with the Foreign Ministry.
Four other ministries are b..
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United Press International
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Faced with U.S. economic sanctions and a weak dollar, Tehran is demanding foreign energy companies do business in yen and euros, despite increasingly desperate need for investment.
In a deal announced last week, Japan’s Nippon Oil agreed to buy oil f..
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CNN
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The Russian explorers who planted a flag beneath the North Pole have made a triumphant homecoming and say they do not care about foreign critics who have complained their mission was a crude land grab. "The Arctic always was Russian, and it will remain Ru..
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CNN
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New British Foreign Secretary David Miliband, seeking to quash speculation that London may distance itself from Washington over Iraq, insisted on Sunday the United States was still Britain's number one ally. "It is the single most important bilateral rela..
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New York Times
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President Vladimir V. Putin seemed to obliquely compare the foreign policy of the United States to the Third Reich in a speech on Wednesday commemorating the 62nd anniversary of the defeat of Nazi Germany.
The comments were the latest in a series of sh..
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My Way News
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President Hugo Chavez ordered by decree on Monday the takeover of oil projects run by foreign oil companies in Venezuela's Orinoco River region.
Chavez had previously announced the government's intention to take a majority stake by May 1 in four heavy..
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Reuters
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Italy's president asked Romano Prodi to stay on as prime minister on Saturday, but he now faces a confidence vote in parliament to prove he has enough support to govern. Prodi resigned on Wednesday after he was defeated on foreign policy in the upper h..
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www.thepeninsulaqatar.com
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Thousands of Chinese villagers clashed with riot police after barricading officials and foreign businessmen in a warehouse they said has been built on illegally seized land, a newspaper reported yesterday...
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BBC News
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Russian President Dmitry Medvedev is heading to Kazakhstan, the first stop in his maiden foreign trip since taking over as Russian leader.
Mr Medvedev will hold meetings in the oil-rich Central Asian state, before going to China on Friday.
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MSNBC
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With Foreign Minister Nyan Win present, Ban said that he wanted to see the delivery of foreign aid and the deployment of aid workers carried out in a "more systematic way."
U.N. official Dan Baker said that junta leader, Senior Gen. Than Shwe, would Fr..
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BBC News
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EU foreign ministers are meeting in Brussels to seek a joint position on Kosovo's independence declaration.
While the major European powers are widely expected to recognise Kosovo's independence from Serbia, several other countries have strong reservat..
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BBC News
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The Russian foreign ministry has summoned the UK ambassador amid an escalating row over the reopening of two British Council offices.
The Council's branches reopened on Monday despite a government ban.
Russia called the move a "provocation" and said..
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BBC News
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The Russian government has ordered the British Council to close down its two offices outside Moscow by the beginning of January.
The Russian foreign ministry said the council, which promotes British culture abroad, was operating illegally.
The UK go..
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Yahoo News
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The U.N. General Assembly voted for the 16th straight year Tuesday to urge the United States to end its trade embargo against Cuba, whose foreign minister accused the U.S. of stepping up its "brutal economic war" to new heights.
The 192-member world bo..
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CNN
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British Foreign Secretary David Miliband pulled out of a meeting with his Saudi Arabian counterpart in London Monday, but the Foreign Office insisted it was for personal reasons and not a snub.
Miliband has just adopted a baby son and is taking time of..
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Al Jazeera
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Zimbabwe's ruling party has pushed a bill through parliament giving local owners majority control of foreign-owned companies including mines and banks.
The ZANU-PF party led by Robert Mugabe, the president, pushed through the bill on Wednesday after me..
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FOX News
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Britain has asked the United States to release five British residents from the military prison in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, the Foreign Office said Tuesday.
Foreign Secretary David Miliband has written to Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice asking that the..
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BBC News
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The UK government has requested the release of five British residents from US custody at Guantanamo Bay.
The men are not British citizens but lived in the UK before they were detained by the US.
The request is a change of policy for the government w..
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