Anne Gearan
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/ 7 March 2006

US looks to Cold War foe on Iran

The Bush administration is getting closer to a United Nations Security Council rebuke of Iran, but the latest round of diplomacy shows the United States needs the help of Cold War foe Russia to close the deal. Iran is offering to suspend full-scale uranium enrichment for up to two years, a diplomat said on Tuesday.

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/ 26 December 2005

Why Condoleezza Rice’s star is rising

United States Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice has become the most popular member of the Bush administration and a potential candidate to succeed her boss in the White House, even as Americans lose confidence in the president she serves and patience with the Iraq war she helped launch.

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/ 21 July 2005

Rice says there is progress in Darfur crisis

United States Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice said the US is making a difference to relieve a refugee crisis and African peacekeeping troops are helping to stop atrocities in Sudan’s ravaged Darfur province. ”We are not where we were a year ago,” Rice said on Wednesday, ahead of her first trip to Sudan as secretary of state

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/ 20 July 2005

US wants increased African farm imports

The United States already buys large amounts of oil from Africa, but both places would benefit from increased trade in an array of other goods, especially farm products, US officials say. US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice on Wednesday addressed African producers attending a trade conference in Dakar, Senegal.

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/ 29 June 2004

US court blocks online porn law

The United States Supreme Court ruled on Tuesday that a law meant to punish pornographers who peddle dirty pictures to web-surfing kids is probably an unconstitutional muzzle on free speech. The high court divided five to four over a law passed in 1998 and now backed by the administration of President George Bush.

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/ 30 December 2003

Even Saddam has legal options

The deposed Iraqi leader could harken back to the trials of Nazi leaders and Japanese commanders after World War II to fight expected charges of genocide and war crimes, claiming he never personally killed anyone or that he had no control over atrocities committed in his name, defence lawyers and scholars say.