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/ 13 October 2009
The Pentagon is speeding up delivery of a bomb designed to destroy hidden weapons bunkers buried underground and shielded by 4 535kg of concrete.
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
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.
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
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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/ 7 February 2005
United States Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice on Monday promised active US involvement in Middle East peacemaking, saying Washington will dispatch a high-level ”security coordinator” to the region and send more than -million in immediate aid to the Palestinians.
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
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.