United States Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice insisted there was no reason to speak of a new Cold War with Russia as she arrived in Moscow on Monday for talks aimed at halting a dramatic slide in relations. Parallels drawn by some Russian officials with the era of the East-West Cold War were misplaced, Rice said as she prepared for meetings.
United States Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice shuttled between Israeli and Palestinian leaders for a second day on Monday as Arab states revived a five-year-old peace plan to positive noises from Israel, whose Prime Minister, Ehud Olmert, said he was willing to join a meeting of Arab leaders.
A run of tell-all books on United States President George Bush’s handling of Iraq and the war on terror has cast a harsh light on one of the administration’s biggest stars: Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice. The books place Rice alongside Defence Secretary Donald Rumsfeld at the centre of a host of strategic miscalculations bureaucratic backstabbing and dodgy spin-doctoring.