Kgalema Motlanthe this week slammed the attacks in Gaza, dubbing the offensive ”sheer savagery and brutality” that caused a ”deep sense of revulsion”.
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/ 13 December 2008
US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice was to hold talks next week with the UN on Zimbabwe, as Harare blamed Britain for a cholera outbreak.
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/ 5 December 2008
United States Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice on Friday called on Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe to step down.
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/ 4 December 2008
United States Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice said in Islamabad on Thursday that Pakistan gave assurances that it would root out terrorism.
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/ 4 December 2008
US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice made a trip to Pakistan on Thursday to urge the Pakistani government to take a ”tough line” on terrorism.
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/ 3 December 2008
The outgoing Bush administration was always going to leave president-elect Barack Obama with the problem of what to do about Pakistan.
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/ 3 December 2008
Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice was due in New Delhi on Wednesday as part of intense US efforts to ease tension between India and Pakistan.
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/ 26 November 2008
In normal life a picture tells a thousand words, but in politics, especially presidential races, the picture you do not take tells a thousand lies.
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/ 20 October 2008
In May the US state department told seven Fulbright scholars from Gaza their scholarships were cancelled.
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/ 25 September 2008
The West’s pillorying of Moscow over the invasion of Georgia has kindled a fierce Russian resentment that poses dangers for security in Europe.
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/ 20 September 2008
Russian President Dmitry Medvedev accused Nato of provoking the conflict with Georgia but said this did not mean Russia planned to isolate itself.
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/ 19 September 2008
US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice on Thursday night said President Dmitry Medvedev had launched Russia on a path to pariah status.
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/ 18 September 2008
Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice was to deliver on Thursday what officials describe as a ”significant” speech on US relations with Russia.
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/ 10 September 2008
Anyone who takes a closer look at recent events should not be surprised by what has happened in Georgia, writes the ambassador of the US to SA.
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/ 6 September 2008
Condoleezza Rice on Friday night became the most senior United States official to visit Libya in more than half a century.
The United States and Poland signed a deal on Wednesday to station parts of a US missile defence shield on Polish soil.
US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice warned Moscow on Monday that it was playing a dangerous game with the US and its Nato allies.
European leaders warned Russia on Sunday to withdraw its forces rapidly from Georgia or face unspecified consequences.
What began as a skirmish has become a tragedy of global importance.
Russian President Dmitry Medvedev signed a peace deal with Georgia on Saturday but his troops pushed even deeper toward the capital, Tbilisi.
The risk of a new era of East-West confrontation triggered by Russia’s invasion of Georgia heightened on Friday.
United States Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice arrived in Georgia on Friday to show Washington’s support for its embattled ally.
Libya and the US have signed a compensation deal for American victims of Libyan attacks and US reprisals, paving the way for normalisation of ties.
The US has shifted position on diplomacy with Iran by sending a senior envoy to participate in nuclear talks with Iran, the US confirmed on Friday.
Speculation is running wild that either, or even both, US presidential candidates will pick a woman as running mate.
The United States will defend its allies against Iranian aggression, US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice said on Thursday.
United States Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice on Sunday met children made homeless by the devastating earthquake that hit south-west China.
The White House on Sunday demanded that Zimbabwe’s government and its ”thugs” halt election violence immediately.
United States Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice, on a flying viisit to Beirut, said on Monday she wanted to back Lebanon’s democratic institutions.
In an apparent breakthrough for delivering help to millions of Burma’s cyclone survivors, the military government agreed to allow in ”all” aid workers, United Nations chief Ban Ki-moon said on Friday. The UN Secretary General met junta supremo Than Shwe in his remote new capital of Naypyidaw for more than two hours to ask him to permit more foreign expertise.
With an impassive handshake, BUrma junta supremo Than Shwe greeted Ban Ki-moon in his remote new capital on Friday at the apex of a high-stakes aid mission by the United Nations chief for the victims of Cyclone Nargis. The 75-year-old Senior General’s stony-faced silence gave no clues as to whether he would overcome his deep suspicions of the outside world.
Israel and Syria said in surprise announcements on Wednesday they were conducting indirect peace talks with Turkish mediation. Senior officials from both sides were currently in Turkey, an Israeli government official said. He would not confirm there had been direct contacts between the two delegations.