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Foreign Secretary David Miliband is today due to meet Syrian President Bashar al-Assad in the latest stage of a visit to the Middle East which has already involved talks with senior figures in Israel and the Palestinian territories.
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President Bashar al-Assad of Syria said Monday that indirect talks his country has held with Israel could move to direct talks and conclude with a peace deal.
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The Verkhovna Rada, Ukraine's parliament, should immediately hold a special meeting and hear a report by the Ukrainian government and the nation joint-stock company Naftogaz Ukrainy on the situation in the gas sector and the state of negotiations with Russia regarding gas prices, Communist Party of Ukraine (CPU) leader Petro Symonenko has said.
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Treasury officials were today in Iceland for urgent talks after the collapse of the country's banking sector left councils and charities in Britain facing losses of up to £1 billion.
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G7 finance chiefs prepare to hold talks
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General Motors Corp. and Chrysler LLC have held preliminary talks about a merger or an acquisition of Chrysler by GM, according to published reports late Friday.
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General Motors and Chrysler, bruised by the severe industry downturn, have held preliminary discussions about combining operations, including a full-scale merger, according to people familiar with the talks. It was unclear over the weekend whether the discussions were progressing and what, if anything, would result.
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Rival Greek- and Turkish-Cypriot leaders held private talks on Friday in a bid to speed up slow-moving negotiations on reunifying the divided Mediterranean island. President Dimitris Christo-fias and Turkish Cypriot leader Mehmet Ali Talat met alone for a hour before
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Peace talks begin after Thai-Cambodian fighting at disputed border area.
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US President Bush is set to hold economic talks at with France's President Sarkozy and European Commision President Barroso.
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Prime Minister Somchai Wongsawat said he would seek face-to-face talks with Cambodia’s leader, Hun Sen, to try to ease a growing border conflict over a 900-year-old mountaintop temple.
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President Robert Mugabe prevented the opposition leader Morgan Tsvangirai from attending power-sharing talks by refusing to give him a passport.
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President Robert Mugabe of Zimbabwe prevented the opposition leader Morgan Tsvangirai from attending power-sharing talks by refusing to give him a passport.
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HELSINKI, Finland -- The top U.S. military officer held "businesslike" talks on Georgia, Afghanistan and missile defense with his Russian counterpart Tuesday, a signal of thawing relations between the two powers.
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Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao and visiting Denish Prime Minister Anders Fogh Rasmussen on Wednesday agreed to establish comprehensive strategic partnership between the two nations. Wen told Rasmussen during their talks that both sides shared strong desire to lift the level
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CBC has learned the federal government will hold a meeting next week with survivors of residential schools as well as aboriginal and church leaders to determine a course for the beleaguered Truth and Reconciliation Commission.
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Australia, South Africa and New Zealand are in talks over the setting up of a southern hemisphere Twenty20 franchise league.
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SEOUL (Reuters) - Military officers from the divided Koreas held talks on Monday aimed at easing tension while South Korean activists planned to send anti-Pyongyang leaflets into the North despite heated protests from the communist state.
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Working-level military officers met Monday to discuss improving their lines of communication amid strained ties between the divided nations, officials said.
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Working-level military officers from North Korea and South Korea are to meet today to discuss improving their lines of communication amid strained ties between the divided nations.
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SEOUL (Reuters) - North Korea complained during rare military talks with the South on Monday about anti-Pyongyang leaflets being sent into its territory by balloons, with a South Korean civic group sending a new batch over the communist state.
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Israeli legislators agreed to set Feb. 10 as the date for early elections following the resignation of Prime Minister Ehud Olmert (pictured). Opinion polls suggest the ruling Kadima party, now led by Tzipi Livni (pictured) is likely to win.
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China will hold a new round of talks with representatives of the Dalai Lama, state media reported Wednesday, days after the exiled spiritual leader said he had given up on persuading Beijing to allow greater autonomy for Tibet.
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GOMA, Congo (AP) -- With a cease-fire appearing to halt most fighting, a rebel leader said Thursday he wanted direct talks with the Congo government. Envoys from the U.S. and U.N. were sent in to help set up negotiations....
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Congo rejects one-on-one talks with rebel leader
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GOMA, Congo, Nov. 4 -- Congo's government on Tuesday rejected a rebel leader's demand for direct talks to resolve a conflict that has left hundreds of thousands of people hungry and homeless in a mineral-rich eastern province.
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The leader of Hamas in the Gaza Strip said he is ready and willing to hold talks with US president-elect Barack Obama. The Islamist movement is listed as a terrorist organisation by the EU, USA and Israel.
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Israel Opposition leader Benjamin Netanyahu says he will not continue the Annapolis peace talks if elected.
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Man City boss Mark Hughes will fly out to Abu Dhabi on Tuesday evening for talks with owner Sheikh Mansour.
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Rebel Gen. Laurent Nkunda says he will take the country if pushed.
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Prime Minister Gordon Brown has met Afghan president Hamid Karzai at Downing Street amid fresh violence in Afghanistan.
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Ukrainian President Viktor Yuschenko is planning to hold talks with the leaders of parliament's factions on Monday regarding the election of a candidate for the post of Verkhovna Rada chairman.
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To replace the 1991 Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty
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Merkel to hold crisis Opel talks Opel on Monday
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President Hamid Karzai of Afghanistan said he would guarantee the safety of Mullah Muhammad Omar in exchange for a peace deal.
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