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Rice Presses for Cooperation On Terror Efforts North Africa (The New York Sun)

7 Sep 2008 at 9:36pm  RABAT, Morocco ? Secretary of State Rice yesterday pressed American allies in North Africa for greater cooperation in the face of terrorism and efforts at political change as she ended a visit to the region. The top American diplomat said she discussed "the process of reform" in meetings with leaders in Libya, Tunisia, Algeria, and Morocco. Those talks, she said at a news conference with her ...

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Rice wraps up her North Africa visit (People's Daily)

7 Sep 2008 at 9:21pm  The U.S. Secretary of State Condaleezza Rice has wrapped up her visit to Morocco, the last leg of her four-nation tour in North Africa, the state MAP news agency reported on Sunday. Relations between Morocco and the United States were hailed as excellent by the Moroccan foreign ministry, MAP said, noting that Rice and her Moroccan counterpart Taieb Fassi Fihri raised the reforms introduced in ...

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Shanghai copper falls 2 pct, lags stock-led LME rout - Reuters India

7 Sep 2008 at 8:27pm  In the news > Metals fall on demand worries, inventory rise [nL5680995] > Chinese zinc prices seen sliding on oversupply [nSHA200719] > China to invest $3.1 bln in Tibet projects - Xinhu[nPEK178170] > China aluminium capacity to surge after summer ...

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S. Africa on time for World Cup - Straits Times

7 Sep 2008 at 7:44pm  BERLIN - MR Danny Jordaan, the chief executive of the organising committee for the 2010 World Cup, insisted on Sunday South Africa 'is on time' to host the tournament and dismissed rumours Germany could step in as a replacement. And Mr Jordaan said ...

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Witless Scots fail to fire in the cauldron - Guardian Unlimited

7 Sep 2008 at 7:36pm  The opposition was intimidating, unstable even, but disturbingly for Scotland the worst Macedonia had to offer was restrained behind steel fencing and brooding riot police. Macedonia's players were timid in comparison to their support in Skopje, yet ...

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