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Irish official snubs Savannah over all-male meal

...parade in the South, to avoid a dinner where only men are allowed.Eamon Gilmore, who as deputy prime minister and foreign minister is essentially Ireland's No. 2 politician, instead made stops in Atlanta and New Orleans.Gilmore told the Irish...

http://chronicle.augusta.com/news/metro/2013-03-16/irish-official-snubs-savannah
North Korean launch failed

...missile.U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton, speaking for the Group of Eight nations after their foreign ministers met in Washington, said Thursday that all the members of the bloc agreed to be prepared to take further action against...

http://chronicle.augusta.com/latest-news/2012-04-12/north-korean-launch-may-have
Left-wing leader rejects Greek commitment to austerity in attempt to form coalition government

...agreed budget cuts."The end of the debt policy has been agreed in Europe. It has to stay that way," said German Foreign Minister Guido Westerwelle. European Commission President Jose Manuel Barroso stressed that member states must implement...

http://chronicle.augusta.com/news/business/2012-05-08/left-wing-leader-rejects-g
Russia presses EU for help with visas, technology

...is Russia's No. 1 trading partner, and EU nations account for 80 percent of all investment in Russia.Deputy Foreign Minister Alexander Grushko urged European leaders to show political will and scrap entry visas for Russians."We would like...

http://chronicle.augusta.com/news/business/2010-05-30/russia-presses-eu-help-vis
Business
Local group condemns NYC bomb plot

...of our nation and its citizens.The U.S. ambassador to Islamabad, Anne Patterson, held talks with Pakistani Foreign Minister Shah Mehmood Qureshi on this issue. Mr. Qureshi assured Pakistan's full cooperation to the United States in this...

http://chronicle.augusta.com/opinion/letters/2010-05-14/local-group-condemns-nyc
Letters
Japan worries Toyota woes might hurt U.S. ties

...Prius and other hybrids, bringing its global total to 8.5 million vehicles for faulty gas pedals and brakes, Foreign Minister Katsuya Okada expressed concern that the problem could become a political headache."I'm worried," Okada said...

http://chronicle.augusta.com/news/business/2010-02-12/japan-worries-toyota-woes-
Business
Greece's woes affect entire European Union

...and could see other struggling eurozone economies get in line for aid.Bernard Valero, a spokesman for France's foreign minister, said Tuesday that "we must help" Greece. "It's about helping a friend ... we are the European family...

http://chronicle.augusta.com/news/business/2010-02-09/greeces-woes-affect-entire
Business
GM bankruptcy likely

...for General Motors Corp.'s Europe-based Opel unit. While meeting at the Chancellery in Berlin, above, the foreign minister said "the lights must not go out" on Opel even as its parent company heads for bankruptcy. Opel's supervisory...

http://chronicle.augusta.com/stories/2009/05/28/bus_525528.shtml
Business
Rants and Raves

...is to learn that you can't spend what you don't have. Maybe that lesson will now hit home. FOURTEEN FORMER foreign ministers and peace negotiators tell the U.S. and Israel that to make peace with Hamas the U.S. and Israel must "change...

http://chronicle.augusta.com/news/metro/2009-03-07/rants-and-raves
Metro | Rants and raves
Obama's first foreign policy crisis

...elections. "Israel must topple Hamas rule in Gaza and a government under my command will do just that," vows Foreign Minister Tzipi Livni, leader of the governing Kadima party. Not to be outdone, Benjamin Netanyahu, leader of the rival...

http://chronicle.augusta.com/stories/2008/12/23/edi_505018.shtml
Editorials