'There are a number of different interests that we have in common'.
Not committing himself to the Indian request, Howard had said that his country wanted more details on the Indo-US nuclear agreement.
China has ruled out talks with the exiled Tibetan spiritual leader, Dalai Lama, unless he renounces his quest for Tibetan independence.
President George W Bush on Friday night left Delhi for Pakistan.
The European press has been dominated by stories about 'black site' interrogation centres and CIA flights for Islamic militants.
Rice, 50, will become the first female black secretary of state if she accepts the offer.
Powell has been asked to stay till a replacement is found.
she said it is not appropriate for a country like India to cling on to this.
Take more steps towards reform: Rice tells UN
The White House has declined to comment on India's demand that Pakistan should hand over twenty fugitives as a sign of good faith in the aftermath of the terror attacks in Mumbai and has left the issue for discussion during Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice's visit to New Delhi."I saw reports about it, but I will not comment on it and let Rice do the talking. Let her try to work out on issues. I don't want to get in front of anything she's working on," said an official.
Congress president and United Progressive Alliance chief Sonia Gandhi is the world's third most powerful woman after US National Security Advisor Condoleezza Rice and Chinese Vice-premier Wu Yi, Forbes magazine said on Friday.
'With good allies in places like Pakistan, we are getting information that is more detailed and more specific than we had before about terrorists' plans,' the US National Security Adviser said.
Describing the meeting as "a very good one", Foreign Secretary Shyam Saran told reporters that basically what 'she (Rice) did was to set the stage for the important meeting between President Bush and the prime minister'
The delegation accompanying President George W Bush to the funeral of Pope John Paul II will include former presidents George H W Bush and Bill Clinton and Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice.
Blackwill asked India to engage in a major way to help build a civil society in Iraq.
The text of US Congressman Joe Pitts' letter to Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice requesting that Modi be denied permission to enter the country.
The main focus of US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice's talks in New Delhi will be the increasingly cordial Indo-US relations.
Image of Condi Rice's testimony to Senate on the plan to send more troops to Iraq.
Singh spoke to Rice over telephone on Thursday and congratulated her on her confirmation as US Secretary of State, an External Affairs Ministry spokesman said.
The US senate will now have to approve Mulford's nomination, which was announced by the White House on Thursday.
That she turned down the post of the prime minister was simply flabbergasting, the daily said.
President Musharraf was speaking to The New York Times.
there is a small minority of extremists in the Muslim world who indeed hate and will always hate America, said national security adviser Condoleezza Rice.
The government on Tuesday categorically said that the United States had not any objections on the Iran-Pakistan-India gas pipeline project with New Delhi.
Voicing "concern" over the proposed Iran-Pakistan-India gas pipeline, the United States has said that it was sharing its feelings with the two South Asian nations in a "constructive" manner and not in a "negative way".
During his recent visit to India, Australian Prime Minister John Howard had hinted at a softening of Canberra's stand as the two countries decided to set up a group of officials to study the Indo-US Civil nuclear deal.
Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice has said in an interview to the Washington Post that there was 'no contradiction' between encouraging Islamabad to advance towards democracy.
"The US is closely watching the events in Kyrgyzstan in the wake of the country's disputed elections and desires a process that will lead to a stable outcome in which new elections can be held," Secretary of State\nCondoleezza Rice said on Friday.
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