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Topic: Lloyd Axworthy
Lloyd Axworthy is the subject or is mentioned in the following stories:

A peek at (secret) briefing notes

U.S. President George W. Bush had a few choice words for Canada's Foreign Minister Maxime Bernier when he saw his official companion Julie Couillard. "Well, well, well," Bush said: "Haven't you been keeping good company."

Region Roundups

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TRIPOLI – A delegation from Amnesty International made its first trip to Libya since 1988 last weekend, meeting Libyan officials in Tripoli to discuss human rights in the country.

No solution yet to Ethiopia-Eritrea rivalry

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Eritrea has “questioned” the role of the envoy UN chief Kofi Annan appointed last week to end an impasse in the peace process between Ethiopia and Eritrea, insisting that the onus for progress lay with its neighbor.

Threat of famine stalks Afghanistan

GIFT BOX: A REFUGEE SHOULDERS HER FAMILY'S SHARE OF THE FOOD AID HANDED OUT AT A CAMP NEAR DESHITIQALA, IN NORTHERN AFGHANISTAN.

Child soldiers will go home with help from Sudan

Senior ministers from four countries agreed on a plan on September 17 to return home thousands of children in southern Sudan who were forcibly recruited as soldiers by a Ugandan rebel group.

Nuclear have and have-not states battle it out at the UN

Impatient at the slow progress in arms control, governments from Brazil to New Zealand told the United States and other nuclear powers April 24 that they have to do more to make the world safer.

Canada drops bid to discuss Sudan in U.N. council

Canada has dropped a plan to get the Security Council to discuss the situation in civil war-torn Sudan this month, as a result of representations by Arab and other countries, council president Robert Fowler of Canada said on Tuesday.

Canadian firms feel the heat of Sudan policy

Human rights groups dealt another blow on February 24 to Ottawa's much-criticized policy on Sudan by breaking off contact with a major Canadian oil company accused of worsening the 17-year Sudanese civil war.
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