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News
By Anna Gawel
The Washington Diplomat
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Australia’s Rudd Makes First U.S. Visit
Australian Prime Minister Kevin Rudd made his first official state visit to the United States from March 27 to April 1 since the Labor Party leader resoundingly won national elections in November—meeting with President Bush, members of Congress, U.S. business leaders, as well as U.N. officials in New York...Read More
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Bush Reaches Out to Hispanic Businesses
Between immigration and free trade, the political discourse in the United States hasn’t exactly been encouraging for the country’s Hispanic business owners, but President Bush tried to inject a dose of optimism at the recent United States Hispanic Chamber of Commerce’s annual national convention in Washington...Read More
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Taking Breast Cancer Fight Abroad
Last month, Susan G. Komen for the Cure launched the Global Promise Fund to raise breast cancer awareness worldwide and promote the group’s new strategy of funding culturally sensitive, sustainable education and outreach programs around the globe...Read More
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Lifestyle
By Gail Scott
The Washington Diplomat
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Finland Reminds Us of Darfur
Finnish Ambassador Pekka Lintu hosted an embassy event to give more visability to the crisis of Darfur after having read and been “outraged” by Daoud Hari’s book, “The Translator: A Tribesman’s Memoir of Darfur.”...Read More
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Public Diplomacy Hits the Right Notes
Today, public diplomacy is all the rage, but back in the days of the Cold War, diplomacy was hush-hush and took place behind closed doors. That’s what makes the Meridian International Center’s latest exhibit, “Jam Session: America’s Jazz Ambassadors Embrace the World,” so exceptional...Read More
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Arab League Celebrates 63 Years
On March 28, Ambassador Hussein Hassouna and his wife Nevine celebrated 63 years of the League of Arab States with fellow Arab ambassadors and their spouses, as well as State Department, Capitol Hill, Pentagon and World Bank representatives...Read More
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Major Retrospective of Oswaldo Guayasamín
The first U.S. exhibit in almost 60 years of one of the most highly regarded and influential Latin American artists of the 20th century, Ecuador’s master painter and sculptor Oswaldo Guayasamín (1919-99), is now on view at the Organization of American States Art Museum of the Americas through May 29...Read More
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