US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice has arrived in Tripoli for a landmark meeting with Libyan leader Muhammar Ghadhaffi.
She is the first top American diplomat in more than half a century to visit the North African country. Her visit marks the full renewal of US relations with Tripoli, which were suspended in the early 1980s. This came shortly after Washington placed Libya on its list of state sponsors of terrorism. Tripoli has been implicated in a number of attacks, including Rice in landmark visit to Libya ...
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(Deutsche Welle)
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