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The criticisms, in an opinion article in the influential newspaper Le Monde, followed a string of diplomatic embarrassments for France, many involving Tunisia.

In the past year, the North has prompted a string of diplomatic crises by enriching uranium, expelling inspectors from the International Atomic Energy Agency IAEAA), extricating itself from the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty and extracting plutonium (despite a 1994 agreement to freeze plutonium production).

Even as the North Korean leader, Kim Jong Il, has pursued a string of diplomatic initiatives, the Pentagon's report warns that the North Korean Army has deployed "large numbers" of rocket launchers and artillery batteries along the demilitarized zone between the North and the South.

What else, yawn the cynics, is new?France has been an awkward member of the western alliance ever since the end of the second world war, witness a string of diplomatic clashes with America over the Suez campaign in 1956; over France's colonies in North Africa and elsewhere; over France's insistence on its own nuclear force de frappe; and over its decision to leave NATO's military structure.

Neruda bought the land and an adjacent stone cottage in 1938 after returning from a string of diplomatic postings in Europe.

The incident is the latest in a string of escalating diplomatic moves between the two countries after the plane was downed.

But with a string of "bilats" — diplomatic jargon for bilateral, or one-on-one, meetings between world leaders — facing the president at the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation forum, Mr. Obama and his irritable press pool had little choice but to soldier on.

British merchant ships will still be allowed to dock in South American ports.In this section Oil, water and trouble Rocking the boat Stateless ReprintsNevertheless, the new Mercosur policy is the latest in a string of small diplomatic victories for Argentina, which is keen to regionalise what has always been a bilateral dispute.

In this context, the report on Habyarimana's plane is the latest in a yearlong string of diplomatic and political moves that show the new Rwandan government achieving a level of sophistication, skill, and effectiveness in commanding international respect that has rarely, if ever, been seen before in Africa.

In 1802, after a string of military and diplomatic victories, another plebiscite endowed him with the position for life.

It was one of the largest in a string of attacks on diplomatic missions since the end of his rule, and the first major one in the capital.