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With a big election victory, Abbas voices optimism for new peace talksGaza Strip - Fresh from a landslide victory in the Palestinian presidential election that won him ringing endorsements from world leaders, Mahmoud Abbas has expressed hope for new peace negotiations after four years of violence. |
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Abbas and Sharon prepare to rekindle Israeli-Palestinian dialogueJerusalem, Israel - Israelis and Palestinians prepared for a resumption of dialogue between their top leaders after a four-year hiatus as a long-awaited streamlining of the sprawling Palestinian security services was unveiled. |
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Peace deal in Sudan brings hope to five million refugeesNairobi, Kenya - The Sudanese government signed a peace treaty with southern rebels to end a civil war in a colourful ceremony yesterday, even as the United Nations warned that the war in Darfur in the west of the country was getting worse. |
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Kenyan president rejects law allowing sport killing of wildlifeNairobi, Kenya - Kenyan President Mwai Kibaki vetoed Friday a law enacted by parliament to allow sport hunting and killing of wildlife straying onto private land, which critics said would have hobbled conservation efforts. |
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Settlement in sight in one of Sudan’s conflictsWashington DC - Suffering continues in war-ravaged western Sudan. But to the south, after 21 years of conflict, things are looking up. The Islamic government in Khartoum may be ready to initial a peace agreement with southern Sudanese rebels on or before a Dec. 31 deadline. There might even be a formal signing ceremony in Washington if all goes well during the next month. |
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US forgives $4.1b Iraq debtWashington DC - The United States yesterday forgave $4.1 billion Iraq owed it and urged other nations not part of an international debt relief agreement to follow suit. |
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Mideast peace hopes renewedJerusalem, Israel - Israel's foreign minister yesterday embraced the U.S.-backed "road map" leading to a Palestinian state in an apparent policy reversal, and conditionally warmed to recent Syrian peace overtures -- more signs of movement on Mideast peace in the post-Yasser Arafat era. Foreign Minister Silvan Shalom called for reconvening the 2003 summit that launched the so-called road map peace plan, pledging negotiations with the new Palestinian leadership and with Syria if they fight guerrilla violence against Israel. |
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Mediators Say Sudan Agrees to Stop Darfur FightingAbuja, Sudan - The Sudanese government agreed on Wednesday to halt its military offensive in Darfur, mediators said, raising hopes for the restart of suspended peace talks with rebels. |
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‘We have waited so long for justice’Santiago, Chile - The historic ruling that Gen Augusto Pinochet is fit to stand trial on murder and kidnapping charges brought victims' relatives onto the streets of Santiago to celebrate. |
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Karzai to be sworn-in as first democratically elected Afghan presidentKabul, Afghanistan - Hamid Karzai's inauguration as Afghanistan's first popularly elected President opens a new chapter in the battle to rescue this impoverished country, which became a haven for international terrorism and now risks turning into a narco-state. |
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