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By By ISABEL KERSHNER, on May 23rd, 2013 On his fourth visit to the area in two months, Secretary of State John Kerry acknowledged the doubts being expressed on both sides over his chances of revitalizing the peace process.
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By , on May 23rd, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> Syria’s main opposition group gathers on Thursday for a landmark conference in Istanbul, Turkey, to discuss peace talks with the regime, as rebels on the ground suffer a massive army onslaught. The National Coalition’s fresh round of talks is set to run for three days. It is the opposition group’s first meeting since the United States and Russia announced a peace initiative dubbed Geneva 2 to end the two-year conflict that has killed more than 90,000 people. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By , on May 22nd, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> A special envoy of North Korean leader Kim Jong-un held talks with top officials in Beijing yesterday, in the first such encounter since China joined the United States and other nations in imposing sanctions on Pyongyang over its ambitious nuclear weapons programme. The visit by Vice-Marshal Choe Ryong-hae, a senior member of North Korea’s ruling Workers’ Party, comes at a politically sensitive time, just weeks before Sino-US and Sino-South Korean summits. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By , on May 22nd, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> AMMAN, Jordan (AP) — Kerry: Iranian fighters, Hezbollah helping perpetuate Assad’s ‘campaign of terror’ in Syria. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By , on May 22nd, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> AMMAN, Jordan (AP) — Kerry says Syrian opposition will get more support if Assad doesn’t come to peace talks. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By , on May 21st, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> US President Barack Obama will hold his first summit with President Xi Jinping in California next month, with Sino-US relations rattled by alleged Chinese cyber spying and tensions in the Pacific. Obama will welcome Xi to the plush Sunnylands estate resort in Palm Springs on June 7-8, as Washington seeks Chinese help to subdue North Korean belligerence and seeks a diplomatic breakthrough to end the slaughter in Syria. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By , on May 17th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> Indonesia’s foreign minister is calling for a new treaty spanning Asia to help build trust, warning of the potential for conflict in the fast-changing region. On a visit to Washington, Foreign Minister Marty Natalegawa said a treaty could help end “the all-too-familiar vicious cycle of tensions” in Asia and instead encourage confidence by bringing countries together in their goals. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By , on May 17th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> Russia has shipped advanced anti-ship cruise missiles to Syria, a move that illustrates the depth of its support for the Syrian government led by President Bashar al-Assad, US officials said. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By Ali Gharib, on May 17th, 2013 Ali Gharib on shifting the blame for a lack of Mideast peace to American Secretary of State John Kerry.
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By Orly Halpern, on May 17th, 2013 Orly Halpern rounds up the news from Israel.
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By , on May 17th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> In the wake of its apparent aversion to virgins – as expressed in its recent article “Never Sleep With a Virgin”, China’s nationalist newspaper, the Global Times, seems enthusiastic about lesbians – at least when former US secretary Hillary Clinton is suspected of being one. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By , on May 17th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> Indonesia’s foreign minister called on Thursday for a new treaty spanning across Asia to help build trust, warning of the potential for conflict in the fast-changing region if tensions fester. On a visit to Washington, Foreign Minister Marty Natalegawa said that a new treaty could help end “the all-too-familiar vicious cycle of tensions” in Asia and instead encourage confidence by bringing countries together in their goals. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By , on May 16th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> Israeli settlement watchdog Peace Now said on Thursday that the government wants to give retroactive approval to four West Bank settlement outposts it had previously pledged to at least partially demolish. In a written response to a petition Peace Now submitted to Israel’s Supreme Court against the outposts, the state attorney’s office said that settlers had now purchased the private Palestinian land on which they built, paving the way for the government to give its blessing. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By , on May 15th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> The organisation that represents North Korean residents of Japan accused the Japanese government of blocking the sale of its headquarters in Tokyo to a priest who wanted to permit the Chongryon group to remain in the building. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By , on May 15th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> The Arctic Council agreed yesterday to admit emerging powers China and India as observers, reflecting growing global interest in the trade and energy potential of the planet’s far north. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By , on May 15th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> Thousands of Palestinians took to the streets in the West Bank and Gaza on Wednesday to mark the 65th anniversary of their mass displacement during the war that followed Israel’s founding in 1948. Every May 15, Palestinians commemorate the “nakba”, or “catastrophe” – the term they use to describe their displacement. Hundreds of thousands fled or were driven out during the fighting. The dispute over the fate of those Palestinians and that of their descendants, now numbering several million people, remains at the core of the Arab-Israeli conflict. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By , on May 15th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> The Free Syrian Army pledged on Wednesday to punish atrocities amid outrage over a video showing the mutilation of a corpse, as the regime ruled out discussing President Bashar al-Assad’s departure in negotiations. The mainstream rebel group made the statement after a gruesome video of an alleged rebel fighter cutting out and apparently eating the organs of a regime soldier emerged online. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By , on May 15th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> US ambassador to Russia Michael McFaul on Wednesday met officials at the foreign ministry after being summoned to explain the presence of an alleged CIA agent working undercover at the embassy who was detained this week. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By , on May 14th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> Russia said on Tuesday it had caught an American red-handed as he tried to recruit a Russian intelligence officer to work for the CIA, a throwback to the cold war era that risks upsetting efforts to improve relations. The announcement came at an awkward time, just days after a visit by US Secretary of State John Kerry during which Washington and Moscow agreed to try to bring the warring sides in Syria together for an international peace conference. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By , on May 14th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> Chinese human rights activist Chen Guangcheng said on Tuesday that change in his country was “inevitable” but should be the work of the Chinese themselves rather than be imposed from the outside. “China will undergo a transformation, this is inevitable and in fact this has already begun,” said Chen, a blind self-taught lawyer who dramatically escaped house arrest last year. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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Syria opposition to consider peace talks
<!– google_ad_section_start –> Syria’s main opposition group gathers on Thursday for a landmark conference in Istanbul, Turkey, to discuss peace talks with the regime, as rebels on the ground suffer a massive army onslaught. The National Coalition’s fresh round of talks is set to run for three days. It is the opposition group’s first meeting since the United States and Russia announced a peace initiative dubbed Geneva 2 to end the two-year conflict that has killed more than 90,000 people. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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