Palestinian and Israeli negotiators will meet in Jordan on Tuesday in an effort to revive moribund peace talks, although none of the sides involved suggested any reason to view the meeting as a sign of significant progress.

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Palestinians and Israelis Will Talk This Week

VILNIUS, Lithuania — Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton will meet Tuesday with a group of Syrian opposition leaders — only the second time she has done so since the beginning of the Arab Spring. Clinton will hold the meeting in Geneva, where she will also deliver a human rights speech at the U.N. Human Rights Council . Read full article > >

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Clinton to meet with Syrian opposition leaders

There was no outward hint of progress — other than the length of the meeting and the agreement to continue the talks.

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BRUSSELS — NATO defense ministers are exploring ways Wednesday of ending the alliance’s aerial campaign in Libya and training Afghan security forces for a larger role in their country’s war. In a speech before the meeting, U.S. Defense Secretary Leon Panetta urged NATO member states to cooperate more closely and pool their resources in order to make up for the shortfalls that have plagued the alliance’s operations in Libya and Afghanistan. Read full article > >

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BERLIN – European and some Asian markets dropped sharply lower Monday, as hopes that Greece would not be allowed to default on its debts gave way to at least two more weeks of uncertainty. European economic officials met this weekend to discuss what to do about Greece’s dwindling bank accounts, which–without a new intervention–will be empty sometime next month. But the only decision they could agree upon was to wait until another meeting in early October to ratify concrete plans. Read full article > >

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MOSCOW — North Korea is ready to resume international talks over its nuclear weapons program without “preconditions,” according to a Russian official describing the meeting Wednesday between North Korean leader Kim Jong Il and Russian President Dmitry Medvedev. Kim also told Medvedev that North Korea is willing to consider a moratorium on nuclear testing and production, said Natalya Timakova, a spokeswoman for the Russian president, who met with Russian news agency reporters after the meeting adjourned. Read full article > >

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North Korea may return to nuclear talks, Russia says

Thirty-four of Prince George’s County’s most dangerous criminals sat side-by-side in black upholstered chairs at a Suitland health center one recent evening, staring suspiciously at the police commanders, prosecutors and community activists in front of them. The murderers, robbers and carjackers had been forced to come to the meeting by their parole and probation agents. All are considered likely to strike again. Officers will be watching closely this summer, police told the group. Those in the room who don’t stay out of trouble will go to prison. Read full article > >

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A day after President Obama delivered a major speech on Mideast policy-raising the ire of right-wing Israeli prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, Netanyahu visited the White House to try to smooth things over. But the meeting seemed not to have done much…

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PHILADELPHIA — At 3:40 Thursday afternoon, Manager Jim Riggleman and hitting coach Rick Eckstein called every hitter in the Washington Nationals ’ clubhouse into Riggleman’s office. They closed the door. Riggleman and Eckstein spoke first. A few players followed. “All positive,” one player said later. “Usually,” Riggleman said, “you like to have those meetings when you’re facing an emergency starter or something.” Riggleman had called his meeting hours before his team faced Roy Halladay, “the best pitcher “I’ve ever faced,” said Jerry Hairston, who has faced 826 of them. Read full article > >

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After Berkshire Hathaway Chief Executive Warren Buffett was embroiled in an insider-trading scandal concerning former executive David Sokol, the financing guru opened up the company’s annual meeting for tens of thousands of people. During the meeting…

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NATO Secretary General Anders Fogh Rasmussen told a foreign ministers’ summit Thursday that the alliance needs “a few more” aircraft for its mission in Libya. However, no one at the meeting offered to provide any additional warplanes. Britain and…

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BERLIN — At a two-day summit of NATO nations that opened here Thursday, U.S. officials played down emerging rifts among allies and said they planned to use the meeting to work toward bridging those differences.

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Has anyone ever done this better than Melinda Henneberger does it? True to form, I was too busy to go to the meeting and missed my own firing yesterday; don’t you hate it when that happens? (All my life, my mom has been saying I’d be late to my own funeral, so could we please not tell her she was right?) There were a few other mix-ups, too, with the result that some AOL employees were invited to the Meeting of Death by accident, while others who were supposed to have been on the layoff list were walking around like Bruce Willis in the Sixth Sense. Also in error, I mistakenly received some last-minute communications re: the best time to tell an AOL News editor who had cancer surgery yesterday that he needn’t hurry back. My termination became even more anti-climactic after my plane almost crashed at Reagan last night; we got caught in a wind shear and just as we were about to slam into the tarmac, the pilot pulled up violently and we went from horizontal to vertical in a second; I haven’t been that scared since, in a mad rush to get home to my family one Friday night in 2000, I jumped into a four-seater with a pilot shouting, “Come on, I think we can beat it” as a storm moved toward Cape Cod. The storm won that one, though when they finally reopened Logan an hour later, the pilot did commend me for having remained so silent as we were being thrown around; even in extremis, one rarely screams the Hail Mary.

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A Defense Ministry official said the talks ended when the North Korean delegation “unilaterally walked away from the table and out of the meeting room.”

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Korea Talks Ended Abruptly Without Agreement

A second Bank of England policymaker voted for an interest rate rise earlier this month, minutes from the meeting show.

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Two MPC members seek rate rise