At least 11 people are reported to have been killed in fighting in the Yemeni city of Taiz, as a visiting UN envoy presses for a peace deal to be implemented.

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‘Eleven killed’ in Yemen shelling

At least 11 people are reported to have been killed in fighting in the Yemeni city of Taiz, as a visiting UN envoy presses for a peace deal to be implemented.

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‘Eleven killed’ in Yemen shelling

The United States is relying on Pakistan’s Inter-Services Intelligence to help broker a peace deal in Afghanistan with the same militants the agency has been accused of supporting.

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Pakistan Spy Agency’s Help Sought for Afghan Talks

JERUSALEM — The democratic uprisings that have swept through the Middle East will make it harder for Israel to reach a peace deal with Palestinians, Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu said this week.

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Arab unrest makes Israeli-Palestinian peace harder, Netanyahu says

The US says leaked documents apparently showing Israel rejected Palestinian concessions will make a peace deal “more difficult” but will not affect efforts to achieve it.

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US concern over Palestinian leaks

The Yemeni government begins freeing hundreds of northern Shia rebels as part of a peace deal, officials say.

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Jailed Shia rebels freed by Yemen

If the Palestinian Authority and Israel cannot agree on some kind of peace deal in the next few months, the entire process could be set back nearly 20 years. Should the U.S.-backed negotiations fail, Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas threatened to…

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Abbas Threatens to Dissolve Palestinian Authority

The Palestinian leadership could fall apart in the West Bank if there is not significant progress towards a peace deal, a senior Israeli intelligence official warns.

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Israel ‘risks chaos if no peace’

UK Foreign Secretary William Hague warns that “the window is closing” on a Middle East peace deal and expresses frustration over a diplomatic row with Israel.

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UK warning about Mid-East talks

The United States under President George W. Bush was prepared to take in 100,000 Palestinian refugees as part of a Middle East peace deal, former Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert said Sunday.

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Olmert: U.S. was set to take refugees

President Obama urges Mid-East leaders not to let the chance of a peace deal slip away, ahead of a new round of talks.

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Obama calls for Mid-East progress