Kofi Annan, who also represents the Arab League, said that monitors have helped to ease the violations, but that the peace plan is still in jeopardy.

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Syria Still Violating Cease-Fire, U.N. Envoy Says

Israel accuses UK Deputy Prime Minister Nick Clegg of “gratuitous bashing” after he said it was doing “immense damage” to the peace process through settlement building.

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Israel accuses UK Deputy Prime Minister Nick Clegg of “gratuitous bashing” after he said it was doing “immense damage” to the peace process through settlement building.

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Israel criticises Clegg comments

Fifth Avenue and Times Square were nearly silent; it was time for Scrooge and sleigh bells and the peace of long ago.

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Christmas Morning Brings Rare Serenity to N.Y.C.

Rangers reserve goalkeeper Grant Adam is charged in connection with an alleged sectarian breach of the peace and is due in court on Monday.

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Footballer faces sectarian charge

Palestinian negotiator Saeb Erekat accuses al-Jazeera TV of putting his life in danger by leaking secret papers on the peace talks with Israel.

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Erekat fears for life after leaks

Leaked documents released by Al Jazeera TV suggest Palestinian leaders made private offers on previously non-negotiable issues in the peace process.

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Palestinian peace ‘offers’ leaked

Until the populations of Israel and Palestine really want peace, the peace negotiations will be nothing but a slightly sad sideshow, unless the Obama administration, momentarily freed from its own electoral concerns, is prepared to put forward a substantive peace plan of its own. read more

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Middle East Peace Negotiations?

The awarding of the Nobel Peace Prize to Liu Xiaobo Xiaobo was “blasphemy against the peace prize,” a spokesman for the Chinese Ministry of Foreign Affairs said Friday.

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China official: Nobel award ‘blasphemy’