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Telegraph, 20.03.10 17:52 UTC

Angry White House seeks to 'modify' Israeli regime

President Barack Obama's team hope to push Right-wing premier Benjamin Netanyahu into a coalition which will put peace talks on track.

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BBC World News, 20.03.10 16:25 UTC

History lessons for US policy on Israel?

With US-Israeli ties at a low ebb over plans to build new homes for settlers in disputed East Jerusalem, the BBC's Paul Adams wonders if a former secretary of state offers lessons for Hillary ...

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Belfast Telegraph, 20.03.10 10:18 UTC

UN chief shown Israeli settlement

UN chief Ban Ki-Moon has been taken to a West Bank observation point by the Palestinian prime minister for a closer look at a large Israeli settlement and Israel's separation barrier. His visit came ...

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Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, 20.03.10 04:53 UTC

Clinton reports progress in bid to resume Mideast talks

MOSCOW -- Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton on Friday hailed "useful and productive" signs from Israel, as the so-called quartet of Middle East peacemakers called on Israelis and Palestinians ...

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Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, 20.03.10 04:28 UTC

Clinton in Moscow: The secretary achieves a mixed bag in Russia

Russian Prime Minister Vladimir V. Putin greeted Secretary of State Hillary Clinton in Moscow Thursday with the same sort of disagreeable surprise that Israel gave Vice President Joe Biden during his ...

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Daily Mail, 19.03.10 23:59 UTC

Now we'll never know how much Blair really rakes in after vetting committee reveals it has no power to probe his riches

Tony Blair's earnings are to be cloaked in a permanent veil of secrecy, it emerged last night. A committee which vets the jobs of former ministers admitted it had no power to police them. The ...

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Los Angeles Times, 19.03.10 23:12 UTC

Clinton upbeat on Israel ties

She and others at a Moscow meeting of the 'quartet' push for revived Mideast talks.

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guardian.co.uk, 19.03.10 20:32 UTC

Israeli-Palestinian peace hopes rise as US envoy prepares to get talks moving

• Mitchell's trip to region back on after concession

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Newsweek International Edition, 19.03.10 20:08 UTC

Megaresorts Push Ahead With Big Plans

everyone was all smiles at the 2006 groundbreaking ceremony for Las Vegas's CityCenter, the largest privately funded development project in U.S. history. Conceived by MGM, the site was designed to be ...