With hopes fading for brokering an Israeli-Palestinian peace deal by year's end, U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice offered few signs of progress Tuesday, saying talks are "serious" but settlements are counterproductive. (Aug. 26)
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It is a move that has enraged Palestinians and now it has drawn strong criticism from Washington.
As Condoleeza Rice arrives in the region for a visit, the issue of Israeli settlements is threatening to cause a rift between the two countries.
Since the Annapolis conference in November, Israel has approved the construction of 7974 new homes.
Dan Nolan reports.
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Mahmoud Abbas, the Palestinian president, said the Israeli settlement building issue remains on the top of the all negotiation meetings with the Israelis.
The talks have been restarted on final status issues after the Annapolis conference in the US last month but very little has been achieved.
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While the South Ossetian capital of Tskhinvali is attempting to return to some kind of normality, there are other locations that have also suffered from the Georgian attack. A number of South Ossetian villages were battered by severe strikes -- with some of them turning into ghost towns.
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NBC news segment aired in the US on the 21st of November, 2007 with evidence the Watchtower Society knew of paedophiles in the congregations and did nothing. Also features Barbara Anderson.
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On August 10, 1998, an eight-year-old boy was riding his bike in Sacramento. An 18-wheeler drove by and in an instant, the young boy's life, and his parents' lives, were changed forever.
To find out what happened and how a structured settlement can help a family pull itself back together after tragedy, please watch the movie.
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Mahmoud Abbas, the Palestinian president, said the Israeli settlement building issue remains on the top of the all negotiation meetings with the Israelis.
The talks have been restarted on final status issues after the Annapolis conference in the US last month but very little has been achieved.
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Elaine Shannon, Time//Chief Richard Barreto*, Miami Beach Police Department//Dr. David Kessler, Dean, Yale University School of Medicine/Former FDA Commissioner/Richard Scruggs, Attorney/Tobacco Settlement Negotiator/Hubert Humphrey III, Minnesota Attorney General//Keith Ablow, Forensic Psychiatrist, Author, "Denial" [Pantheon]
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The illegal Jewish settlement of Beitar Illit, which is built on stolen Palestinian land, regularly releases its sewage on to the farmlands of the neighbouring Palestinian village of Wadi Fuqeen. To find out more, visit the Friends of Wadi Fuqeen website at
http://www.wadifu qeenfriends.com
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Ehud Barak, the Israeli defence minister, has denied that Israel is expanding its settlements and defended his government's policy of not allowing Palestinian refugees to return home.
He speaks exclusively to Al Jazeera's Jacky Rowland.
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