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India and Pakistan Meet in Historic Cricket Showdown Amid Search for Peace
By Betwa Sharma - AOL NewsThe first semifinal cricket showdown in World Cup history between India and Pakistan has struck millions from both cricket-crazed countries like a bolt of electricity, sparking strong currents of rivalry and goodwill. Wednesday's game, which will take place in the Indian city of Mohali near the border with Pakistan, coincides with the start of peace talks in New Delhi. In attendance will be Pakistani Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani and his Indian counterpart, Manmohan Singh. Chirayu Chandani, a 25-year-old corporate lawyer in Mumbai, will watch the games with 15 of his friends on a big ...
Report: NATO Escorts Taliban Elites to Peace Talks
By Lauren Frayer - AOL News
(Oct. 20) -- U.S. forces are helping top Taliban fugitives secretly slip from their hideouts in Pakistan and escorting them through neighboring Afghanistan to high-level, face-to-face peace talks with President Hamid Karzai's inner circle. That's according to The New York Times, which quotes unnamed Afghan officials with knowledge of the talks as describing how, in at least one case, Taliban leaders crossed the border and boarded a NATO aircraft bound for Kabul. Gemunu Amarasinghe, AP Afghan President Hamid Karzai, center, prayed recently with members of Afghanistan's peace council, which is ...
US and NATO Actively Backing Taliban Peace Talks
By Theunis Bates - AOL News
(Oct 14) -- Earlier this spring, U.S. Defense Secretary Robert Gates described Afghan President Hamid Karzai's attempt to open negotiations with the Taliban as premature. As long as the insurgents thought they could win the war, he said, they wouldn't come to the table. But in a remarkable turnaround, NATO officials have now revealed that U.S.-led forces in Afghanistan are allowing top Taliban leaders to travel to Kabul and take part in "preliminary" talks with the Karzai government. "We have indeed facilitated, to various degrees, the contacts between these senior Taliban members to the ...
Newspaper Photoshops Egyptian President in Front of Barack Obama
By Paul Wachter - AOL News(Sept. 16) -- As Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak ages, there's been increasing conversation and speculation about who might succeed him. But don't push Mubarak out of the picture, yet. Literally! Gawker caught Egypt's state-owned paper, Al-Ahram, in a Photoshopping doozy. As world leathers gather for Middle East peace talks, a Getty photo emerged of the notables walking together. In the original photo, Mubarak is trailing President Barack Obama and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. But in the photo that appears in Al-Ahram, Mubarak has been placed in front of the procession. While ...
An Optimistic Hillary Clinton in Egypt for Mideast Peace Talks
By Sarah Wildman - Politics DailyJews the world over are currently in the midst of the Days of Awe, the Yamim Noraim – a time of reflection between Rosh Hashanah – the new year – and Yom Kippur – the Day of Atonement. For Muslims, Ramadan drew to a close last week, and the Eid al-Fitr festival, the celebration ending the month-long period of prayer and contemplation, was celebrated over the weekend. The Americans who hope to broker peace between these two famously warring peoples are hoping that all of those prayers and all of that introspection will oil the potentially stuck gears on the ...
Obama Delivers Rosh Hashanah Message as Peace Talks Continue [VIDEO]
By David Knowles - AOL News(Sept. 7) -- Offering his "warmest wishes for the new year" to Jews in America and around the world, President Barack Obama released a video message Tuesday marking the start of Rosh Hashanah. Celebrating the Hebrew year 5771, Rosh Hashanah officially begins at sundown on Wednesday. This year's observances come as the United States has helped usher in a new round of Middle East peace talks between Israeli and Palestinian leaders. "At a time when Israelis and Palestinians have returned to direct dialog, it is up to us to encourage and support those who are willing to move beyond their ...
Clinton to Attend Mideast Peace Talks in Egypt
By Politics Daily Staff - Politics DailySecretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton will go to Egypt for the second round of the Obama administration's Israeli-Palestinian peace talks Sept. 14-15, The Hill newspaper reports. "Egypt will host the second round of . . . negotiations in Sharm el-Sheikh," Egypt's Foreign Ministry spokesman Hossam Zaki said in a statement carried by the state news agency MENA. Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, who began talks in Washington last week, will meet again in Egypt. A State Department official told Agence France-Presse that special envoy ...
Leaders at Peace Talks Get Down to Hard Work
By Joseph Schuman - AOL News(Sept. 2) -- The leaders of Israel and the Palestinians today sat down with one another to open what is likely to be a lengthy and contentious series of negotiations aimed at producing a long-elusive two-state solution for the Mideast. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton welcomed Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas to the first direct talks between the two sides since 2008. At the State Department, she set out the same idealistic goals the two leaders and President Barack Obama espoused the night before, but with a more sober read on how ...
Israeli-Palestinian Peace Talks Begin as Both Sides Lay Out Hopes, Expectations
By Sarah Wildman - Politics Daily"Joined by the generations, those who have gone before, and those who will follow," President Obama and Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton opened formal peace talks between the Israelis and Palestinians today. The imagery has certainly been impressive. Yesterday it was President Obama, flanked by Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas on one side, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on the other striding purposefully, if not altogether confidently, into a working dinner. This morning, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton took the lead, seated between the pair. An American flag with ...
Peace Now? Abbas and Netanyahu Arrive in Washington for Talks
By Sarah Wildman - Politics DailySecretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton had a packed schedule Tuesday as she lay the groundwork for peace talks between the Israelis and Palestinians, set to begin at a White House dinner Wednesday night. First she met with Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas, then with Jordanian Foreign Minister Nasser Judeh, followed by Egyptian foreign minister Ahmed Aboul Gheit. Later she saw former British Prime Minister Tony Blair, and finally, as everyone was anxious to wrap up for dinner, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. But not half-way through her schedule, news came in that four ...
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