WASHINGTON: New Israeli construction on land claimed by the Palestinians threatens peace efforts and undermines the United States’ ability to help end the Arab-Israeli conflict, Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton told a leading Jewish organization on Monday. Israel’s recent announcement of new housing in east Jerusalem exposed differences between the US and the Jewish [...]
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MOSCOW: The top diplomats of Russia and the United States on Thursday hailed major progress on a new accord to slash the nuclear arsenals of the Cold War-era foes and predicted a deal would be clinched soon. Russian and US negotiators have been holding talks in Geneva to agree a replacement to the 1991 Strategic [...]
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