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| US presses N Korea on nuclear deal |
The US has attempted to press North Korea into giving a preliminary commitment to complete a nuclear disarmament deal in its highest-level contact with Pyongyang in four years,Condoleezza Rice, the US secretary of state, met her North Korean counterpart, Pak Ui-chun, on the sidelines of an Asian security forum in Singapore on Wednesday,"It was a good meeting, no surprises, The atmosphere was very good,It was not a stand-off with everybody stating their positions,It was interactive," Rice told reporters after the six-party talks,"Everyone essentially confirmed [previous agreements] and the need to move rapidly to finish phase two obligations," she said.
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| Obama tours Israel and West Bank |
Barack Obama, the US Democratic presidential candidate, has met Palestinian leaders at the government's headquarters in Ramallah, in the final part of his Middle East tour,Obama travelled from Jerusalem to the West Bank city on Wednesday for talks with Mahmoud Abbas, the Palestinian president, and Salam Fayyad, the prime minister,Saeb Erekat, a senior Palestinian peace negotiator, said Abbas planned to tell Obama that, if elected president, he must not waste time and must immediately turn his attention to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict,Obama said on Tuesday in Jordan after a meeting with King Abdullah that he would work to bring Israel and the Palestinians together "starting from the minute I'm sworn into office".
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| King launches, inquires about $ 3mln social projects north-east |
Izemmouren (north-east), King Mohammed VI of Morocco, on Tuesday, launched and inquired about several social projects, worth about $ 3.02 mln in the north-eastern rural commune of Izemmouren (near Al Hoceima),These projects, part of Morocco's anti-poverty program the National Initiative for Human development (INDH), touch on several fields such as health, drinking water and rural electrification,The Monarch inquired about the construction and equipment of two social centers in the villages of Tafensa and Tamoujoute, at a global cost of $ 251,381.
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| Yahoo and Google create ad alliance |
Yahoo and Google have entered into an alliance that will let Google handle some of Yahoo's advertising sales,At the same time, Yahoo's efforts to revive takeover talks with Microsoft have failed,Google and Yahoo, No 1 and No 2 in online search, will pit advertisements against each other in auctions for the one that pays the most,Yahoo estimates that the arrangement could boost its revenue by as much as $800 million during the first 12 months of the partnership,Still, the news, disclosed on Thursday, caused Yahoo shares to fall 10 per cent as investors abandoned hope that Microsoft would renew its quest to buy Yahoo,The Google partnership will have to pass what is likely to be a rigorous review by US anti-trust regulators and legislators,The process is non-exclusive, meaning others could join in the bidding to place adverts, a factor that could make it easier for the deal to win regulatory approval.
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| Maliki’s Problems |
US Defense Secretary Robert Gates has announced he favors “a pause” in the withdrawal of US troops from Iraq, In part, this is not good news, The sooner foreign troops get out of Iraq, the better, On the other hand, Washington remains understandably unconvinced that the Iraqi government is sufficiently organized and effective to take over and decide what ought to be its duties in the maintenance of law and order,Thanks in large measure to the decision by Sunni tribal leaders to root out the Al-Qaeda groups that had been hiding in their midst, those groups have been forced in large measure out of their original strongholds in and around Baghdad.
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