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Palestinian negotiator call on #Kerry to salvage peace talks with #Israel
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US Secretary of State John Kerry talks to the media following the NATO Foreign Affairs Ministers meeting held at NATO headquarters in Brussels, on December 3, 2013. (Photo: AFP - Thierry Charlier)

The top Palestinian peace negotiator urged US Secretary of State John Kerry on Wednesday to salvage American-brokered Israeli-Palestinian peace talks that both sides say are faltering. Sixteen Palestinians and four Israelis have been killed since negotiations began in July and Palestinian officials say the sides remain far apart on the central issues of borders, security, Jerusalem’s status and Palestinian refugees. read (...)

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The Libya Mission One Year Later : The rules of engagement
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The Libyan rebels operating the ship openly acknowledged they were delivering the weapons to their forces in Misrata.

Skjerpen radioed to NATO headquarters for instructions. The response was swift: let the ship sail on so the crew could deliver their deadly cargo.

A NATO senior officer, Italian Vice Admiral Rinaldo Veri had boasted just weeks earlier that the alliance’s blockade closed the door on the flow of arms into Libya.

Not quite. While the UN embargo was clearly aimed at preventing the delivery of weapons both to Gadhafi and those fighting him, NATO looked the other way when it came to the rebels. Hundreds of tonnes of ammunition and arms breezed through the blockade, exposing what critics say was Canada and NATO’s real motive during the Libyan war — regime change under the guise of protecting civilians.