Somali rivals optimistic on talks
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Senior officials from Somalia's key rival powers predict progress in talks due to start on Saturday.
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The newly inaugurated Somali parliament is due to elect the speaker of the transitional assembly later on Wednesday. Twelve members of parliament have expressed interest in the position.
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Somalia&#39;s clan leaders gathered Sunday to choose their first president in more than a decade in an election that the international community hopes will
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MOGADISHU, Somalia, Aug. 30  â Somali reconciliation talks, seen as the best hope for peace in the war-wracked nation, ended on Thursday with the interim president urging insurgents and militias to swap the bullet for the ballot box.
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Negotiators for Somalia's weak, U.N.-backed interim government held peace talks Sunday with delegates from an increasingly powerful Islamic militia that controls most of the country's south, including the capital.
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Battered Somalia is trying to reconcile its warring factions. But mortar attacks, boycotts and an expiring peacekeepersâ mandate leave little room for optimism.
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The seaport in the Somali capital reopened Wednesday for the first time in 11 years, the latest sign that the city's Islamic fundamentalist rulers are trying to restore confidence after more than a decade of anarchy.
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Morocco and Western Sahara&#39;s  independence movement kept negotiations alive on the future of  the resource-rich territory, agreeing on Tuesday to meet again  in August after two days of groundbreaking talks.
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Palestinian mediators are hopeful a deal will be reached soon to end a month of fighting between Lebanese troops and al Qaeda-inspired militants entrenched in a refugee camp, political sources said on Tuesday.
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Rival sides in post-election dispute resume talks aimed at ending violent unrest that has claimed the lives of at least 1,000 people
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Spokesmen from both Fatah and Hamas expressed hopes that the new government would be formed in the coming week.
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The leaders of the two sides will rejoin negotiations on Thursday, but their top aides expressed only limited optimism.
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Israeli and Palestinian negotiators hold what are described as positive talks on the most intractable issues.
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Sudanese opposition groups and a government delegation on Friday held the first full day of peace talks in Cairo with both sides optimistic about a deal, sources close to the negotiations told Egypt&#39;s MENA news agency.
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Members of a new Somali parliament, which is sitting in Nairobi, vote on Sunday to elect a president. It is the culmination of two years of talks in the Kenyan capital, aimed at ending more than a decade of lawlessness in Somalia.
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Aided by an Ethiopian mediator, the leaders of Somalia's weak, U.N.-backed government have resolved their differences over how to deal with an increasingly strong Islamic militia that controls much of the south, officials said Sunday.
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SEOUL: Rejecting US charges of genocide in Darfur, Sudanese Foreign Minister Mustafa Osman Ismail said yesterday he was optimistic about striking a peace deal within three months to end the violence in the troubled western province.