Hopes for peaceful resolution fade
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As US forces continue their pounding of the city of Fallujah, officials in the interim government sounded a warning to local rebels.
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The African Union chairman headed to  Kenya on Tuesday to help end turmoil that has killed almost 500  people, but hopes of a swift breakthrough seemed to falter.
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Analysis: The Bush Administration has never resolved the regime-change vs. engagement debate in its own ranks. But as multilateral diplomacy falters in each diplomatic standoff, the days of having it both ways may be ending
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Hopes of finding a solution to Northern Ireland&#39;s political deadlock stalled last night over the IRA&#39;s refusal to disarm its weapons transparently.
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Government and opposition leaders soften their stances as the violence begins to wane
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This article suggests that, the only single possible way to end the impasse in order to find hopefully, a truce and ultimately, peaceful settlement based on the UNâs framework of the well-known
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As talks collapsed and US forces launched intensive airstrikes, residents who had hoped for a settlement packed their bags. By Scott Peterson | Staff writer of The Christian Science Monitor.
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THERE had been hopes that the 10th summit would see a new sense of direction take shape within the Association of South-east Asian Nations (Asean), but the two-day event closed yesterday with an all-too-familiar note of ambiguity.
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Hope and skepticism as Israel and the Palestinians try again
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Seven years of violence have bludgeoned expectations for Mideast peacemaking, and Israelis and Palestinians are greeting President Bush's belated drive to solve their decades-old conflict with deep skepticism.
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Analysis: Past U.N. plans to pacify the country haven't worked. Why it's  unlikely the latest ceasefire resolution can do it either
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RAMALLAH, West Bank -- The agreement yesterday between Palestinians and Israelis that Yasser Arafat will be buried amid his ruined headquarters may represent the first faint ray of hope for a fresh start toward peace in the post-Arafat era, Middle East officials and observers say.
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The latest attempt by Norway to kick start the stalled peace process in Sri Lanka has ended without any sign of progress. Norwegian envoy, Erik Solheim, failed to make a breakthrough in meetings with the government and Tamil Tiger rebels.
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Move comes amid increasing impatience at failure to achieve progress in power-sharing talks with government
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The normally hushed corridors of diplomacy are about to get a jolt.
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BURNT FOREST, Kenya, Jan. 7 -- The two friends had talked politics easily before the presidential election, but in the days after, the relatively tolerant mood here in western Kenya vanished.
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A cease-fire aimed at halting months of deadly internal Palestinian violence held on its first day, but underlying tensions cast doubt on the future of the stand-down.