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The Taliban say they are holding another meeting on Monday with U.S. officials, this time in the United Arab Emirates and also involving Saudi, Pakistani and Emirati representatives in the latest attempt to bring a negotiated end to Afghanistan s 17-year war.Khalil Minawi, director of Afghanistan s state-run Bakhtar news agency said on Twitter that officials from the United States, Afghanistan, Pakistan and the UAE held meetings on Sunday ahead of the Pakistani-sponsored U.S.-Taliban meeting. It will be the third round of direct U.S.-Taliban talks aimed at creating a roadmap for peace in Afghanistan to end the war that began in 2001 with the U.S.-led invasion to topple the Taliban regime.While the Afghan government recently announced a new 12-member negotiating team to engage in peace talks with the Taliban and appointed a former interior minister as special peace envoy, no one from the Afghan government side was to attend the talks starting on Monday, reports CBS News Ahmad Mukhtar in Kabul.The series
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Sounding defiant at a critical moment for Northern Ireland s peace process, the Irish Republican Army warned Saturday that it would not start to disarm in response to Protestant or British government demands.The statement was issued as Catholic and Protestant government leaders met outside Belfast, CBS News Correspondent Richard Roth reports. Britain says it will re-impose London s direct rule on Northern Ireland unless the paramilitary group commits within a week to giving up weapons.As part of the province s 1998 Good Friday peace accord, Britain transferred some governmental control to a local power-sharing administration eight weeks ago. The major Protestant party, the Ulst
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BAMAKO, Mali - The assault on a luxury hotel in Mali s capital that killed 19 people was a clear attempt to derail a fragile peace process meant to stabilize the country s volatile north, a representative of northern separatist gr
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Faced with the growing tide of imported Christmas trees, Mexico has set a goal of growing its own.It s not so much a nationalistic stance as a tacit acknowledgment that the Christmas tree, once alien to Mexican tradition, is here to stay.For centuries, the centerpiece of the Mexican Christmas was the Nativity scene. Trees didn t come until the 1940s, along with Santa Claus and reindeer, and have since become hugely popular.Criticized as a cultural invasion, the trees wer
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Israel and Bhutan announced Saturday the establishment of full diplomatic relations between the two countries. The agreement will open the path to greater cooperation and further strengthen relations between Israel and the South Asian kingdom, according to a joint statement. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu welcomed the deal, writing on Twitter that it is an additional fruit of the peace agreements. He added that Israel was in contact with more countries to normalize relations. Isra
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LONDON The U.S. and British defense chiefs said Saturday the hostage cri
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