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Sat 09 Sep 2010Mideast leaders for further talks
Israeli and Palestinian leaders agreed to a series of direct talks on Thursday as they seek to forge the framework for a US-backed peace deal within a year and end a conflict that has boiled for six decades.
US secretary of state Hillary Clinton, who hosted the first session of talks between Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Palestinian president Mahmoud Abbas, expressed confidence that this effort could succeed where so many others have failed.
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