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JERUSALEM - Defence Minister Ehud Barak said on Wednesday Israel would consider a limited moratorium on new construction in Jewish settlements, linking the step to U.S. efforts to bring Arab states into a broad peace process. The offer, which Barak made in a Fox News interview, fell short of Washington’s call for a total halt to building in settlements in the occupied West Bank, a demand that has opened the most serious rift U.S.-Israeli relations in a decade. Barak said a construction freeze was “part of a much wider issue, whether together with the United States and our Palestinian and Arab neighbours, we can launch an original peace initiative to be led by the president of the United States”. Barak held talks in New York on Tuesday with U.S. Middle East envoy George Mitchell in a bid to narrow the division with Washington... [read full story]
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Wednesday November 25, 2009, 1:47 pm The BBC has held talks with financial advisers about floating part of its commercial arm on the stock market, amid pressure over its market share and public subsidy, a report said on...
