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/ 27 January 2009
US President Barack Obama told Arab television he would not wait until the end of his administration to deal with Palestinian and Israeli peace.
Iraqi militants holding a German woman and her adult son hostage said on Tuesday they were giving Germany a new deadline of 10 days to withdraw its troops from Afghanistan or the two would be killed. The group had issued an earlier ultimatum on March 10 that it would kill the pair if Berlin failed to pull out its troops from Afghanistan.