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Obama's mideast tour
Jun 6 2009, Tamer

Barack Obama yesterday told both sides in the Palestinian-Israeli conflict that while the US will do all it can to help bring about peace – he ordered his peace envoy, the former Senator George Mitchell, back to the region next week – the...

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