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Talks between the G20 group of major economies are entering their second day, with key leaders locked in fractious talks.
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Mrs Clinton held a video conference on Wednesday with Palestinian Prime Minister Salam Fayyad US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton has vowed to find “a way forward” in the stalled Mid-East peace talks.
Her remarks came ahead of a meeting with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in New York.
The two are meeting amid a row over Israeli plans to build new homes for Jewish settlers in East Jerusalem.
Meanwhile, at a rally in Ramallah in the West Bank, Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas asked Israelis to choose peace over settlements.
“I now turn to the Israeli people. I hope they will hear us – those who believe in peace, if they exist,” Mr Abbas said, at the event to mark the anniversary of the death of Yasser Arafat.
‘Talking about everything’
Speaking alongside Mr Netanyahu before their meeting began in New York, Ms Clinton said: “The prime minister and president Abbas are both very committed to a two-state solution and we are going to find a way forward.
“We’re going to be talking about everything and I’ll be saving my comments beyond what I’ve already said for my talks with the prime minister.”
Negotiations, launched with what correspondents described as great pomp by President Barack Obama in early September, ran aground after just two rounds of talks.
An Israeli moratorium on building new settlements expired at the end of September. Earlier this month, Israel announced plans to build 1,300 new homes for Jewish settlers on disputed land in East Jerusalem.
The US has said the settlements are unhelpful and has urged the two sides to restart negotiations.
The Palestinians have said they will not return to the negotiating table until new settlement construction halts.
Meanwhile, on Wednesday, the US announced the payment of a $150m (£93m) aid package to the Palestinians.
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The NHS faces a period of job cuts, clogged hospital wards and rising waiting times, nurse leaders warn.
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The health watchdog NICE confirms there will be no NHS funding in England and Wales for the anti-cancer drug Avastin.
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Helen Oyeyemi is the youngest writer to be nominated in the award’s history The hopeuls who are in the running for this year’s BBC National Short Story Award have been unveiled.
Helen Oyeyemi is the youngest novelist yet to have been nominated for the prize.
The 26-year-old’s book My Daughter The Racist will compete against works by David Constantine, Aminatta Forna, Sarah Hall and Jon McGregor.
The winner of the £15,000 prize money will be announced on Radio 4’s Front Row on 29 November.
The runner-up will £3,000 and the rest of the writers will be rewarded with £500 each.
Critically-acclaimed writer McGregor is in contention with his story If it Keeps on Raining, which is pitted against Butcher’s Perfume by Hall.
In 2003 she scooped the Commonwealth Writers Prize for Best First Novel and the John Llewellyn Rhys Prize in 2007.
Forna, author of Haywards Heath, is also no stranger to awards.
Her debut book, The Devil that Danced on the Water, was shortlisted for the Samuel Johnson Prize in 2003.
Best known as a a poet and translator, Constantine was shortlisted for this year’s Frank O’Connor Prize with The Shieling.
His latest publication, Tea at the Midland, has been recognised for the BBC national award.
Five actors and actresses – including Holby City’s Hugh Quarshie – will each read one of the shortlisted stories on a daily basis from 15 November at 1530 GMT on Radio 4.
The prize, launched in 2005, was created to honour the country’s finest authors in the form.
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Emergency services including the Ministry of Defence are at Notte Street Part of Plymouth has been evacuated following the discovery of an unexploded bomb.
Workmen discovered the partially buried device at a building site on Notte Street, at about 1540 GMT.
Neighbouring buildings have been evacuated and a 300m cordon has been put in place while the Ministry of Defence (MoD) assesses the situation.
The MoD said the device was 18ins (45cm) long and thought to be a bomb from World War II.
The city centre is quieter now the rush hour is over but people are on their way home and not being able to get where they want to go.
A number of streets around the Barbican have been cordoned off and there’s a hefty police presence stopping people from crossing it.
Nobody knows how long this is going to go on for.
The Holiday Inn hotel has been evacuated and there are estimated to be about 300 people in the Plymouth Pavilions sports centre who have been unable to return home.
The area near where the bomb was found is on the edge of the city centre and there are some apartment blocks nearby.
Robert Maltby, from the Pavilions, said: “We’ve got the use of our 4,000 capacity arena, meeting rooms, and our catering staff are staying behind to open up our catering facilities.
“We’re basically going to be on standby until the authorities say we’re no longer needed.”
Police said that they were considering closing off Royal Parade to enable more police and military vehicles to access the area.
A police command centre has been set up in the Guildhall car park.
The MoD said that it planned to immobilise the device and make it safe before moving it elsewhere to be detonated.
Members of the public are advised to avoid the area.
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Mr Woolas is set to challenge the court ruling over his conduct during the election Labour “had to act” in response to a court verdict banning Phil Woolas from politics for three years, shadow cabinet minister Caroline Flint says.
Ms Flint told BBC Question Time Mr Woolas was a friend and that she was “concerned” for him, but she defended the party’s decision to suspend him.
Mr Woolas is seeking a judicial review of last week’s election court verdict.
It ruled Mr Woolas had made false statements in his winning campaign for the Oldham East and Saddleworth seat.
The ex-immigration minister was barred from standing for elected office for three years after the specially convened court ruled he was guilty of breaching the Representation of the People Act 1983.
He won the seat by 103 votes.
Ms Flint, the shadow communities secretary, said she had known Mr Woolas for more than 20 years and believed he had been a great MP and minister.
But she added: “What the special court found was that, with regard to the literature that was put out, statements were made about the Lib Dem candidate that were not only wrong but the Oldham campaign knew them to be wrong.
“That was the judgement and therefore Harriet Harman, representing the Labour Party, confirmed that and that is why Phil Woolas was administratively suspended.”
Ms Harman has come under fire from Labour MPs for appearing to cast Mr Woolas adrift when she indicated he had no future in the party even if he succeeded in overturning the verdict.
At a meeting of the Parliamentary Labour Party (PLP) on Monday, Ms Harman was accused of pre-empting the outcome of any appeal by the former MP.
One MP present at the meeting was said to have described her comments on Mr Woolas’ future as a “disgrace” while it was reported that Ms Harman had been told to consider her position by another.
Ms Flint denied anyone had said that although she said she would not comment further on the details of the meeting.
She said Mr Woolas was a popular figure in the party.
“Phil Woolas is a friend to many people in the PLP and they are concerned for him and his family at this time and I share that concern as well to be honest.”
But she added: “The party has to act on the issue of the court. And the process is not over yet.”
Mr Woolas is raising cash for the next stage of his legal challenge to the election ruling and has reportedly received the backing of a number of prominent Labour figures.
Ms Flint said she expected a hearing in the case to take place on Tuesday.
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Nouri Maliki gradually gained the support of parliament’s smaller factions The Iraqi parliament is due to meet after a reported breakthrough in negotiations to form a new government.
Negotiations have been in deadlock since elections in March.
MPs said a deal was reached to keep Nouri Maliki as prime minister after he gained the support of the Sunni coalition led by former PM Iyad Allawi.
The agreement is said to provide checks and balances against the abuse of power by any one group. The US said the reported deal was a “big step forward”.
One by one, smaller factions gradually fell into line, with Mr Maliki’s opponents saying that Iran was playing a major persuasive role behind the scenes.
But the question remained, how to bring on board the alliance headed by Mr Allawi, which won the bulk of the Sunni vote.
Everybody agrees they should be involved because marginalisation of the Sunnis was seen as a major factor driving the insurgency.
Now the deal appears to be that while Mr Maliki keeps the job as prime minister, Mr Allawi’s bloc will be given the speakership of parliament, the foreign ministry and the presidency of a new national council for strategic policy – it’s designed in theory at least as a check on the unbridled wielding of power by the prime minister.
The presidency of the republic is also expected to be retained by the current incumbent, the Kurdish leader Jalal Talabani.
Once parliament convenes, it is expected to begin by electing its own speaker and his deputies.
The chamber will then elect the president of the republic who will in turn invite the biggest parliamentary coalition, Mr Maliki’s, to nominate its candidate to try to form a government.
He would then have a month to try to put an administration together.
The tide turned for Mr Maliki in early October when the militant young Shia cleric Moqtada Sadr announced that the 40 or so seats he controls in the new parliament would back the incumbent for a second term.
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The National Union of Journalists has 4,100 members at the BBC The National Union of Journalists has offered to suspend next week’s strikes at the BBC to allow talks over proposed changes to its pension scheme.
But a NUJ spokesman said the suspension was conditional on BBC bosses reversing disciplinary action taken against three employees in the US who supported last week’s two-day strike.
The action forced some news programmes on BBC radio and TV to go off air.
The BBC has yet to comment on the NUJ’s proposals.
The NUJ, which has 4,100 members at the BBC, voted to reject the BBC’s “final” offer on pensions at the end of October.
The broadcasting union Bectu voted to accept the deal.
Radio 4’s Today programme was cancelled as a result of the action on 5 and 6 November, but the BBC’s main news bulletins went ahead as planned.
A further 48-hour strike is planned for 15 and 16 November.
In an email sent to staff earlier this week, the corporation’s director general Mark Thompson said the BBC “cannot and will not enter fresh negotiations”.
Nor, he continued, could the corporation “contemplate fresh changes to the agreed offer on pension reform, no matter how much industrial action there is from the NUJ.”
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Andy Murray moves into the Paris Masters quarter-finals with a hard-fought victory over Marin Cilic.
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A disabled cruise ship that caught fire off the coast of Mexico arrives in San Diego and begins evacuating some 4,500 passengers and crew.
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In Moscow hundreds of journalists have been demonstrating against the rising number of attacks on reporters.
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Investment bankers and traders in the UK are to have calls made on company mobile phones taped in a bid to crack down on insider trading.
City watchdog, the Financial Services Authority ruled calls would be stored for six months, but personal mobile phones are not included in the move.
Office land lines, e-mails and communications through messaging systems are already recorded.
Firms had objected to the cost of the plans.
The FSA estimates extending the taping rule will cover about 16,000 mobile phones, and cost about £11m to set up and about £18m annually.
“Removing the exemption will provide an extra source of voice and electronic communication evidence, which can be used to help us counter the key priority of market abuse and increase the probability of successful enforcement,” the FSA said.
“The new rules will also contribute to our wider effort to promote cleaner markets which should, in turn, enhance market confidence.”
And banks have been told they must take “reasonable steps” to ensure traders do not use their private phones to carry out transactions.
The European Union is also considering bringing in similar rules for financial firm employees in the bloc.
Insider trading is when information not in the public domain is shared, and then used to make investment decisions – for example trading shares.
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A fallen tree has blocked the Hannahstown Hill road in Belfast Winds of up to 70mph are expected in Northern Ireland on Thursday, the Met Office has warned.
It said southwest and then westerly winds would increase to severe gale force over some areas from late afternoon onwards.
BBC NI weather presenter Cecilia Daly said winds had already gusted to 63mph in Castlederg in County Tyrone.
She said “severe gales” were “most likely to be in the west, along the north coast and the east Antrim coast”.
The Met Office said there would be rain on Thursday evening, which “would be heavy in places, clearing to passing blustery showers” on Thursday night.
It said “gale force westerly winds would reach severe gale force in places, especially across the west, north coast and Irish sea coast, moderating a little before dawn”.
The Met Office has advised the public to take extra care and refer to TrafficWatchNI for further details on road conditions.
Stena Line said that due to “anticipated adverse conditions on the Irish Sea, it was likely sailings would be suspended later on Thursday afternoon until the early hours of tomorrow”.
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The talking bra, dogs that like surfing and the Obamas do a bit of dancing. It’s the week’s weird and wonderful video stories in Newsbeat’s Odd Box with Dominic Byrne.
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