Pakistan Interior Minister Chaudhry Nisar Ali Khan Sunday said there is no deadlock in the peace dialogue with the Taliban.
Israeli Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman said on Sunday that he prefers to face another round of elections rather than release Israeli Arab prisoners amid Kerry's outline.
The White House said Tuesday that President Barack Obama had not made a decision to release Jonathan Pollard, the convicted American-Israeli spy, a move deemed as part of the ongoing deliberations to salvage the faltering Israeli-Palestinian peace talks.
The Pentagon on Monday condemned an Afghan government order to release 37 of 88 detainees who the United States says are threats to national security.
Israel freed 26 Palestinian prisoners early Tuesday, as part of a U.S.-brokered agreement to resume direct peace talks between the two sides.
Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi transmitted on Monday a "message of friendship and esteem" from Chinese President Xi Jinping during a meeting with Moroccan King Mohammed VI , the Royal office said in a release in Rabat.
The United States is pressuring Israeli officials not to announce the construction of new West Bank settlements following the upcoming release of more Palestinian prisoners on Dec. 29.
The Russian Foreign Ministry on Wednesday denied reports by Western media that a diplomat has held talks with Afghanistan's Taliban movement over the release of a Russian held captive since April.
Five Palestinians, who were among the 26 Palestinian detainees Israel decided to release, arrived Tuesday at the Erez crossing point between Gaza and Israel on their way home, witnesses said.
Israel will release a second group of Palestinian prisoners on Tuesday night after the Supreme Court rejected an appeal objecting to the release.
An Israeli ministerial committee approved on Sunday a list of 26 Palestinian prisoners to be released on Tuesday amid the renewal of the peace talks between the two sides.
Pakistan said Tuesday it would soon release senior Afghan Taliban leader Mulla Andul Ghani Baradar who was arrested in Karachi in February 2010 in a joint raid by the American CIA agents and Pakistani forces.
A military helicopter, carrying Egypt's ex-president Hosni Mubarak, arrived in the Maadi Military Hospital in the capital Cairo from Tora prison on Thursday.
An Egyptian court ordered the release of ex-President Hosni Mubarak after his petition on his last corruption case was accepted, and he is set to be put under house arrest, while the authorities continued detaining supporters of his successor Mohamed Morsi, who was ousted by the military in early July.
Ultra-low budget thriller "The Purge" has overrun the North America box office with a surprisingly better-than-expected take of receipts, outperforming other rivals as it was opened to wide release over the weekend.
Egyptian President Mohamed Morsi on Sunday rejected any dialogue with the kidnappers of seven soldiers in Sinai, who appeared in an online video to urge their release.
The U.S. State Department on Thursday urged the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK) to immediately release a U.S. citizen who was sentenced to 15 years of compulsory labor by its court.
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