The Palestinians told United States Vice President Joe Biden on Wednesday that Israel's new plan to build 1,600 homes for Jewish settlers challenged Washington's efforts to get indirect peace talks underway.
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Denying or playing down the Holocaust in Hungary is to be a criminal offense punishable by up to three years imprisonment after President Laszlo Solyom signed new legislation into law on Wednesday.
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Top Egyptian cleric Sheik Mohammed Sayed Tantawi, whose moderate views angered conservative Muslims, died of a heart attack Wednesday during a visit to Saudi Arabia, the state-owned news agency reported. He was 81.
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