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“Encouraging” US-Taliban Talks

27/01/2019 GMT

'Encouraging' US-Taliban Talks

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Talks between US and Afghan Taliban see “significant progress”

Talks between US and Afghan Taliban see “significant progress”.

US diplomat Zalmay Khalilzad has been leading talks with the Taliban in Qatar, but there remain a number of crucial issues that could block a peace deal.

Also in the programme: Was Canada’s ambassador to China too cosy with Beijing? And Venezuela’s oil ties with the United States.

(Photo: An Afghan security officer secure the area of a collapsed building of National Directorate of Security in central Maidan Wardak province, Afghanistan on 21 January, 2019. Credit: Sabawoon/Anadolu Agency/Getty Images)

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