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Peace progress between
Israel and the President
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The peace agreement
signed in Nepal
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The paramilitary organization
in the Basque region of Spain declared a cease fire in March and began peace
talks with Spain in December after 40 years of conflict.
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A rival faction in Chad which had led an unsuccessful coup attempt, signed a
peace agreement with the President of Chad on Christmas Eve.
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Pakistan and India began to consider surrendering claims to Kashmir and
jointly supporting an independent Kashmiri state.
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China and Japan announced they had assembled a joint team of historians to
re-evaluate 2,000 years of history to find new common ground.
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In Northern Ireland , the Irish Sinn Fein and the Loyalist Democratic Unionist
Party, continued to make progress towards sharing a unified government.
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In South America , leaders from nations across the continent met to discuss
the creation of a pan South American union similar to the European Union.
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The government of Sudan agreed to a joint peace keeping force from the UN and
the African Union to help quell tensions it war-torn Darfur .
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The United Nations peacekeeping force in Lebanon brokered a cease fire between
Lebanese and Israeli soldiers.
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Leaders from Iran and Iraq released a joint statement pledging to strengthen
bi-lateral relations.
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Aceh in Indonesia held its first democratic elections, in which former rebels
sought change through the democratic process rather than through military
actions.
