UN chief pushes Palestinians to calm spiralling unrest

[WorldNews]

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UN chief Ban Ki-moon called Wednesday for an end to spiralling Israeli-Palestinian violence as he met Palestinian president Mahmud Abbas in a bid for calm after three weeks of deadly unrest. The UN secretary-general traveled to the region this week to urge the Israelis and Palestinians to pull back from a "dangerous escalation" that could lead to a full-scale Palestinian uprising. Ban offered no public proposals to end the unrest, but spoke of returning to "meaningful negotiations," after more than a year of frozen peace efforts and seething frustration with Israel's occupation.

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