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WASHINGTON, Dec 10  US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton is holding a flurry of talks to find a new way to break the deadlock in Middle East peace talks following a failed US push for an Israeli settlement freeze.The chief US diplomat was scheduled to meet in Washington on Friday with chief Palestinian negotiator Saeb Erakat, Palestinian prime minister Salam Fayyad and Israeli Defense Minister Ehud Barak, US officials said.These talks follow those she had with Israel\   chief peace negotiator Yitzhak Molcho from whom she sought  a perspective on the Israeli side of how to move forward,  her spokesman Philip Crowley said, without elaborating.Crowley said Clinton had spoken twice over the telephone on Wednesday with Palestinia asics n president Mahmud Abbas to encourage him to send Erakat to Washington.The burst of talks will be capped by an evening speech Clinton will give  stanley usa to the Saban Center for Middle E adidas samba adidas ast Policy, outlining new ideas to rescue the Obama administration\   struggling diplomatic efforts in the region.Peace talks were thrown into disarray on Tuesday when the United States conceded it had failed in its weeks-long efforts to persuade Israel to renew a freeze on Jewish settlement building in the West Bank.President Barack Obama had presided over the relaunch of direct talks in Washington in September, only to see them stall within weeks when a settlement moratorium expired and the Palestinians refused  Jemk Federal High Court dismisses suit seeking Saraki   s dismissal, Speaker, 52 others from office
The Director-General of the Labour Party Campaign Council, Doyin Okupe has resigned his position.The development was contained in a letter he addressed to the LP presidential candidate, Peter Obi on Tuesday.Sharing the letter on his official Twitter handle, Okupe wrote,  Its time to step aside. But I am with PO and the Obidients and the Presidential Campaigns till God gives us victory in Jesus Name .Okupes resignation followed his conviction for breaching the Money Laundering Act by a Federal High Court sitting in Abuja on Monday.The Labour Party chieftain, who was formerly a member of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, was subsequently sentenced to two and a half years in prison.Justice Ojukwu held that there is no evidence that the money received by Mr Okupe passed through  stanley us any financial institution.She also noted that the NSA was not a financial institution, and even if the president was said to have authorized the funds, he did not say that the money must be paid in cash, in violation of the money laundering act.The court found聽 the first defendant, Doyin O owala canada kupe guilty in count 34, 35, 36 to聽聽 59.The defendant was found not guilty in counts 1 to 33 on the grounds that the prosecution failed to establish the charge of money Laundering and criminal breach of trust and corruptio air force 1 n against the NSA.In counts 34 to 59 upon which Mr Okupe was convicted, he was accused of receiving various sums ranging from N10 million on different occasions from 2012 to 2015 when he w