Israel, Palestinians meet under settlement cloud

Jerusalem (AFP) Aug 14, 2013 Israeli and Palestinian negotiators met for around five hours on Wednesday in a new round of direct peace talks after a three-year break, Israeli media said. They said that talks began shortly before 7:00 pm (1600 GMT) and wound up just before midnight. "The parties agreed to meet again within days," Haaretz daily's diplomatic correspondent Barak Ravid tweeted. He