Shaheen says the Mecca talks will produce a long-term truce only if Hamas makes a clear ideological and financial break with its main sponsor, Iran, and embraces the two-state solution political platform of Fatah.

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The Italian tenor, Roberto Alagna, is relentlessly ardent as her lover, the painter Mario Cavaradossi (if their endless embraces seem remarkably natural, it may be because the two singers are married to each other).

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