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希拉里呼吁以色列以及巴勒斯坦人立即重新展开和平谈判，并不应预设条件。星期六，克林顿和以色列总理纳塔尼亚胡在耶路撒冷举办联合记者会的时候，做出上面的评论。希拉里说，回应巴勒斯坦人对于重启和平会谈的关切，以色列正在对犹太人定居点的扩张做出“史无前例”的限制。阿巴斯的发言人星期六稍晚回应说，巴勒斯坦人的立场没有改变。

阿卜杜拉宣布不参加阿富汗总统决选

阿富汗总统竞选人阿卜杜拉宣布将不参加下星期六的总统选举决选。阿卜杜拉星期日在喀布尔召开的新闻发布会上向部落长老宣布了这一决定，电视进行了转播。

关塔纳摩六维族囚犯抵达帕劳

据美国政府官员和权益组织人士证实，曾被美国关押在古巴关塔纳摩基地的六名维吾尔人获释，他们已在1日上午抵达太平洋岛国帕劳。

希拉里将于6日会晤日外相协商普天间问题

美国国务院10月31日透露称，国务卿希拉里将于当地时间11月6日在美国防部与日本外相冈田克也进行会谈。在驻日美军普天间机场的搬迁问题上，美国政府敦促日方在11月12日奥巴马访日前作出决断，预计会谈上冈田将就自身考虑的将普天间机场并入嘉手纳基地的方案与希拉里进行协商。冈田希望面对面地向希拉里转达希望年内解决普天间机场搬迁问题的想法，获取美方的理解。同时他也想试探将普天间机场并入嘉手纳基地的可能性。

澳大利亚石油钻井发生火灾

澳大利亚一个石油钻井发生火灾。两个多月来，这个石油钻井一直向澳大利亚帝汶海西北沿海泄漏大量原油。负责这个石油钻井营运工作的澳亚PTTEP公司星期天发表声明说，在距海岸大约250公里处工作的所有人员都安然无恙，非必要岗位的工人正在撤离。工人们第四次尝试堵住一个漏洞时发生火灾。自从8月21号以来，每天有大约400桶原油从这个漏洞泄漏。生态学家担心，原油和用于消除浮油的化学制剂的混合物可能会对海洋及沿岸生物构成威胁。

Clinton Asks Abbas to Return to Talks

Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton failed Saturday to persuade the Palestinian leader to accept an Israeli proposal that would slow but not stop the construction of Jewish settlements in the West Bank and East Jerusalem.

The Palestinian leader, Mahmoud Abbas, insisted that Israel must halt all construction of housing units before broader negotiations could begin. He rebuffed an Israeli proposal — developed by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and relayed by Mrs. Clinton — to complete about 3,000 units and temporarily freeze other construction, the chief Palestinian negotiator, Saeb Erekat, said after the meeting.

American officials insist Mrs. Clinton did not push Mr. Abbas to accept the Israeli proposal in her two-hour meeting with him, which was hastily arranged and took place in Abu Dhabi,. But she made clear later she was eager to narrow the gap between the two sides.

“We know that negotiations often take positions that then have to be worked through, once the actual process starts,” she said at a news conference in Jerusalem, where she met with Mr. Netanyahu.

She also markedly softened her tone on whether Israel should cease all settlement construction, something she and Mr. Obama have demanded since early in the administration. While Mrs. Clinton said the administration’s desire to see a complete freeze had not changed, she characterized Mr. Netanyahu’s offer of “restraint” on settlements as “unprecedented.”

Occupiers involved in drug trade: Afghan minister

The Afghan minister of counter narcotics says foreign troops are earning money from drug production in Afghanistan.

General Khodaidad Khodaidad said the majority of drugs are stockpiled in two provinces controlled by troops from the US, the UK, and Canada, IRNA reported on Saturday.

He went on to say that NATO forces are taxing the production of opium in the regions under their control.

Afghanistan is the world's biggest supplier of opium.

Drug production in the Central Asian country has increased dramatically since the US-led invasion eight years ago.

A recent report by the United Nations states that Afghan opium is having a devastating impact on the world, killing thousands in consumer countries.

Meanwhile, The New York Times reported on Wednesday that Ahmad Wali Karzai, a brother of the Afghan president, is involved in the opium trade, meets with Taliban leaders, and is also a CIA operative.

The opium trade is the major source of Taliban financing.

Khatami: We will remain critical of power

Iran's former president Mohammad Khatami says the Reformist movement will continue its criticism within the boundaries of the Islamic Republic.

“We will continue to stay critical of the current power trend, of course within the framework of a movement that supports Islam, the Islamic Republic and the [1979] Revolution,” Khatami told a group of university students active in pro-Reform societies.

“We still see Islam as the basis of our Reform movement. Its identity is built around the Islamic Revolution and its framework is outlined by the Islamic Republic,” he said.

“However, we believe that their have been some deviations which must be set rights with those very same religious and Revolutionary principles. Unfortunately some try to portray these deviations as the Islamic Republic itself,” he added.

Khatami, who currently heads the International Institute for Dialogue among Cultures and Civilizations, said the Reformist movement denounces violence “by all means”, while certain other parties endorse it as the basis of their thoughts and actions.

Khatami, who was addressing students from the University of Tehran and the Tehran University of Medical Sciences, also noted that the “serious questions” that you have regarding recent events in the country shows that the country is facing a crisis.

The former president pointed out that we can continue to seek a free, progressive and just system of government by working with the current constitution of the Islamic Republic.