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Abbas Under Pressure to Extend Peace Talks
(Independent-UK) Ben Lynfield - Just hours after a meeting between U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry and Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas, Israel announced that the fourth round of Palestinian prisoner releases, which was supposed to take place on Saturday, would be postponed. "There will be no release on Saturday," Israeli Prison Authority spokeswoman Sivan Weizman said. Officials reiterated Israel's demand that the Palestinians first pledge themselves to extending the deadline on peace talks, which is due to expire at the end of April. Since last summer, Israel has so far freed 78 long-serving prisoners in three batches.