{"id":3548,"date":"2014-12-26T09:02:17","date_gmt":"2014-12-26T14:02:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=3548"},"modified":"2014-12-26T09:02:17","modified_gmt":"2014-12-26T14:02:17","slug":"ukraine-peace-talks-break-down-al-jazeera-english","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=3548","title":{"rendered":"Ukraine peace talks break down &#8211; Al Jazeera English"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/prelive.aljazeera.com\/news\/europe\/2014\/12\/ukraine-peace-talks-break-down-20141226131149787137.html\">Ukraine peace talks break down &#8211; Al Jazeera English<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p style=\"outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; font-size: 16px; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; max-width: 38em; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; padding: 0px; margin: 0px; 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A round of peace talks between Ukrainian and pro-Russian rebel leaders has been scrapped, the host of the negotiations -the foreign ministry of Belarus &#8211; has said. Dmitry Mironchik, a spokesman of the ministry, told the AP news agency that the talks broke down on Friday, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[919,694,2157,821],"class_list":["post-3548","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-geopolitics","tag-donetsk","tag-russia","tag-truce","tag-ukraine"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3548","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3548"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3548\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3549,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3548\/revisions\/3549"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3548"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3548"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3548"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}