Hezbollah reportedly gave a deadline of one month for prisoner-swap talks with Israel. The newspaper Al-Ittihad, based in the United Arab Emirates, reported Wednesday that Hezbollah leader Sheik Hassan Nasrallah informed German mediators of the Jan. 20 deadline amid growing impatience over the unfinished deal.
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