Obama appoints key hotspot envoys -- BBC

US President Barack Obama has named his two key envoys - to the Middle East, and Pakistan and Afghanistan.

Richard Holbrooke has been named envoy to Afghanistan and Pakistan. He brokered the 1995 deal that ended the war in the former Yugoslavia.
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