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The South Sudan crisis is still on-going, although delegates at the peace talks in Addis Ababa have again met face-to-face, according to China Network Television (CNTV), a national web-based TV broadcaster in China.

Mediators say they have narrowed the gap between them but so far, although there's no deal, CNTV reported.

For the past 11 days, the Sheraton Hotel in Addis has hosted these on-off peace talks. The mediators remain optimistic.

"We have harmonised the two papers from the two delegations and at the moment, we are trying to thrash out any issues they may have," said General Lazarus Sumbeiywo, a mediator from the Inter-Governmental Authority on Development (IGAD), the eight-nation Horn of Africa bloc which is at the forefront of the peace-making efforts.

One big obstacle remains -- Juba's detention of 11 political detainees. South Sudan President Salva Kiir has so far defied international pressure for their release.

Rebel leader Riek Machar, who Kiir sacked in July last year as vice-president on claims of planning to overthrow the government, has defied pressure to drop demands for their release.

Both men look to have dug in, and even for their representatives at these talks, it is deeply frustrating.

Mediators insist they are making progress. But so far, there's no agreement even on common ground - let alone a ceasefire. These talks are now heading into a third week. – SAnews.gov.za-NNN-Xinhua

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An Indian diplomat whose arrest and strip-search caused a major rift in U.S.-Indian ties was effectively expelled from the United States on Thursday as part of a deal in which she was granted diplomatic immunity from charges of visa fraud and lying about underpaying her nanny.

Devyani Khobragade, who was deputy consul-general in New York, was arrested on December 12 and indicted on Thursday by a grand jury for visa fraud and making false statements about how much she paid her housekeeper.

Her arrest set off protests in India amid disclosures that she was handcuffed and strip-searched. The dispute soured the broader U.S.-India bilateral relationship, leading to sanctions against American diplomats in New Delhi and the postponement of visits to India by senior U.S. officials and another by a U.S. business delegation.

A United Nations diplomat familiar with the case said Khobragade had flown out of the United States. In India, the foreign ministry said she was being transferred to a post in New Delhi.

Khobragade's lawyer Daniel Arshack said she would leave with her head "held high."

"She knows she has done no wrong and she looks forward to assuring that the truth is known," he said in a statement.

While both New Delhi and Washington stressed the importance of their bilateral relationship during the crisis, it has taken weeks of complex wrangling to find a workable solution both sides could live with.

Documents and statements from U.S. officials reveal a dizzying 24 hours in which the State Department granted Khobragade diplomatic immunity, unsuccessfully asked India to waive that immunity and ordered her to leave the country immediately.