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Taliban official says group spoke with US official

  ISLAMABAD --- A senior Taliban official says the insurgent group has held the first direct talks with a U.S. official in a preliminary discussion about future plans for peace negotiations.   This week's meeting with Alice Wells, the U.S.'s top diplomat for South Asia, was an attempt to jump-start talks on ending Washington's longest military engagement, a senior Taliban official told The Associated Press early Saturday.   U.S. officials neither confirmed nor denied a meeting took place.   The Taliban have long demanded direct talks with Washington.   "The discussion was preliminary, initial and both discussed a future meeting and ...

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