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Have Liverpool just struck a decisive blow in the title race?

On 12 January, a senior Palestinian official familiar with the negotiations said "all the officials are here in the same building", adding: "Tonight is decisive. We are only a few steps away from an agreement."

There was little difference between the pair in a tight first set and Fearnley losing his serve to love in the sixth game was decisive.

"The West faces a decisive challenge: To not become a society divided into two classes, the rich landlords and poor tenants," he said.

The military has acknowledged conducting air strikes, which it said had dealt "a decisive blow to bandits terrorising villages in the area".