Quartet urges settlement freeze The international Quartet of Mid-East peace mediators urges Israel to freeze settlement activity in occupied territories. Rio Tinto China deal ahead of trial Rio Tinto signs a deal with China to develop a huge iron ore project in Guinea, days before four of its executives go on trial in Shanghai. Swiss probe deportee's death Switzerland halts special flights to deport asylum seekers after a Nigerian man on hunger strike died at Zurich airport.