Arcelor and Mittal said near peace deal
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Steel firms Mittal  and Arcelor   are drawing close to a friendly merger deal that  would end a six-month hostile bidding war and forge the world&#039;s  largest steel company, French newspaper La Tribune reported on  Friday.
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Nuclear-armed rivals India and Pakistan agreed on an array of measures to promote peace in South Asia but remained far apart on their key dispute -- the future of divided Kashmir.
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NAIROBI  - A final peace deal to end 21 years of conflict in southern Sudan could be clinched at the end of the month in line with a pledge by Khartoum and the main southern rebel group, officials said.
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NEW YORK: Pakistan and India on Friday agreed to explore possible options for a peaceful and negotiated settlement of the issue of Jammu and Kashmir in a sincere spirit and purposeful manner.
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Pakistan and India have reported progress in their year-long peace process but they remain far apart on ways to resolve their territorial dispute over Kashmir, the cause of two of the three wars between them.
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A final peace deal to end 21 years of conflict in southern Sudan could be clinched at the end of the month in line with a pledge by Khartoum and the main southern rebel group, officials said.
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India&#39;s Foreign Minister Natwar Singh says both India and Pakistan should not expect major breakthroughs in talks this Sunday aimed at building peace between the rivals.
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opposition to promise to complete by December 31 a comprehensive peace agreement ending a 21-year civil war. Security Council would put pressure on both sides to wrap up the accord.
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Mittal Steel  , which is  taking over rival steelmaker Arcelor , said on Tuesday  it might not have to buy out minority shareholdings in  Arcelor&#039;s two Brazilian subsidiaries, Acesita S.A. and Arcelor  Brasil S.A., as previously expected.
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Israeli and Palestinian negotiators hammering out terms for a peace summit agreed on Sunday to postpone resolving a dispute on releasing Palestinian prisoners that had clouded hope of a breakthrough.
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Mittal Steel, the biggest steel producer in the world, announced that it had acquired at least 50 percent of Arcelor shares, the minimum amount Mittal has set for the takeover to go ahead.
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A powerful rebel group in India's troubled northeast has offered to hold conditional peace talks with authorities to end more than a quarter-century of separatist conflict, a mediator said on Tuesday.
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NEW DELHI -- After eight months of slow progress toward lasting peace, foreign ministers from India and Pakistan met yesterday to search for solutions to their main dispute, the 57-year-old conflict over the divided territory of Kashmir.
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Israel's ruling Likud and opposition Labour parties plan to seal a deal on Saturday to forge a unity coalition seen as crucial to carrying out Prime Minister Ariel Sharon's Gaza pullout plan, party officials said.
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Decision time was looming for Arcelor as marathon talks intensified ahead of a board meeting that will decide which other steelmaker to take down the aisle, sources following the discussions said.
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The ball was in Arcelor&#039;s court as the steel manufacturer&#039;s board prepared to respond to a sweetened 25.8 billion-euro (32.9 billion-dollar) offer from rival Mittal Steel.
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An international agreement, leading to a cease-fire in the Israel-Hezbollah conflict, is possible sometime in the next few days, British Prime Minister Tony Blair said Saturday.