Rice sees hope in Mideast truce; Gaza rocket fired
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DEAD SEA, Jordan  - Militants in Gaza fired a rocket into Israel on Friday and Israeli troops killed a Palestinian in the West Bank, hours after U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice expressed hope for a shaky 5-day truce.
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Israeli-Palestinian talks hosted by U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice ended on Monday with little sign of progress on reviving long-stalled peace negotiations beyond a vague promise to meet again.
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US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice is expected to press Israel to ease Gaza border restrictions, on her regional tour.
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How Condoleezza Rice hopes to bring peace to the Middle East--and salvage the Administration's foreign policy
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WASHINGTON -- Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice will visit the Middle East next week to press Israeli-Palestinian peace efforts amid doubts from some Arab states about the usefulness of an international meeting she plans to host in the fall, the State Department said Wednesday.
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Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice on Monday said she would return soon to the Middle East to push forward with attempts to restart peace making.
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Israel is examining a Hamas truce proposal delivered by Egypt, defense officials said Thursday after at least six Palestinians were killed in a day of Israeli air and ground strikes aimed at stopping rocket salvos from Gaza.
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Palestinian militants fired several rockets at Israel from Gaza on Sunday just hours after the start of a ceasefire aimed at ending five months of bloodshed in the impoverished coastal strip.
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A Gaza ceasefire to halt Palestinian rocket attacks on Israel and a five-month-old Israeli military offensive in the territory began on Sunday.
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Palestinian Prime Minister Ismail Haniyeh said Monday he wants Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice to force Israel to end its nearly month-old offensive in the Gaza Strip as new attacks killed six Palestinians.
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Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice said Tuesday a U.S.-sponsored Mideast peace conference this fall will confront "critical issues" in the Israel-Palestine conflict
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DEAD SEA, Jordan, Nov. 29 -- Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice will meet Thursday with Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert and the Palestinian Authority's president, Mahmoud Abbas, as part of a U.S. effort to demonstrate progress on the Israeli-Palestinian peace effort.
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WASHINGTON -- Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice and some US allies agreed yesterday to try to revive the Israeli-Palestinian peace process, but clashed over how to handle the Palestinian militant group Hamas and one of its key backers, Syria.
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ANKARA/JERUSALEM  - Secretary of State Condoleezza  Rice said on Saturday Washington was ready to help Middle East  peacemaking but the best outcome would be for Israelis and  Palestinians to go on making progress on their own.
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Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice said Wednesday that a "two-state solution" in the Middle East was in jeopardy and described a narrow window of opportunity to push Israel and the Palestinians toward peace.
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RAMALLAH, West Bank  - U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice met Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas on Thursday to try to bridge his differences with Israel over what a U.S.-led Middle East peace conference might achieve.
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JERUSALEM -- Israel and the Palestinians agreed to a cease-fire yesterday to end a five-month Israeli military offensive in the Gaza Strip and the firing of rockets by Palestinian militants into the Jewish state, but early violations by Palestinian militants tempered hopes the accord would help revive long-stalled peace talks.