Powell wins Israeli pledge on Palestinian vote
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Israel has pledged it would do all it can to help a smooth election to choose a successor to the late Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat, including allowing Arabs in occupied and annexed east Jerusalem to vote.
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Israel announces measures to ensure what PM Ariel Sharon calls a "free and fair" Palestinian election.
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Israel leaders today assured Colin Powell that they will do their utmost to ensure that Palestinian elections to choose a successor to Yassir Arafat go smoothly, including easing
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JERUSALEM - Israel and the Palestinians yesterday agreed on how to hold next month&#39;s election to replace Yasser Arafat â-he latest evidence of progress toward peace in the post-Arafat era.
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During meetings Monday with Prime Minister Ariel Sharon and Foreign Minister Silvan Shalom, US Secretary of State Colin Powell is expected to ask Israel not to disrupt the January 9 elections in the Palestinian Authority.
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By Saul Hudson SANTIAGO, Chile  - Outgoing Secretary of StateColin Powell praised Israel and the Palestinians on Wednesdayfor seeking to make January's election for a successor toPresident Yasser Arafat work.
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Reviving a long-dormant U.S.  peacemaking role, Secretary of State Colin Powell won an  Israeli pledge on Monday to allow Palestinians freedom of  movement to enable them to hold an election for Yasser Arafat's  successor.
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RAMALLAH, West Bank  - Middle East peace hopes  were boosted Monday when Mahmoud Abbas was elected Palestinian  president and the Israeli parliament endorsed Ariel Sharon's  new coalition to implement his planned Gaza pullout.
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JERUSALEM  - US Secretary of State Colin Powell arrived in Israel, with Washington determined to push forward the Middle East peace process ahead of January&#39;s election to find a successor to Yasser Arafat.
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U.S. President George W. Bush and Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert on Tuesday pledged to bolster Palestinian leader Mahmoud Abbas, as Israel tightened the diplomatic and economic embargo on Hamas Islamists who control Gaza.
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Secretary of State Colin Powell  launched a new Middle East peace drive on Sunday by saying he  would press both Israeli and Palestinian leaders for steps to  help Palestinians elect a successor to Yasser Arafat.
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JERUSALEM -- Nobel peace laureate Shimon Peres was sworn in as Israel's president yesterday and pledged to seize the opportunity to encourage long-delayed efforts to achieve a diplomatic resolution to conflict in the Middle East.
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Former Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu looked virtually assured of reelection as leader of the rightist Likud party after it gave him a key vote of confidence on Tuesday.
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Secretary of State Colin L. Powell said Monday that he had won a commitment from Israel to let Palestinians living in Jerusalem take part in elections in January and
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Arriving in the Middle East for talks with Israeli and Palestinian leaders, Secretary of State Colin Powell said yesterday he would press both sides to take steps to enable Palestinians to elect a legitimate successor to Yasser Arafat.
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Secretary of State Colin Powell  called on Monday for an end to violence and urged Israel and  the Palestinians to facilitate Palestinian elections as he  sought to revive a long-dormant U.S. peacemaking role.
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The Palestinian president draws cheers by vowing that his government will recognize Israel. But he forgot about Hamas