Summary: Egypt, Israel swap prisoners
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WHAT HAPPENED: Egypt released businessman Azzam Azzam, convicted of spying for Israel, for six Egyptian students suspected of trying to kidnap Israeli soldiers.
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Egypt sent a convicted Israeli spy  home after eight years in jail and Israel released six Egyptian  infiltrators on Sunday in a sign that relations strained by the  Palestinian uprising were warming.
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JERUSALEM -- Israel yesterday approved the release of 170 Palestinian prisoners in a goodwill gesture to Egypt and encouragement to interim Palestinian leader Mahmoud Abbas in hopes of future negotiations.
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Israel freed 159 Palestinian prisoners on Monday as a gesture to Egypt and moderate new Palestinian leader Mahmoud Abbas, but he called for a &quot;serious release&quot; of thousands of security detainees.
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Analysis: Israel wants Egypt to reseal the border. But to do that Egypt needs agreement with both Hamas and President Abbas  -  and the Palestinians aren't talking to each other
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Israeli officials see opportunity to turn Gaza over to Egypt to provide services.
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CAIRO- - Israel will release within hours six Egyptian students arrested in August and charged with conspiring to abduct and kill Israeli soldiers, the Egyptian state newspaper al-Ahram reported on Sunday.
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Egypt released today an Israeli convicted of spying and Israel reciprocated by freeing six young Egyptians arrested in August after slipping into Israel's southern desert.
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Palestinian militants have agreed to a conditional release of the kidnapped Israeli soldier but Israel has not yet accepted their terms, Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak said in remarks published Friday.
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Israel says it&#39;s considering releasing some Palestinian prisoners -- as part of a deal in which Egypt has freed an Israeli Arab man convicted of spying.
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A DRAMATIC prisoner exchange between Israel and Egypt at the weekend is the clearest sign yet that a new age of peacemaking and diplomacy between Cairo and Jerusalem has begun.
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IN A Cold War-style swap, Egypt handed over a convicted Israeli spy yesterday in exchange for six Egyptian students - a deal that signalled a warming of relations between the two countries.
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The prisoner swap deal between Israel and Egypt is one of the most vivid signs of a warming in the &quot;cold peace&quot; between the two countries.
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In a series of dramatic steps capped Sunday by a high-profile prisoner swap, Israel and Egypt are moving rapidly to improve relations, seizing the opportunity for a Middle East peace deal presented by Yasser Arafat's death.
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Israel has released six Egyptian students in exchange for Israeli businessman Azzam Azzam in a prisoner swap today, Arab television Al Arabiya reported.
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A landmark prisoner swap between Israel and Egypt could help pave the way for broader reconciliation between the Jewish state and the Arab world, Israeli Foreign Minister Silvan Shalom says.
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CAIRO, Egypt  - In a series of dramatic steps capped Sunday by a high-profile prisoner swap, Israel and Egypt are moving rapidly to improve relations, seizing the opportunity for a Middle East peace deal presented by Yasser Arafat's death.