Israel coalition deal to be inked
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Israel's governing Likud Party and opposition Labour Party are due to sign an agreement to form a coalition.
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The rival Hamas and Fatah movements agreed on a plan implicitly recognizing Israel, a top Palestinian official said Tuesday after weeks of acrimonious negotiations meant to lift crippling international aid sanctions.
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The two main political parties in Israel have hit an obstacle in their talks on forming a government of national unity. Israeli officials had expected a deal yesterday between the Likud Party of Prime Minister Ariel Sharon and the Opposition Labour Party.
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Labor will enter a coalition government with the Likud to make sure Prime Minister Ariel Sharon can carry out his disengagement plan, Opposition leader Shimon Peres said Monday.
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Israeli PM Ariel Sharon's Likud party is to  vote on whether to invite the opposition Labour Party into the coalition.
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Israel's opposition Labour party is  likely to join Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon's coalition  next week, a move that could promote his Gaza pullout plan and  avoid early elections, Sharon's spokesman said on Friday.
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Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon said Thursday he would seek a coalition with Shimon Peres's Labor Party and pledged to press ahead with a planned Gaza pullout.
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Palestinians and Israelis have agreed in  principle to proposals aiming to end their conflict, Egypt's  official news agency MENA said Tuesday.
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Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon is to name opposition leader Shimon Peres as his deputy in a coalition deal.
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Israel and the Palestinian Authority  are trying to work out a deal to end the army's Gaza offensive  in return for stopping militants firing rockets into the Jewish  state, Israeli security sources said Tuesday.
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JERUSALEM -- Prime Minister Ariel Sharon of Israel asked the Labor Party yesterday to join his ruling coalition, a move that would bolster his chances of carrying out a withdrawal from the Gaza Strip next year.
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Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon has reached out to his opposition rival with an invitation to enter discussion on forming a new coalition government.
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An agreement for a coalition partnership between Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon&#39;s party Likud and main opposition Labor Party was snagged on a constitutional problem over the position of Vice Prime Minister which Labor Party leader Simon Peres
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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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JERUSALEM: Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon and Labour Party leader Shimon Peres reached a deal on Thursday that appeared to clear a final obstacle towards forming a unity government that would press ahead with a Gaza pullout.
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Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon&#39;s Likud party agreed on Thursday to a possible alliance with opposition Labour in a vote that averted a snap election and strengthened his Gaza withdrawal plan.
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With its latest victory at the Likud Party convention under its belt, the settlement movement intends to deal Prime Minister Ariel Sharon&#39;s plan for unilateral separation its final blow in a door-to-door campaign that organizers say could reach one