Powell tries to jumpstart Israeli-Palestinian talks
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Secretary of State Colin Powell won a cautious pledge from Israel on Monday to ease its military grip over Palestinian areas in order to make possible an election to replace the late Yasser Arafat.
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JERUSALEM: US Secretary of State Colin Powell said he would press both Israeli and Palestinian leaders for steps to enable Palestinians to elect a successor to Yasser Arafat, as he arrived in Israel on Sunday.
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In a bid to &quot;re-energize&quot; the stalled Mideast peace process in the wake of Yasser Arafat&#39;s death, Secretary of State Colin Powell made his first visit to Israel
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Jerusalem: US Secretary of State Colin Powell, on a fresh Middle East peace push, was due here Sunday for talks with Israeli and Palestinian leaders ahead of January&#39;s election of a successor to Yasser Arafat.
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The Israeli and Palestinian leaders hold talks in Jerusalem designed to bolster the Palestinian government.
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US secretary of state Colin Powell is holding talks with Israeli and Palestinian leaders today, in a bid to revive Middle East diplomacy after the death of Yasser Arafat.
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Secretary of State Colin Powell said  on Saturday he hoped to meet Palestinian leaders soon as part  of a harder U.S. push for peace in the region following the  death of President Yasser Arafat.
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The US secretary of state is to visit the Middle East to try to revive Israeli-Palestinian peace moves.
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The US secretary of state is in the Middle East for talks with Israeli and Palestinian leaders amid fresh diplomacy.
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Secretary of State Colin L. Powell, arriving in Israel for his first visit in a year and a half, said he would work with Palestinian leaders to come up with an American
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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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President Bush opened his first presidential trip to Israel on Wednesday, seeking to build momentum for stalled Mideast peace talks and clear up confusion about whether the United States is serious about confronting Iran about its suspected nuclear ambitions.
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US Secretary of State Colin Powell has arrived in Israel determined to press both Israeli and Palestinian leaders for a process to enable Palestinians to elect a successor to Yasser Arafat.
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Palestinian Foreign Minister NabilShaath said Sunday that talks between outgoing US Secretary of State Colin Powell and Palestinian official on Monday would focus on making
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JERUSALEM Secretary of State Colin Powell, arriving in Israel for his first visit in a year and a half, said Sunday that he would work with Palestinian leaders to come up with an American financial aid package in the next few weeks to facilitate
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Israel and the Palestinians need to pick up the pace of peace negotiations if they hope to reach a deal this year, Palestinian Prime Minister Salam Fayyad said on Tuesday.
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Secretary of State Colin Powell called upon Palestinian leaders to seize on Israel&#39;s withdrawal from all Jewish settlements in the Gaza Strip and some West Bank enclaves, saying that the pullout plan might lead to bigger Israeli withdrawals later.