Middle East unmoved by US summit
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Bush encounters weak welcomes for his call for an international peacemaking conference.
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Viewpoint: The Bush Administration appears unable to play Washington's traditional crisis-management role in the Middle East. That may be because it doesn't talk to Israel's enemies
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The US Secretary of State, Colin Powell, will co-chair a conference on the Middle East and North Africa in Morocco today. Ministers from some 30 Arab, Muslim and Western nations are to attend the meeting to
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The Middle East is entering a historic process. Iraq under US occupation, and Palestine under Israeli occupation will hold two critical elections in January (if they are not postponed).
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TEHRAN -- Iran yesterday touted its weekend summit with the Iraqi and Syrian presidents, scheduled only days before President Bush holds a summit of his own with Iraq's prime minister. With the United States looking for a way out of Iraq, Tehran is aiming to secure a larger role in the region.
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The US president calls for international talks in a bid to restart the stalled Middle East peace process.
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A Middle East peace conference called by U.S. President George W. Bush lacks a framework, Egyptian president Hosni Mubarak was quoted as saying on Saturday.
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MANAMA: Gulf Cooperation Council leaders ended the Zayed Summit Tuesday without resolving a bitter dispute over Bahrain&#39;s trade deal with the US which led to Saudi Arabia&#39;s de facto leader boycotting the summit.
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US-funded efforts to spread democracy in Middle East meet with resistance.
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The United States launched a new push to revive Middle East peace moves on Wednesday, with Washington under pressure from Arab allies to make it a priority.
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World leaders, tearing up a carefully prepared agenda for their annual summit, turned their attention to a growing crisis in the Middle East that has highlighted the differences between President Bush and major U.S. allies.
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By Anton La Guardia, Diplomatic Editor and Inigo Gilmore in Herzliya. Israel threw its weight yesterday behind Tony Blair&#39;s plans to hold an international Middle East conference in London in February, but left
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The four sponsors of the Middle East peace process discuss a US-led summit planned for November.
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Israelis, Americans, Arabs and dignitaries from around the world have been welcome in this "city of peace" that will host Tuesday's Mideast summit. One man, however, had been kept at a distance until now: Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon.
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RABAT, Morocco, Dec. 11 -- Senior Arab officials attending a U.S.-sponsored conference to promote democracy in the Middle East emphatically rejected on Saturday the Bush administration's assertion that greater democracy in the region would help end terrorism. They argued that the administration's strong support of Israel made it difficult to undertake political reform or to stop extremists driven by hatred of U.S. policies.
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Israeli and Palestinian leaders are set to meet to try to ease peace problems ahead of the US president's key tour.
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Arab, Muslim and Western nations gather in Morocco on Saturday in an effort to promote economic and political reform in the Middle East that is widely seen within the region as US meddling.