Israel Resuming Talks with Palestinians
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Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon has lifted a ban on peace talks with new Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas imposed after six Israelis were killed in a Gaza border ambush, political sources said on Wednesday.
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The Israeli and Palestinian leaders agreed Tuesday to begin tackling the core issues of a peace agreement in a push to revive stalled negotiations ahead of the arrival of President Bush.
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Israeli and Palestinian leaders prepare for talks to try to defuse a row over Jewish settlement activity.
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Israeli and Palestinian officials on Wednesday held high-level political talks for the first time since Israel suspended contacts two weeks ago after saying that the new president of the Palestinian Authority, Mahmoud Abbas, was not doing enough to combat terrorism.
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Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon  has approved a start to diplomatic talks with the Palestinians  in response to a lull in militant attacks secured by their new  leader Mahmoud Abbas, officials said on Wednesday. The decision  came hours before senior U.S. diplomat William Burns was to  arrive on a fresh White House mission to revive a "road map"  peace plan envisaging a Palestinian state in the West Bank and  Gaza Strip co-existing with a secure Israel.
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Secretary of State Colin Powell sought to revive long-stalled peace efforts in separate talks with Israeli and Palestinian leaders.
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Israelis and Palestinians trade recriminations in their first detailed peace talks in almost seven years.
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The president also called for an autumn meeting of Israelis, Palestinians and their neighbors to help restart peace talks.
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Israel will allow dozens of exiled  Palestinian militants to return home in a move likely to  bolster Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas's effort to talk  Islamist militants into a truce, officials said on Saturday.
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SDEROT, Israel -- Israel renewed limited contacts with the Palestinian Authority yesterday as the two sides held security talks to discuss a spike in violence in the Gaza Strip, Israeli and Palestinian officials said.
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Israel is considering relaxing its criteria for releasing Palestinian prisoners, officials said on Monday before the start of another round of peace talks bogged down by disputes over settlements.
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Israeli-Palestinian talks on security coordination scheduled after a ceasefire summit meeting were postponed on Thursday because of a fresh outbreak of violence, Palestinian officials said.
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Mahmoud Abbas, speaking with Prime Minister Tony Blair of Britain at his side, renewed his call today for peace talks with Israel.
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Prime Minister Tony Blair has arrived back from his diplomatic mission to the Middle East to try to resurrect the peace process. Mr Blair held talks with his Israeli counterpart, Ariel Sharon, and the Palestinian leader, Mahmoud Abbas.
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The US is gearing up for possible re-engagement in an Israeli-Palestinian peace process that has been on hold for most of the last four years because of a Palestinian terrorism war and Israeli countermeasures.
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Israel resumed building one of the  most controversial parts of its West Bank barrier, deep in  occupied land, in a move Palestinians said Monday clouded new  President Mahmoud Abbas's efforts to revive peacemaking.
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Israel resumed building one of the most controversial parts of its West Bank barrier, deep in occupied land, in a move Palestinians said on Monday clouded new President Mahmoud Abbas's efforts to revive peacemaking.