ISRAEL TALKS CALLED OFF
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ISRAEL&#39;S prime minister Ariel Sharon cancelled a meeting with Jack Straw yesterday - because he lost his voice. The Foreign Secretary was scheduled to meet Sharon during a two-day visit to the Middle East.
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JERUSALEM -- Israel yesterday severed contact with the new Palestinian president, Mahmoud Abbas, over an attack at a Gaza border crossing that killed six Israelis, saying it wanted to see what steps Abbas would take to crack down on militants before any further dealings with him.
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Israel on Tuesday ruled out negotiations "at this stage" on the borders of a future Palestinian state, rebuffing Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas and casting doubt on a U.S. push to tackle the issue.
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Israel's prime minister on Thursday said it was wrong to link the Arab-Israeli conflict with woes in the Middle East and ruled out any immediate talks with Syria despite a U.S. report urging negotiations.
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TALKS between Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon and settlers opposed to his Gaza pullout plan ended in acrimony yesterday amid warnings the country could face civil war.
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Israeli PM Ariel Sharon freezes relations with the Palestinians following an attack which left six Israelis dead.
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Israel's Housing Ministry backed away on Thursday from a preliminary proposal to build homes on occupied land near Jerusalem that had been criticized by Palestinian and Israeli officials.
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The Indo-European Union summit to be held on October 13-14 in The Hague has been cancelled.
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In a startling reversal, Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon cut all contact Friday with the newly elected Palestinian leader and said Mahmoud Abbas must halt militant attacks if he wants peace talks. The timing of the decision &#151; on the eve of Abbas' inauguration &#151; was a major snub.
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An additional display of the rift formed between Prime Minister Ariel Sharon and the settlers came late Monday night after residents of Gush Katif canceled a meeting scheduled for today with Sharon, explaining that the meeting would be pointless since
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Talks on Iran's nuclear ambitions were abruptly called off on Tuesday because of Russian anger at the United States for raising a hunger strike by a jailed opposition politician in Belarus.
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The chief negotiator for the city of Fallujah said Monday that he had called off peace talks with the Iraqi government on the orders of guerrillas who control the city
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Palestinian leaders abruptly called off a visit to Yasser Arafatâs bedside today, after the ailing leaderâs wife accused them of trying to depose her husband.
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Nuclear talks between Iranian and European officials broke off in Vienna on Monday and diplomats said it was because the Iranian negotiator would not discuss issues of substance.
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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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Egypt has played down its offer to talk to Israel about reviving Israeli-Syria peace talks, which broke down four years ago. After talks in the Egyptian city of Sharm al-Shaikh on Tuesday between President
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Egypt has cancelled political talks with senior European Union officials after a European Parliament resolution criticised the state of human rights in Egypt, the Foreign Ministry said on Saturday.