Mubarak and Arafat discuss Israeli pullout plan
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Cairo: Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak held telephone talks with Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat about Israel&#39;s plan to pull troops and the 8,000 Jewish settlers out of the Gaza Strip next year, the Egyptian news agency Mena said.
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Israeli MPs have resumed a debate on Prime Minister Ariel Sharon&#39;s disengagement plan, which is expected to culminate in a historic vote in favour of a pull-out of troops and settlers from the Gaza Strip.
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International Middle East peace envoy Tony Blair held talks with Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak on Tuesday on efforts to relaunch the peace process, the official MENA news agency reported.
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Palestinian leader Mahmoud Abbas,  frontrunner to succeed Yasser Arafat, said Wednesday that he  expected negotiations on Israel's plan to withdraw from the  Gaza Strip after Palestinian elections next month.
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Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak said negotiations for the release of an Israeli soldier captured by Palestinian militants are in their final stage, according to a newspaper report on Wednesday.
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International Middle East peace envoy Tony Blair has held talks with Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak on efforts to relaunch the peace process, the official MENA news agency reported Tuesday.
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Doctors attending to Yasser Arafat will decide in the next few hours whether to take the ailing Palestinian leader to a hospital. Our correspondent, Jane Hutcheon, says two teams of doctors from Egypt and
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Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon and Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas will try to end four years of bloodshed and take a step back toward negotiations at a summit in Egypt Tuesday.
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Palestinian premier Ahmed Qorei is to hold talks with senior officials in Egypt this week over Israel's planned pullout from the Gaza Strip and the possibility of a new truce by armed factions.
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Israel Prime Minister Ariel Sharon&#39;s plan to withdraw from the Gaza Strip will be put to parliament in two weeks. Speaking at the start of a new session of the Knesset, Mr Sharon told Israeli MPs that the plan would be debated on 25 October.
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Israel held out the prospect on  Monday of coordinating a planned unilateral Gaza pullout with  the Palestinians if a new leadership succeeding Yasser Arafat  cracked down on militants.
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SHARM EL-SHEIKH, Egypt  - Israeli Prime Minister  Ariel Sharon and Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas will try  to end four years of bloodshed and take a step back toward  negotiations at a summit in Egypt Tuesday.
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Analysis: Israel wants Egypt to reseal the border. But to do that Egypt needs agreement with both Hamas and President Abbas  -  and the Palestinians aren't talking to each other
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Visiting Egyptian Foreign Minister Ahmed Abul Gheit said he plans to travel next week to Israel and underscore the need for Israel's total pullout from Gaza.
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Egypt's foreign minister and Israel's prime minister on Wednesday discussed the terms of a planned Israeli withdrawal from the Gaza Strip in 2005, including the deployment of hundreds of Egyptian troops to ensure calm along the volatile Egypt-Gaza border.
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MANAMA, Bahrain -- Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak engaged Persian Gulf leaders yesterday in an effort to build momentum toward peace in the Middle East, calling for support of the new Palestinian leadership and talking up the prospects of an Israeli-Palestinian settlement.
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Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak engaged Persian Gulf leaders Wednesday in an effort to build momentum toward peace in the Middle East, calling for support of the new Palestinian