Israel coalition deal expected
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Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon approved the release of 170 Palestinian prisoners on Sunday as he looked to bolster the new moderate PLO chairman Mahmoud Abbas and cement his own hold on power by finalising a new broad-based coalition.
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Israel's opposition Labour party authorises its leader to begin talks on joining a national unity government.
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JERUSALEM  - Israel inched closer to a new coalition government that will enforce next year&#39;s planned pullout from the Gaza Strip, where nine Palestinians were killed in an upsurge of violence.
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The Israeli prime minister's Likud Party  reaches a deal with the opposition Labour Party to form a coalition.
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Prime Minister Ariel Sharon's Likud  party and opposition Labor haggled over power-sharing on Sunday  in a coalition deal crucial for pushing through an Israeli  withdrawal from the occupied Gaza Strip.
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Israeli political parties were yesterday bogged down in hard bargaining over the formation of a new coalition government to implement the plan of Ariel Sharon, prime minister, to
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Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon&#39;s Likud Party voted to support talks to bring Labor and other opposition parties into the coalition to keep the government afloat after it lost its last remaining partner a week ago.
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Premier Sharon has already begun to initiate coalition negotiations with Labor, UTJ and Shas, following his significant victory at last nightâs Likud convention vote, which overturned a previous decision by the central committee nixing a coalition with
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Coalition negotiating teams of the Likud and Labor Parties agreed today that Peres will become Israel&#39;s first-ever &quot;Associate Prime Minister&quot; and the senior minister in the government after the Prime Minister.
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Israel's PM Ariel Sharon expects a new government to be in place next week, after a deal with a religious party.
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Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon  said Thursday he would seek a governing coalition with Shimon  Peres's Labor Party and pledged to press ahead with a planned  Gaza pullout.
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THE Israeli Labor party leader Shimon Peres, who is due to begin negotiations today over forming a coalition with the ruling Likud party, believes that Ariel Sharon will eventually be prepared to withdraw from more West Bank land than the small amount
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Likud and Labor Party officials said Sunday they hope to sign a coalition agreement Monday or Tuesday. The head of the Likud&#39;s negotiating team, Yoram Raved, told
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Prime Minister Ariel Sharon meeting with members of his Likud Party last week. The partyâs Central Committee has authorized him to form a coalition cabinet with Labor.
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Party MKs argue abstention would suffice. Meanwhile, Sharon headed for defeat of 2005 state budget, will likely use loss to try and persuade Likud to approve alliance with Labor.
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A power-sharing pact may end Gaza fighting, but will Israel and the US recognize its terms?
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Israelâs Labour Party voted today to join Prime Minister Ariel Sharonâs ruling coalition, a move that makes it easier for the Israeli leader to implement his Gaza withdrawal plan.