Sharon, Peres Reach Deal on New Israeli Government
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Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon  reached a deal with Shimon Peres on Thursday to name the  opposition leader his senior deputy, clearing a key obstacle to  a unity government able to abandon the occupied Gaza Strip.
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Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon said in an interview published on Sunday that he was ready to meet Palestinian leader Mahmoud Abbas and try to coordinate a Gaza pullout with a new Palestinian government.
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ISRAELI Prime Minister Ariel Sharon was last night negotiating with the Labour Party and ultra-religious groups in a make-or-break bid to build a new coalition capable of ensuring a Gaza Strip pullout next year, after he dismissed the five ministers of
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Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon&#39;s Likud party has agreed to a possible alliance with the opposition Labour group. The vote averts a snap election and strengthens Mr Sharon&#39;s controversial Gaza withdrawal plan.
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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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The Israeli prime minister's Likud Party  reaches a deal with the opposition Labour Party to form a coalition.
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Israel's Prime Minister Ariel Sharon is to name opposition leader Shimon Peres as his deputy in a coalition deal.
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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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The two main political parties in Israel have hit a stumbling block in negotiations on forming a government of national unity. A deal was expected to be finalised yesterday between Ariel Sharon&#39;s Likud party and the opposition Labour party.
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Israel and the Palestinians ended a  nearly two-year freeze in high-level diplomatic contacts on  Wednesday and agreed to prepare for a first summit between  Prime Minister Ariel Sharon and President Mahmoud Abbas.
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Peres says his Labour partyâs main objective is to work with Sharon to achieve peace with Palestinians. ROME- Israeli Labour party leader Shimon Peres said he would work with Prime Minister Ariel Sharon
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Israel&#39;s Opposition Labour Party leader Shimon Peres has responded positively to an invitation by Prime Minister Ariel Sharon to form a unity government.
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The new government was formed over the weekend after Mr Tariceanu's centrist Justice and Truth Alliance party completed a coalition deal with two smaller parties.
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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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Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon, center, talks to Israeli Finance Minister Benjamin Netanuahu, right, and Foreign Minister Silvan Shalom during a session of the Knesset, Israel&#39;s parliament, in Jerusalem, Monday Oct 18, 2004.
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Prime Minister Ariel Sharon clinched  a coalition deal with a key Israeli religious party on  Wednesday that he said would allow him within days to form a  government capable of pushing through his Gaza withdrawal plan.
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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.