Salam Fayyad - Palestinian prime minister Salam Fayyad speaks as British Prime Minister Gordon Brown (unseen) listens on during a UK-Palestine Business Meeting which brought together top British business chiefs in the occupied West Bank town of Bethlehem on July 20 2008. Brown insisted today that increased economic investment in the Palestinian territories would be rewarded with the prize of peace in the Middle East. (UPI Photo/Musa Al-Shaer/Pool)
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British PM Gordon Brown visits the Church of the Nativity in Bethlehem
Palestinian prime minister Salam Fayyad speaks as British Prime Minister Gordon Brown (unseen) listens on during a UK-Palestine Business Meeting which brought together top British business chiefs in the occupied West Bank town of Bethlehem on July 20 2008. Brown insisted today that increased economic investment in the Palestinian territories would be rewarded with the prize of peace in the Middle East.
HEBRON, West Bank, Sept. 17 (UPI) -- The Palestinian Authority is asking Israel for permission to take military control of the West Bank city of Hebron to thwart moves by Hamas, sources say.
BRUSSELS, July 17 (UPI) -- Heavy Israeli security and the Palestinian Authority's deficient policies have stalled the peace process, a new report from the International Crisis Group says.
BERLIN, June 25 (UPI) -- A high-ranking Berlin conference on Middle East security kicked off with eclat and ended with a pledge for $242 million in aid money for the Palestinian authorities.
RAMALLAH, West Bank, June 5 (UPI) -- Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas urged talks resume with Hamas, a move observers say could portend a breakdown of talks with Israel.
JERUSALEM, March 23 (UPI) -- Israel reportedly is considering easing some restrictions on Palestinians ahead of a visit by U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice.
WASHINGTON, March 10 (UPI) -- U.S. Vice President Dick Cheney will visit Turkey and several Middle Eastern countries to discuss "issues of mutual interest," Cheney's office said Monday.
JERUSALEM, Feb. 20 (UPI) -- Israeli politicians who want to abandon negotiations with the Palestinian Authority are unrealistic, Israel's foreign minister said Tuesday.
BRUSSELS, Jan. 28 (UPI) -- The European Commission announced the launch of a socio-economic aid package channeling international funds to the building of a Palestinian state.
MOSCOW, Dec. 21 (UPI) -- The aid pledged to Palestinians by donor nations in Paris this week puts the international community's money where its mouth was in Annapolis. But the status of Gaza is a big stumbling block to any solution.
JERUSALEM, Dec. 19 (UPI) -- Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert said it's becoming better known that there is a war going on in the Gaza Strip with Palestinian militants.