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06.4.2008 00:46 Haaretz Service and DPA Hezbollah: IDF drill borne of frustration and despair Israel, Fuad Siniora, Hezbollah, Lebanon 05.4.2008 22:53 DPA Hezbollah: We will watch IDF border drill closely lebanon, israel, hezbollah, IDF 05.4.2008 19:28 Haaretz Service Min. Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert met with Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas for the first time in six weeks on Monday, spending three hours together in an effort to restart Mideast peace talks. Talks between the two leaders had been sidelined since late February after an Israeli military offensive in the Gaza Strip that left more than 120 people dead. After Monday's gathering, an Israeli government spokesman said Abbas raised humanitarian concerns, the issue of continued expansion of Jewish settlements in the West Bank and plans by Israel to build in East Jerusalem neighbourhoods. The spokesman said Olmert brought up security concerns and the need for Palestinians to stop militants firing rockets into southern Israel from Gaza. At the same time, Hamas militants have fired dozens of rockets into southern Israel from Gaza, which the group seized control of last June after routing Abbas's Fatah forces there.
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Mugabe's party calls for Zimbabwe vote recount - (World, 31 articles)
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Police said the election officials have been charged with fraud and criminal abuse of duty, accused of taking nearly 5,000 votes away from Mr Mugabe. Zimbabwe's High Court ruled on Tuesday it would treat the opposition's application for the immediate release of presidential election results urgently and began hearing arguments in the case. With state-sponsored violence intensifying in the wake of last month's elections, Morgan Tsvangirai flew to South Africa for talks with senior officials to seek their support.
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Investors Await 1Q Earnings, Home Sales (Finance, 9 articles)
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Alcoa Inc. unofficially opened the first-quarter earnings season by reporting profits sank by more than half as higher costs and a slumping U.S. dollar weighed down results, but executives said the company's future is bright NEW YORK - Wall Street started the week with a narrowly mixed performance Monday, with many investors moving to the sidelines as they wait for quarterly profit reports. With metal prices slipping, shares of mining and other natural resource companies appeared set to decline, while AMD's news was likely to weigh on technology shares.
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New York Post (U.S., 10 articles)
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ALBANY - Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg s far-reaching plan to ease traffic in Manhattan died here on Monday in a closed conference room on the third floor of the Capitol. Democratic members of the State Assembly held one final meeting to debate the merits of Mr. Bloomberg's plan and found overwhelming and persistent opposition. Speaker Sheldon Silver said yesterday there will be no decision on whether to vote on the proposal until Monday - the drop-dead date for Mayor Bloomberg's controversial initiative to charge drivers $8 to enter Manhattan below 60th Street.
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Bush to Meet Putin in Russia (World, 10 articles)
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" Our fundamental attitude toward the American plan has not changed Putin said at a news conference with Bush at his vacation house at this Black Sea resort. Despite the impasse, the two leaders agreed that Moscow and Washington would work together closely in the future on missile defense and other difficult issues. Russia continued to object to the central architecture of the system, which calls for installing radar in the Czech Republic linked to missile interceptors based in Poland.
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