Politics

Ian Williams of Independent Television News reports from Israeli and Palestinian territories in the disputed Gaza Strip.

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Legal experts from the American Civil Liberties Union and NYU discuss the constitutionality of the campaign finance bill, which immediately met with legal challenges upon being signed into law.

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Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon said Tuesday conditions were "not yet ripe" for lifting a travel ban on Yasser Arafat, despite U.S. pressure to allow the Palestinian leader to travel to an Arab summit in Beirut.

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Margaret Warner talks to Serge Schmemann, a New York Times correspondent in Jerusalem, about Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat's announcement that he would not attend this week's Arab summit in Beirut.

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President Bush on Monday urged Israel to lift the travel ban placed on Yasser Arafat so the Palestinian leader could attend a summit of Arab leaders. The summit will focus on a Saudi-backed Mideast peace plan.

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After a background report, Ray Suarez and guests examine the president's policy priorities in Latin America.

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President Bush announced plans today to link an increase in aid to lesser-developed nations with social and economic reform efforts.

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The following is the full text of President Bush's speech at the United Nations Financing for Development Conference in Monterrey, Mexico.

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A Palestinian suicide bomber blew himself up in a main downtown shopping district in Jerusalem Thursday afternoon, killing at least three others and injuring at least 60 people, Israeli police said.

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Escalating separatist violence in India's Kashmir has killed at least 10 people and injured 22 others in explosions and gunfights over the past 24 hours.

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