Politics

Israeli troops exchanged gunfire with Arafat's security guards in the Ramallah complex, wounding 25 of the leader's bodyguards. Five Palestinians and one Israeli soldier were killed in the fighting, according to hospital officials.

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Kwame Holman looks into the impact of the new campaign finance law.

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Alon Pinkas, Israel's consul general in New York, discusses his country's military moves against the Palestinian Authority.

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Ray Suarez reports on the Israeli military offensive.

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Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat said Thursday he was willing to implement an unconditional cease-fire with Israel, a move that could pave the way toward a U.S.-brokered truce Palestinians rejected earlier in the week.

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Representatives from Arab countries approved a Saudi-backed Mideast peace plan Thursday, agreeing to offer Israel "normal relations" in exchange for an Israeli pullback from disputed territories.

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As Arab leaders debated a proposed Middle East peace plan today during a stormy summit in Lebanon, a deadly suicide bombing in Israel threatened to derail U.S.-backed Israeli-Palestinian cease-fire talks.

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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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