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As they continued quietly to mourn Yasir Arafat on Saturday, Palestinian officials turned their attention to finding a successor, vowing elections by Jan. 9 for a president with the authority […]

Palestinians said goodbye to their leader on Friday with a burial that completed a three-step cycle, making his final days a summary of his rule. First there was indecision as […]

Hours after the death of Yasir Arafat, the Palestinian leadership quickly filled its top posts on Thursday, trying to signal that the chaos and ambiguity that characterized his decades-long hold […]

Yasir Arafat, the Palestinian leader, died early Thursday morning in a Paris hospital, a French military spokesman announced. Mr. Arafat, who was the symbol of the Palestinian revolution and aspiration […]

The only overarching Palestinian leader he has ever known lay near death in Paris, but for the moment Khaled Khalaf had a more pressing concern. He wanted to go shutter […]

Democrats began turning Wednesday to the fight that some in the party fear they wage most consistently: with one another. Democratic politicians and operatives said the defeat of Senator John […]

Karen Maguire, a freelance editor, creates day-by-day calendars with tear-off pages of quotations on gentle subjects like 'spiritual moments.' In this turbulent autumn her passion has been the defeat of […]

Voters in this battleground of battlegrounds know they should feel lucky. The presidential candidates have seriously contested less than half of the nation. But for Stark County, a political bellwether, […]

Despite competition from two baseball playoff games, the third and final presidential debate, held Wednesday night in Tempe, drew more than 51 million viewers -- more than watched any of […]

For the third and final presidential debate, President Bush had his game face on, and his game face turned out to be a big smile. Having put a second term […]

After two debates in which the presidential candidates have clashed over Iraq and North Korea, drug prices and jobs, a central question remains unasked: why do these two guys dislike […]

There was a lot of love in the room on Friday night but the candidates for president directed none of it at each other. To each other, President Bush and […]

Let it be noted that Vice President Dick Cheney never actually used the word 'whippersnapper' on Tuesday night. And Senator John Edwards never said 'ogre.' But they may as well […]

President Bush's expression was sad and maybe a bit annoyed, and one hand was pressed firmly over his stomach. What concerned him about Senator John Kerry was that on Iraq […]

It is an axiom of the two presidential campaigns that their candidates offer a stark choice about America's role in the world. On Thursday night, voters will have their best […]

PRESIDENT BUSH told voters in Minnesota on Thursday that 'there's ongoing acts of violence' in Iraq but 'this country's headed toward democracy.' Senator John Kerry told the National Guard Association, […]

Such a lonely little island it seemed for most of the evening, that vacant preserve in the tumultuous sea of delegates. The singers kept well clear. Even George E. Pataki, […]

Only one president in the 20th century has really pulled it off. Accepting their second nomination for the job, presidents tend to do little more than the obvious, if only […]

Some say the cause is the vast echoing hall, or the brutal lighting, or the tipsy sleepless nights in New York City. But as the delegates to the Republican National […]

The quadrennial Bush family reunion known as the Republican National Convention is on again, and my how they've grown. It seems like just yesterday that skinny George P. Bush, at […]

Former President George Bush fanned doubts yesterday about Senator John Kerry's service in Vietnam, sustaining a decades-old debate that has dominated the presidential campaign in the last few weeks. In […]

Some of the women wore smart suits. Many modestly covered their hair. Only one wore the most conservative Islamic dress, cloaking herself head to toe in black. Members of the […]

Sitting in his office beneath two signs deploring smoking, Salahaldin Mousa listens all day as his fellow citizens interrupt his paperwork to complain about their utility bills or to demand […]

Prime Minister Ariel Sharon coaxed Israel on Sunday toward evacuating some settlements next year, winning approval from his right-wing coalition government to begin preparing for what he calls 'disengagement' from […]

Prime Minister Ariel Sharon struggled Thursday to advance his plan to evacuate some Israeli settlements without a peace agreement with the Palestinians, proposing that the cabinet vote on emptying just […]

Israel's attorney general has decided against indicting Prime Minister Ariel Sharon on charges of accepting bribes from a real estate developer, Israeli television stations reported Monday night. A spokesman for […]

Israel's justice minister, a Holocaust survivor, started a political uproar on Sunday when he attacked an Israeli plan to demolish Palestinian homes in Gaza and said that a suffering Palestinian […]

Israeli forces have poured into the Gaza Strip this week partly because Prime Minister Ariel Sharon and most Israelis want to pull out of the Gaza Strip. But no one […]

Set in fields of white, pink and red carnations, the giant cooler here, which usually holds vegetables or flowers for sale to an Israeli company, has been turned over to […]

Israel pressed its campaign against the Palestinian uprising on two fronts Thursday, broadening an offensive into the southern Gaza Strip while, in Tel Aviv, an Israeli court convicted a Palestinian […]

As a throng of Palestinians marched in protest here, an Israeli tank and helicopter gunship opened fire on Wednesday, leaving several people dead, including children, and dozens wounded, Palestinian witnesses […]

With armored bulldozers, tanks and helicopter gunships, Israeli troops seized control of Palestinian neighborhoods in the southern Gaza Strip on Tuesday, killing at least 19 people, many of them gunmen, […]

Israeli armored bulldozers reinforced by helicopter gunships advanced early Tuesday into the Rafah refugee camp in the southern Gaza Strip after Israeli troops sealed the camp off for what the […]

Despite international criticism, Israeli officials said Sunday that they intended to proceed with a plan to widen an Israeli-patrolled lane along the Gaza Strip's border with Egypt by demolishing as […]

Israelis and Palestinians clashed in the Gaza Strip in a grisly contest over soldiers' remains, after two Israeli armored vehicles were blown apart in separate incidents. Palestinian militants made off […]

In 1982, hundreds of thousands of Israelis turned out in Tel Aviv to demonstrate against the conduct of Israel's war in Lebanon by the defense minister at the time, Ariel […]

Israel will substantially widen an army-patrolled zone at the southern end of the Gaza Strip near the border with Egypt, a step that will involve demolishing many Palestinian buildings, a […]

For the second time in two days, Palestinian militants destroyed an Israeli armored vehicle in the Gaza Strip on Wednesday, killing five soldiers, then confronted troops who stormed after the […]

Israeli troops conducted a grim house-to-house search for their comrades' remains here Tuesday night after Palestinian militants blew up an Israeli troop carrier and then said they had made off […]

The Palestinian Authority said Monday that it would begin holding its first municipal elections late this summer, in a bid to stem public anger over corruption and mismanagement. Under the […]

Mordechai Vanunu, the Israeli nuclear technician imprisoned for 18 years for revealing Israel's nuclear capacity, told security officials in a recent interview that Israel's nuclear reactor should be destroyed, according […]

Israel will invest tens of millions of dollars in West Bank settlements as it withdraws from the Gaza Strip, the Israeli finance minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, said Monday. Also on Monday, […]

As Palestinians massed in Gaza City to vent rage at Israel over its killing of a top militant leader on Saturday night, Prime Minister Ariel Sharon picked up crucial support […]