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7 - 13 May, 1998
Issue No.376
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Fated to fail
The Middle East peace summit in London appeared doomed even before it started. Khaled Dawoud reports from the British capital

Netanyahu threat
Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu warned yesterday he might reject an invitation to proposed Middle East talks in Washington if the Americans tried to dictate the scope of an Israeli troop withdrawal. --read on--  

Talking up the trade
Greater South-South cooperation and better terms for economic relations with the North are among G-15 hopes for next week's Cairo summit, writes Dina Ezzat

50 years of dispossession
As Israel and the West celebrated the 50th anniversary of "the Jewish State", Palestinians continued to till their ever shrinking, water starved land.
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