AFP - The United States and Iran have been conducting secret back-channel discussions on Tehran's nuclear program and frozen relations between the two countries, The Independent reported Monday.
AP - Former President Jimmy Carter brokered the first Israeli-Arab peace deal, but he's getting a cool reception in Israel during his latest visit to the Mideast.
AP - With al-Qaida's influence diminishing in Iraq, U.S. troops have much work to do in stemming Iranian support for militias, President Bush's national security adviser said Sunday.
Reuters - Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas
held a hastily arranged meeting with Israeli Prime Minister
Ehud Olmert in Jerusalem on Sunday ahead of a tour that will
take him to Moscow and Washington.
AP - The Israeli and Palestinian leaders got together for surprise talks Sunday, just days before Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas sets off for Washington to meet with President Bush.
AP - A top Iranian official on Sunday abruptly canceled a meeting with the head of the International Atomic Energy Agency, dealing a blow to the U.N. monitor's efforts to investigate allegations that Iran tried to make nuclear arms, an agency official said.
Reuters - A meeting between a senior Iranian
nuclear official and the head of the U.N. atomic energy agency
has been postponed, Iran's official IRNA news agency and the
U.N. agency said on Sunday.
AFP - Israeli Foreign Minister Tzipi Livni attended a forum on democracy in Qatar Sunday on a rare visit to the Gulf that sparked boycotts by other guests, and her hosts said they would discuss with her ending the violence in the Gaza Strip.
AFP - The chances of the United States "stumbling" into a confrontation with Iran through skirmishes in Iraq "are very low," Defense Secretary Robert Gates said Sunday.
AP - Iranian officials raised the death toll from an explosion in a packed mosque in southern Iran to 12 on Sunday and said more than 200 had been injured in the blast.