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JERUSALEM (AP) — With a midnight deadline looming, Israel’s prime minister on Sunday called on West Bank settlers to “show restraint” following the end of a government-ordered construction slowdown. (more)

ATLANTA (AP) — Tiger Woods will be joining the U.S. Ryder Cup team on a charter flight to Wales. (more)

GAZA CITY, Gaza Strip (AP) — To relaunch Middle East peace talks on Thursday, the Israeli and Palestinian leaders and their American mediators quietly agreed to push aside the question of Hamas — the Islamic militant group that controls one of the two Palestinian territories and rejects negotiations. (more)

WASHINGTON (AP) — Seeking to broker a Mideast peace agreement that has eluded U.S. presidents for decades, the Obama administration is overseeing the first direct negotiations between Israel and the Palestinians in nearly two years. (more)

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Obama administration says it is near to securing an agreement between Israel and the Palestinians to resume direct peace talks and U.S. officials say an announcement could be imminent. (more)

WASHINGTON (AP) — The once smooth path for Senate ratification of a major nuclear arms control agreement with Russia is looking a little dicier. (more)

WASHINGTON (AP) — BP’s oil spill notoriety is reviving unwelcome attention from Congress on another issue: whether the oil company sought the release of convicted Lockerbie bomber Abdel Baset al-Megrahi to help get a $900 million exploration agreement with Libya off the ground. (more)

WASHINGTON (AP) — Eager to show unity to the world, President Barack Obama and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Tuesday dismissed talk of a rift as wildly unfounded, and Netanyahu pledged concrete, “very robust” steps to revive sluggish Mideast peace efforts with the Palestinians. (more)

MOSCOW (AP) — Some of the suspected spies arrested in the United States are Russian citizens, Russia’s Foreign Ministry acknowledged Tuesday, but it insisted they did nothing to hurt U.S. interests. (more)

TORONTO (AP) — President Barack Obama said Saturday his administration will launch talks with South Korea aimed at resolving remaining issues blocking the completion of a South Korea free trade agreement. (more)

PHILADELPHIA (AP) — In a series that has felt like a swap meet with the way the Flyers and Blackhawks have traded goals, Philadelphia found itself with some extra room to work with in the third period of Game 4. (more)

JERUSALEM (AP) — Israel and Egypt signaled a temporary easing of the Gaza Strip blockade Tuesday following harsh international condemnation of the deadly Israeli raid on an aid flotilla en route to the sealed-off Palestinian territory. (more)

JERUSALEM (AP) — Two days after talks with the Palestinians resumed, Israel says construction for Jews in disputed east Jerusalem will proceed on schedule. (more)

UNITED NATIONS (AP) — Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad and Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton engaged in a verbal nuclear exchange Monday on the U.N. stage, where nations gathered for a monthlong debate over the world’s ultimate weapons. (more)

GUJRAT, Pakista — A bitter dispute over limited water resources is fueling India-Pakistan tensions at a time when the South Asian neighbors are trying to rebuild trust and resume peace talks. (more)

PARIS (AP) — French President Nicolas Sarkozy on Tuesday praised the “essential role” the U.S. is playing in helping Haiti recover — scrambling to overcome comments by one of his ministers who compared Washington’s aid efforts to a new occupation of the impoverished nation. (more)

CONAKRY, Guinea (AP) — A top Guinean opposition leader says he has been chosen as prime minister of the West African nation that in one year has been rocked by a coup, a massacre and the attempted assassination of its military leader. (more)

SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — North and South Korea opened talks Tuesday on further developing their joint industrial complex in the North despite Pyongyang’s recent threat to break off all dialogue and negotiations, an official said. (more)

TOKYO (AP) — Japan and the U.S. marked the 50th anniversary of the signing of their security pact Tuesday even as a dispute over plans to move a U.S. Marine base on the southern island of Okinawa strains ties between the two major trading partners. (more)

SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — North Korean leader Kim Jong Il said his country must bolster its armed forces, state media reported Sunday, two days after his regime warned it was prepared to launch a war against South Korea if necessary. (more)