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Israel has accepted in principle a proposal by CIA chief George Tenet for a cease-fire in the Middle East.

U.S.-coalition aircraft fired precision-guided weapons on an anti-aircraft artillery site in southern Iraq's no-fly zone Tuesday, in response to recent Iraqi hostile acts, the United States Central Command (USCENTCOM) said in a written statement.

Screams, blood and panic filled the air outside a popular Israeli discotheque after a suicide bomber, who had been mingling with the crowd of young people waiting to get inside, detonated his explosives.

The deadliest incident in eight months of violence between Israelis and Palestinians -- a suicide bombing that killed 20 Israelis -- strained the contentious balance between the adversaries nearly to the breaking point over the weekend.

Former U.S. Mideast Envoy Dennis Ross joined CNN's Carol Lin Wednesday morning to discuss the latest developments in the Mideast peace process.

Details of the Tenet plan, according to diplomats familiar with the proposal.

Talks on how to implement a U.S.-brokered truce agreement between Palestinians and Israelis continued over the weekend against a backdrop of violence in the region.

An explosion on a beach in Tel Aviv late Friday has injured 28 people, according to Israeli radio. Hospital sources said there were fatalities, as well.

An explosion on a beach in Tel Aviv late Friday killed 15 people and injured 35, at least six of them seriously, according to Israeli radio.

The families of four Britons facing flogging for illegal liquor trading in Saudi Arabia are placing their hopes on behind-the-scenes diplomacy.

The tentative cease-fire brokered last week held Sunday despite new incidents of violence and bickering within the Israeli Cabinet over how to proceed on any truce with the Palestinians.

A fragile Mideast cease-fire, brokered last week, holds despite fresh incidents of violence, including the deaths of two Palestinian boys, aged 12 and 11, in separate shooting incidents.

German Foreign Minister Joschka Fischer led a chorus of international outrage at the latest Mideast violence.

A cease-fire called by the Palestinian groups Hamas and Fatah began Tuesday, but came with the promise of renewed attacks if Israel does not observe one as well.

Faisal Husseini was born in Baghdad, Iraq, on July 17, 1940, his prominent Palestinian family having been forced into exile by its resistance to British rule over Palestine.

Hundreds of people lined the streets of East Jerusalem to pay their respects to senior Palestinian official Faisal Husseini.

A five-month-old baby, critically wounded when his parent's car was stoned last Tuesday in the West Bank north of Ramallah, has died.

Iranian President Mohammad Khatami was holding an overwhelming lead in his re-election bid, according to preliminary election results released Saturday.

Voters go to the polls in Iran on Friday with all indications Mohammad Khatami will win re-election by another landslide.

Supporters of President Mohammad Khatami honked car horns and hung banners on the final day of Iran's election campaign.

Iraqi officials are commending Russia's rejection of a U.S.-backed British proposal on Iraqi sanctions being discussed at the U.N.

Iraq has carried out its threat of halting most oil exports in retaliation for a change in the United Nation's oil-for-food programme.

Iraq said on Tuesday that U.S.-led coalition aircraft had struck at ''our civilian and service centers in the province of Basra,'' killing three Iraqis -- an accusation denied by the United States.

Previously unpublished U.N. weapons inspections reports reveal Iraq imported defence supplies despite U.N. sanctions prohibiting the country's armament, says the Associated Press News Agency.

Iraq is maintaining illicit oil sales to Syria to secure vital hard currency despite Baghdad's vow to cut off most exports in its latest showdown with the United Nations over sanctions, industry sources said Monday.

Iraq remained defiant hours before it began to implement its threat to halt all crude oil exports from Monday in protests against proposed changes to U.N. sanctions.

Iraq's vice president has praised Russia's rejection of an American-British sanctions proposal before the United Nations.

Iraq rejects proposed changes to new sanctions

The United States has made significant progress in pushing forward a proposal on Iraqi sanctions, securing at least partial support from four of the five permanent United Nations Security Council members, a senior State Department official told CNN on Friday.

Iraq says it will stop exporting oil from its Persian Gulf and Mediterranean terminals on Monday.

Israel said Tuesday it had accepted in principle a proposal by CIA chief George Tenet for a cease-fire in the Middle East.

Israel has accepted in principle a proposal by CIA chief George Tenet for a cease-fire in the Middle East.

Angry and mournful, Israelis on Sunday began burying teen-agers killed in a suicide bomb attack on a nightclub.

Israel has said it will ease restrictions on Palestinian territories due to a decline in the number of attacks in recent days.

Israeli police said gunmen on Monday night killed an Israeli, and Palestinian authorities Monday night reported the death of a second Palestinian youth from a clash with Israelis a day earlier.

The Israeli Cabinet is to consider whether to end a ceasefire after a suicide bomber killed 18 people in Tel Aviv.

Israeli Defense Minister Binyamin Ben-Eleizer said Wednesday he has instructed the Israel Defense Forces to implement the Tenet truce plan over the coming week.

Both sides in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict have accepted a blueprint for a cease-fire from CIA Director George Tenet, U.S. sources told CNN Wednesday.

Israel and the Palestinians have agreed to a timetable for resuming peace talks that includes a six-week cooling-off period, U.S. Secretary of State Colin Powell said Thursday.

Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon will meet Sunday morning with his advisers and is expected to discuss Palestinian Authority President Yasser Arafat's order to his security forces to implement an immediate cease-fire.

Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon will meet Sunday morning with his advisers and is expected to discuss Palestinian Authority President Yasser Arafat's order to his security forces to implement an immediate cease-fire.

As Palestinians and Israelis watched each other on Thursday for signs that their truce was being implemented, at least three more people were killed in new violence.

Jewish settlers are calling on the Israeli prime minister to retaliate after another settler was shot dead.

Palestinians who want to visit Jordan now must first get an entry permit.

Iranian voters appear to have handed reform-minded Iranian President Mohammad Khatami a resounding victory in his bid for a second term, dealing a rebuke to conservative hardliners who have dominated the country since the 1979 Islamic revolution.

Iranian president Mohammad Khatami has said there will be no change in his country's policies towards the U.S. unless Washington moves first.

Voters in Iran are going to the polls in what is effectively a referendum on president Mohammad Khatami's reform plans.

Despite further violence, diplomatic efforts to get the Middle East peace process back on track intensified over the weekend.

Sporadic cases of violence have broken out in the Mideast, but the emphasis has been on diplomatic efforts to uphold a cease-fire.

More shootings in the Middle East have prompted Israel to re-impose a blockade of Palestinians in the West Bank.