Blair has limits as Mideast envoy
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Tony Blair couldn't ask for a better starting point as the new Mideast peace envoy.
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Tony Blair is pushing for a broader mandate in the Middle East that would give him a more direct role in peacemaking, expanding the limited envoy job that world powers gave him last month, diplomats said on Tuesday.
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RAMALLAH, West Bank  - Tony Blair said on Tuesday there was a new "moment of opportunity" in the Middle East but cautioned in his first visit as an international envoy against expecting any peace breakthrough soon.
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Tony Blair makes his maiden voyage to the Middle East as special envoy for the peace Quartet this week amid a flurry of   diplomatic activity aimed at reviving the moribund peace process.
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Tony Blair begins his first visit to the region as Middle East envoy on Monday, hoping he can help turn around 60 years of peacemaking failures since Britain ended its mandate over Palestine.
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Tony Blair continues his first Mid-East visit as the Quartet's special envoy by meeting Israeli and Palestinian leaders.
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The United States showed little inclination Friday to see British ex-prime minister Tony Blair hold talks with the radical Palestinian movement Hamas as part of his mission as a peace envoy.
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British Prime Minister Tony Blair is attempting to win back political support by recalibrating his policy in the Middle East, but it is likely to prove too late to save his job.
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Palestinian Prime Minister Ismail Haniyeh has limited his public appearances because he fears being targeted for assassination by Israel, his spokesman said Tuesday.
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Tony Blair should be given a broader role as Middle East envoy, say Palestinian negotiators.
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Leaders of the Middle East Quartet meet former British prime minister Tony Blair here Thursday, with the focus on his role as their new special envoy against a backdrop of a renewed US push for peace.
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Leaders of the Middle East Quartet were to meet former prime minister Tony Blair Thursday, with the focus on his role as their new special envoy against a backdrop of a renewed US push for peace.
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British Prime Minister Tony Blair's Middle East peace quest was severely jolted yesterday when his counterpart in the West Bank took umbrage at suggestions that the Palestinians needed to be groomed for ...
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Former British Prime Minister Tony Blair makes his first appearance as Mideast envoy Thursday, with international diplomats gathering to discuss ways to breath life into long-stalled peace talks between Israel and the Palestinians.
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JERUSALEM -- British Prime Minister Tony Blair held talks Wednesday with Israeli and Palestinian leaders that were notable less for what was said and done than for sending a message of the West&#39;s desire to re-engage with the Middle East peace process.
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British Prime Minister Tony Blair is in Jerusalem for meetings with Israeli and Palestinian leaders. He&#39;s hoping to get both sides to participate in a Mideast conference in London.
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World powers named Tony Blair as  their Middle East peace envoy on Wednesday, handing the  outgoing British prime minister a daunting new challenge on a  day Israeli forces killed 12 Palestinians in the Gaza Strip.