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U.S. Vice President Joe Biden has told the Palestinians that they deserve a "viable" independent state with contiguous territory.

The United States says Israel and the Palestinians have agreed to indirect peace talks brokered by special U.S. Mideast envoy ...

Jewish settlers widened their protests on Sunday against a temporary construction freeze by shooting at a Palestinian home, torching and stoning vehicles, and assaulting Israeli officers in separate West Bank incidents.

The United States would veto a Palestinian declaration of statehood in the United Nations Security Council, U.S. senators visiting Israel said Monday.

Voter registration for a Palestinian election failed to get under way as scheduled on Tuesday, adding to signs that President Mahmoud Abbas might be bluffing about a make-or-break vote in January.

Those close to Mahmoud Abbas said that his stated intention to resign was not a bluff and that other Palestinian Authority leaders would follow him.

There were no bids by younger Palestinian leaders on Friday to step into the shoes of President Mahmoud Abbas, who says he does not want to run for re-election in January.

The Palestinian president says he doesn't want to run for re-election in the January balloting.

U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton met Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas on Saturday, launching a rapid series of meetings with Palestinian and Israeli officials to keep up pressure for a new Mideast peace deal.