<?xml version="1.0" encoding="iso-8859-1" ?><rss version="2.0"><channel><title>washingtonpost.com - Latest Wires</title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/business/latestap?nav=rss_business/latestap</link><description>Latest Wires</description><language>en-us</language><ttl>15</ttl><image><title>washingtonpost.com</title><width>140</width><height>20</height><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com</link><url>http://media.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/hp/image/wp_web.gif</url></image><item><title><![CDATA[Nasdaq Makes Deal For Trading Network]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A9342-2005Apr22.html?nav=rss_business/latestap</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A9342-2005Apr22.html?nav=rss_business/latestap</guid><pubDate>Mon, 9 May 2005 0:04:39 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[The brewing stock market war heated up on Friday as Nasdaq announced it would buy Instinet Group Inc.'s electronic trading network for $934.5 million.]]></description><author> Ben White</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[U.S. Pressed to Revive Mideast Peace Process]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A60334-2004Jan6.html?nav=rss_business/latestap</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A60334-2004Jan6.html?nav=rss_business/latestap</guid><pubDate>Mon, 9 May 2005 0:04:39 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[With the Palestinian Authority on the verge of collapse, the United States is coming under growing pressure to revive the deadlocked the Middle East peace process -- or face the prospect that its partners will begin looking for alternatives, according to European and U.N. diplomats.]]></description><author> Robin Wright  and Colum Lynch</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Egypt Muzzles Calls for Democracy]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A57219-2004Jan5.html?nav=rss_business/latestap</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A57219-2004Jan5.html?nav=rss_business/latestap</guid><pubDate>Mon, 9 May 2005 0:04:39 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[Reformers contend that U.S. aid to the country-- nearly $2 billion per year over the past two decades -- has propped up an unpopular government, its army and police, and helped suppress democracy.]]></description><author> Glenn Frankel</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Post Interview With Secretary of State Colin Powell]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A52444-2004Jan3.html?nav=rss_business/latestap</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A52444-2004Jan3.html?nav=rss_business/latestap</guid><pubDate>Mon, 9 May 2005 0:04:39 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[<em> Following is an edited transcript of a Dec. 29 telephone interview with Secretary of State Colin L. Powell. The interview was conducted by Washington Post staff writer Robin Wright and transcribed by the State Department.</em>]]></description><author></author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Teen, 2 Others Killed in Nablus]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A52610-2004Jan3.html?nav=rss_business/latestap</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A52610-2004Jan3.html?nav=rss_business/latestap</guid><pubDate>Mon, 9 May 2005 0:04:39 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[A 15-year-old Palestinian boy standing on the roof of his uncle's shop on the edge of the West Bank city of Nablus was shot and killed by Israeli soldiers Saturday morning, according to members of his family.]]></description><author> Molly Moore</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[With Palestinian State, Deadlock at Deadline]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A43082-2003Dec30.html?nav=rss_business/latestap</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A43082-2003Dec30.html?nav=rss_business/latestap</guid><pubDate>Mon, 9 May 2005 0:04:39 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[If all had gone as President Bush planned, the Middle East would today witness the birth of the provisional state of Palestine. But in a stark symbol of moribund U.S. diplomacy, Wednesday's deadline for the new state will pass largely unnoticed.]]></description><author> Robin Wright</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Israeli Troops Kill Teen, Hurt 17 in Clashes]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A34990-2003Dec27.html?nav=rss_business/latestap</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A34990-2003Dec27.html?nav=rss_business/latestap</guid><pubDate>Mon, 9 May 2005 0:04:39 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[Soldiers raided the West Bank city of Nablus in the largest show of Israeli force in the city in nearly a year, Palestinian security officials said.]]></description><author> Molly Moore</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Eleven Killed in Mideast Violence]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A29986-2003Dec25.html?nav=rss_business/latestap</link><guid 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birthplace of Jesus.]]></description><author> Molly Moore</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Israeli Raid Kills 8 Palestinians in Gaza]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A25936-2003Dec23.html?nav=rss_business/latestap</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A25936-2003Dec23.html?nav=rss_business/latestap</guid><pubDate>Mon, 9 May 2005 0:04:39 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[At least eight Palestinians were killed and more than 30 people injured Tuesday in intense fighting that broke out when Israeli troops entered a refugee camp in the southern Gaza Strip to locate cross-border tunnels.]]></description><author> John Ward Anderson</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Eight Palestinians Killed in Gaza Raid]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A23839-2003Dec23.html?nav=rss_business/latestap</link><guid 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responsibility for the 1988 bombing of Pan Am Flight 103 over Lockerbie, Scotland.]]></description><author></author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Elite Israeli Troops Refuse To Serve in the Territories]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A20118-2003Dec21.html?nav=rss_business/latestap</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A20118-2003Dec21.html?nav=rss_business/latestap</guid><pubDate>Mon, 9 May 2005 0:04:39 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[Thirteen reservists from Israel's elite military commando unit stated Sunday in a letter to the prime minister that they would no longer serve in the occupied territories, joining other influential security officials who have recently criticized Israeli military tactics and treatment of the Palestinians.]]></description><author> Molly Moore</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sharon Threat Seen as Major Problem]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A16526-2003Dec19.html?nav=rss_business/latestap</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A16526-2003Dec19.html?nav=rss_business/latestap</guid><pubDate>Mon, 9 May 2005 0:04:39 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon's threat to end negotiations with the Palestinians and unilaterally declare new borders poses a new and significant challenge to U.S. diplomacy in the region, administration officials and analysts said Friday.]]></description><author> Glenn Kessler</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sharon Threatens to Redraw Borders]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A13478-2003Dec18.html?nav=rss_business/latestap</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A13478-2003Dec18.html?nav=rss_business/latestap</guid><pubDate>Mon, 9 May 2005 0:04:39 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[Prime Minister Ariel Sharon said Thursday night that Israel would end negotiations with the Palestinians "in a few months" and unilaterally declare new borders  if the Palestinian government  did not immediately  act to halt terrorism.]]></description><author> John Ward Anderson  and Molly Moore</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[U.S. Urges Israel to Ease Burdens]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A61029-2003Dec12.html?nav=rss_business/latestap</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A61029-2003Dec12.html?nav=rss_business/latestap</guid><pubDate>Mon, 9 May 2005 0:04:39 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[Secretary of State Colin L. Powell urged the Israeli government to do more to alleviate Palestinian hardship Friday, the day after a State Department official criticized the Israelis in direct terms.]]></description><author> Peter Slevin</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Israelis Kill 6 Palestinians in Gaza]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A56746-2003Dec11.html?nav=rss_business/latestap</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A56746-2003Dec11.html?nav=rss_business/latestap</guid><pubDate>Mon, 9 May 2005 0:04:39 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[Six Palestinians were killed and about 20 were injured Thursday in the southern Gaza Strip when Israeli soldiers arrested a senior Palestinian militant and fierce gun battles erupted in the neighborhood surrounding his home, Israeli and Palestinian security officials said.]]></description><author> John Ward Anderson</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Israel Cultivates a New Breed of Tourist]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A54491-2003Dec10.html?nav=rss_business/latestap</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A54491-2003Dec10.html?nav=rss_business/latestap</guid><pubDate>Mon, 9 May 2005 0:04:39 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[Devastated by war and suicide bombings, Israel's once-burgeoning tourism industry is changing tactics, marketing counterterrorism and solidarity as reasons to visit the Jewish state.]]></description><author> Molly Moore</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[U.N. to Ask International Court to Rule on Israeli Barrier]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A47358-2003Dec8.html?nav=rss_business/latestap</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A47358-2003Dec8.html?nav=rss_business/latestap</guid><pubDate>Mon, 9 May 2005 0:04:39 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[The U.N. General Assembly approved a Palestinian-backed resolution Monday calling on the International Court of Justice to issue a legal opinion on the security barrier that Israel is building in the Palestinian territories.]]></description><author> Colum Lynch</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Powell Meets Drafters Of Mideast Proposal]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A40011-2003Dec5.html?nav=rss_business/latestap</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A40011-2003Dec5.html?nav=rss_business/latestap</guid><pubDate>Mon, 9 May 2005 0:04:39 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[Brushing aside complaints by Israel, Secretary of State Colin L. Powell met with the negotiators of an unofficial peace plan Friday but suggested their initiative was unlikely to be used by the administration to help jump-start the stalled peace process.]]></description><author> Glenn Kessler</author></item></channel></rss>