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Progress Seen in Israeli-Palestinian Peace Talks
[AFP] Israeli and Palestinian negotiators have made "considerable" headway in their talks aimed at inking a peace deal by the end of the year, a senior Israeli official said on Monday. Chief Israeli negotiator Foreign Minister Tzipi Livni and her Palestinian counterpart former prime minister Ahmed Qurei "have made considerable progress" in a series of meetings they have held in recent weeks, the official told AFP. Work teams from both sides tasked with discussing the technical details of a future peace deal - such as water, economic ties and environmental questions - have met several times. The official also said that Livni and Qurei are discussing the thorniest issues of the peace talks, namely refugees and the future status of Jerusalem.