Jerusalem - Israeli police questioned Prime Minister Ehud Olmert for a fourth time Friday on two alleged corruption affairs in which he is suspected of being implicated.
The questioning lasted for 45 minutes minutes longer than the scheduled two hours, Israel Radio reported, and the premier was confronted with documents relating to charges he double-, and even triple-, billed sponsors for overseas visits, and used the extra money to pay for trips for his family.
Jerusalem - Israel's anti-corruption unit has said Prime Minister Ehud Olmert's announcement that he will step down in September will not affect the ongoing corruption probe against him, Israeli media reported Thursday.
Police detectives probing a string of corruption allegations against Olmert are due to question him again on Friday over some of them.
"The investigation continues as normal. Detectives will question Olmert on Friday at his residence irrespective," a spokeswoman for the National Fraud Unit was quoted as saying in the Jerusalem Post daily.
Jerusalem - German public broadcaster ARD on Wednesday closed its office in the Gaza Strip in protest against the detention of one of its cameramen by Hamas five days earlier, while Israel's Foreign Press Association again called for his release.
Sawaf Abu Saif was arrested in a crackdown by the radical Islamic Palestinian movement on its rivals, including the moderate Fatah party of President Mahmoud Abbas.
Jerusalem - Israel's Foreign Minister Tzipi Livni is to travel to Washington Tuesday night for another round of peace negotiations with Palestinians under the auspices of US officials scheduled for Wednesday, the Israeli Foreign Ministry said.
Former Palestinian premier Ahmed Qureia would represent the Palestinian side in the three-way talks with Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice, US Vice-President Dick Cheney and national security advisor Stephen Hadley.
Jerusalem - Israel's President Shimon Peres and Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas met for talks Tuesday on strengthening the peace process and the situation in the region.
Abbas became the first Palestinian president ever to be allowed into the presidential residence - Beit Hanasi - in Jerusalem for a meeting described by the daily Yediot Ahronot as "historic."
Jerusalem - The key witness in the corruption case against Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert appeared in court again Wednesday for a fifth day of cross-examination by the premier's legal team over allegations he made in May that Olmert over years accepted tens of thousands of dollars in cash from him.
The 75-year-old Jewish American businessman and fundraiser Morris Talansky sighed as he entered the Jerusalem District Court to face more tough questions from lawyers who are keen to discredit him.
Jerusalem - Israeli police questioned Prime Minister Ehud Olmert for a fourth time Friday on two alleged corruption affairs in which he is suspected of being implicated.
- Israel's anti-corruption unit has said Prime Minister Ehud Olmert's announcement that he will step down in September will not affect the ongoing corruption probe against him, Israeli media reported Thursday. 
Jerusalem - German public broadcaster ARD on Wednesday closed its office in the Gaza Strip in protest against the detention of one of its cameramen by Hamas five days earlier, while Israel's Foreign Press Association again called for his release.
Jerusalem - Israel's Foreign Minister Tzipi Livni is to travel to Washington Tuesday night for another round of peace negotiations with Palestinians under the auspices of US officials scheduled for Wednesday, the Israeli Foreign Ministry said.
Jerusalem - Israel's President Shimon Peres and Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas met for talks Tuesday on strengthening the peace process and the situation in the region.
