Israeli settlement expansion will top the agenda, as U.S.envoy George Mitchell holds separate talks with Israeli and Palestinian leaders.

VOA: standard.2009.09.12

Mr.Obama's budget numbers and deficit projections assume a return to moderate economic growth next year, with robust expansion in the years that follow.

VOA: standard.2009.03.15

In remarks to reporters, German Defense Minister Franz Joseph Jung suggested that security would be beefed up with the recent deployment of a European Union Rule of Law Mission in Kosovo,or EULEX, and the expansion of Kosovo's own security force in the coming months.

VOA: standard.2009.06.11

A senior Middle East analyst with the International Crisis Group in Jerusalem,Rob Blecher, says frustration over continued expansion of Israeli settlements in the occupied West Bank and East Jerusalem, and the general lack of progress toward achieving a Palestinian state,has prompted the Palestinian leadership to look for new strategies.

VOA: standard.2010.05.03