Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice on Tuesday won tempered Egyptian support in her quest to nudge Israelis and Palestinians closer together ahead of a Mideast peace conference to be held in November or December.

Text of report in English by Jordan Times newspape

JERUSALEM _ The foreign ministers of Egypt and Jordan, paying the first visit to Israel by envoys of the Arab League, formally presented an Arab peace plan Wednesday and urged an early resumption of negotiations on Palestinian statehood.

Iran's foreign minister walked out of a dinner of diplomats where he was seated directly across from Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice, ostensibly because a female violinist entertaining the gathering was dressed too revealingly.

Iran's foreign minister walked out of a dinner of diplomats where he was seated directly across from Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice, on the pretext that the female violinist entertaining the gathering was dressed too revealingly.