AP - President Hosni Mubarak, whose Arab country was the first to sign a peace treaty with Israel, warned Monday that the entire Middle East peace could collapse because of Israel's fighting in Lebanon.

AP - Developments Sunday in the Middle East fighting:

AFP - Australian police have stepped up patrols of Jewish and Islamic sites, fearing racial tensions over the conflict in the Middle East had triggered an attack on a synagogue overnight.

AFP - The Middle East crisis dominated the first full day of Prime Minister Tony Blair's tour of California, forcing his promotion of British business interests here to take a back seat.

AFP - British Prime Minister Tony Blair is facing a possible cabinet revolt after his former foreign secretary Jack Straw broke ranks to attack Israel's "disproportiona­te" assault on Hezbollah.

AFP - As Tony Blair engages in diplomacy abroad over the Middle East crisis, troubles are brewing at home over his alliance with Washington which even members of his own government find objectionable.

AP - Violent scuffles broke out between police and pro-Lebanon protesters who mobbed Australian Prime Minister John Howard's car Saturday demanding more government action to bring peace in the Middle East, a news agency reported.

AFP - US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice has departed Asia for the Middle East, wagering personal prestige on a bid to sign up Israel and Lebanon to a UN resolution aimed at sidelining Hezbollah.

AP - Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice will return to the Middle East this weekend to try working out an agreement for a multinational force aimed at bringing an end to the Israeli-Hezbollah fighting.

AFP - The aid charity Oxfam blasted talks on the Middle East crisis between US President George W. Bush and British Prime Minister Tony Blair as more "hand-wringing&­quot; in the face of a rising death toll.

AFP - The pacifist group "Stop the War" submitted a petition to British Prime Minister Tony Blair's office, demanding his government call for an immediate ceasefire in the Middle East.

AP - The five permanent members of the U.N. Security Council neared a deal Friday on a resolution that would give Iran until the end of August to suspend uranium enrichment or face the threat of economic and diplomatic sanctions.

AP - Many Arab leaders responded with quick condemnation when Hezbollah militants kidnapped two Israeli soldiers this month. Some of the harshest words were from Egypt and Saudi Arabia, Sunni Muslim-led U.S. allies that both said the Shiite militants' "adventures" risked destabilizing the Middle East.

AFP - British Prime Minister Tony Blair has arrived in the United States, where he is due to hold talks on the Middle East crisis with President George W. Bush.

AFP - British Prime Minister Tony Blair is seeking a United Nations Security Council resolution by next week to defuse the Middle East conflict.

AP - Developments Thursday about the Middle East fighting:

AFP - Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice is expected to resume her Middle East crisis mission, as the United States warned against a "fake peace" to end fighting between Israel and Hezbollah.

AP - Amid an intensifying clamor for an end to Israeli-Hezbollah fighting, Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice said Thursday she was "willing and ready" to return to the Mideast to work on a cease-fire.

Reuters - British Prime Minister Tony Blair faced growing pressure to distance himself from his ally the United States over the Middle East as he headed for talks with President Bush in Washington on Friday.

AP - Two weeks into the latest bout of blood and ruin in the Middle East, a question still reverberates from Jerusalem to Beirut and beyond: Why? Why did Hezbollah's guerrillas provoke an Israel already under pressure elsewhere? Why did Israel hit back a thousand-fold, risking condemnation and untold consequences?