The talks cover workers in 13 states: Arizona, Colorado, Idaho, Iowa, Minnesota, Nebraska, New Mexico, North Dakota, Oregon, South Dakota, Utah, Washington and Wyoming.
U.S. Steel said the talks covered employees at domestic flat-rolled and iron ore mining facilities as well as tubular operations in Lorain, Ohio, and Fairfield, Ala.
Israeli Army Radio said today's talks covered the transfer to the Palestinians of tax revenues that Israel has collected from Palestinians.
The talks cover a variety of topics, including sustainability issues and "Tasting Our Way to a Better Food System," a program at 2 25 p.m. led by Mitchell Davis, vice president of the James Beard Foundation.
A senior State Department official said the talks covered "the waterfront" -- from Washington's concerns about Russian abuses in its war against separatists in Chechnya to questions of press freedom in Russia.
Talks cover education, sustainability, well-being, food and design, but co-founder David Hieatt told me they may begin to explore more practical sessions, which could include both web design and, intriguingly, pigkeeping.
Meanwhile, representatives of Israel, various Palestinian factions and the European Union, as well as America's new peace envoy, George Mitchell, converged on Egypt's capital, Cairo, to hash out the terms of a more lasting peace.The talks covered not only the securing of a formal ceasefire and getting immediate humanitarian aid into the stricken territory, but a range of other tricky issues.
The talks covered little new ground.
The talks covered various economic issues, the statement said, without elaborating.
