Palestinian rivals hold crisis talks in Mecca
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MECCA, Saudi Arabia  - Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas began crisis talks with his Hamas rivals in Saudi Arabia on Wednesday, vowing to hammer out a deal on a unity government that could end an international blockade.
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Israeli and Palestinian leaders will meet Thursday to try to resolve a dispute over Israeli building in east Jerusalem that is paralyzing efforts to renew peace negotiations, officials said.
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Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert and Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas will hold crisis talks on Sunday on how to limit Hamas control over Gaza's breached border with Egypt.
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Rival Palestinian factions began a second full day of talks Thursday, focusing on the composition of a coalition Cabinet and what commitments the West would require to lift its financial boycott of a government involving the militant group Hamas.
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MECCA, Saudi Arabia  - Rival Palestinian factions agreed at crisis talks in Saudi Arabia on Thursday to give key cabinet posts to independents, overcoming one stumbling block to a unity government, officials said.
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The Israeli and Palestinian leaders hold talks in Jerusalem designed to bolster the Palestinian government.
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JERUSALEM, Dec. 17 â After a day of rallies and violent clashes in Gaza between supporters of Hamas and Fatah, with both sides trying to send messages of strength following a presidential order for early elections, leaders called for calm this evening.
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Palestinian mainstream Fatah movement factions are expected to hold meetings starting Sunday to discuss issues concerning the coming presidential elections.
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Mediation efforts are under way to defuse rising tension between rival Palestinian groups Hamas and Fatah.
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MECCA, Saudi Arabia  - Rival Palestinian factions have agreed to give key cabinet posts to independents at crisis talks in Saudi Arabia, overcoming a key stumbling block to a unity government, officials said on Thursday.
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Hamas and Fatah security officials traded fire at Gaza's border with Egypt on Tuesday as Prime Minister Ismail Haniyeh passed through on his way to reconciliation talks between his Hamas movement and the rival Fatah group in Saudi Arabia, witnesses said.
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Yasser Arafat continues to fight for his life as Palestinian leaders gather to discuss who might succeed him if he dies.
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Israeli and Palestinian officials on Wednesday held high-level political talks for the first time since Israel suspended contacts two weeks ago after saying that the new president of the Palestinian Authority, Mahmoud Abbas, was not doing enough to combat terrorism.
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The announcement came on the second day of talks between top leaders of Hamas and Fatah in Mecca.
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MECCA, Saudi Arabia Feb. 7 â Leaders of Hamas and Fatah, the two main Palestinian political factions, opened a Saudi-sponsored emergency meeting in Islamâs holiest city today with promises to compromise on a new government that could salvage the dormant Israel-Palestinian peace negotiations and end a wave of violence in Gaza and the West Bank in recent months.
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Meeting in Cairo fails to mend the divide between President Abbas and Hamas over Gaza border.
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MECCA, Saudi Arabia  - Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas and his Hamas rivals arrived in Saudi Arabia on Tuesday for talks to end faction fighting which an envoy said had created a "catastrophic" situation.