Palestinian government shuts 103 groups
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The moderate Palestinian government has ordered the closure of more than 100 institutions in the West Bank and Gaza, Prime Minister Salam Fayyad said Monday, in an apparent crackdown against the Islamic Hamas.
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Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas said Wednesday his agreement with the ruling Hamas militant group on forming a more moderate coalition government was off.
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RAMALLAH, West Bank -- Hamas boycotted the opening of the Palestinian parliament's new term yesterday, effectively allowing President Mahmoud Abbas to keep his moderate emergency Cabinet in power.
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China has shut down more than 100 websites for copyright violations since a new regulation came into effect in July, state media have said.
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The Hamas rulers of the Gaza Strip ordered the shutdown Monday of private clinics run by doctors loyal to the West Bank-based Fatah government, a new blow to a medical system already crippled by the Palestinian power struggle.
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Forces loyal to President Mahmoud Abbas overran a Hamas ministry and sealed off the area around his compound on Sunday as the threat of violence hung over Gaza following the president's call for new elections.
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RAMALLAH, West Bank -- The rival Hamas and Fatah parties froze talks yesterday on forming a Palestinian unity government, Fatah officials said. This was a new setback in efforts to form a more moderate coalition acceptable to the West.
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JERUSALEM Tens of thousands of Jewish settlers and their backers essentially shut down much of Jerusalem today. They took to the streets to protest a plan to evacuate settlements in Gaza and the West Bank.
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Israel's military has begun scaling back arrest raids aimed at Palestinian militants in the West Bank, security officials said Monday, in another move designed to help moderate Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas.
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In a fresh attempt to consolidate his rule over the West Bank after the loss of the Gaza Strip, Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas has ordered all armed groups, including those linked to his own Fatah movement, to disarm immediately.
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The top Palestinian security official said the government was dismantling militant groups, including those connected to President Mahmoud Abbasâs Fatah faction.
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RAMALLAH, West Bank  - The top Palestinian security official said on Saturday his government was dismantling militant groups, including those connected to President Mahmoud Abbas's Fatah faction.
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Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas on Wednesday called off a planned summit with Israeli Prim e Minister Ehud Olmert, seeking commitments Israel will free frozen Palestinian funds and take other steps.
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Several Palestinians are injured as security forces lose control of a crowd on the Gaza side of the border with Egypt.
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Six Palestinians died in renewed violence across the Gaza Strip and West Bank on Thursday, according to Palestinian officials, as a private group
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Palestinian officials have disbanded a Gaza security force feared by civilians and under fire by human rights groups in one of the first concrete steps toward security reform in months, says a security official.
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In the month since Hamas took over Gaza, the 1.5 million Palestinians there have become more cut off than ever.