Abbas to urge Hamas to accept early elections
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Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas is expected on Monday to urge Hamas Islamists to agree to early elections, cede control of the Gaza Strip and hold talks with his Fatah faction, a Palestinian official said.
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RAMALLAH, West Bank  - Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas vowed on Monday to press on with early elections as a truce between his security forces and the Hamas government appeared close to collapse in the Gaza Strip.
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RAMALLAH, West Bank  - President Mahmoud Abbas called on Saturday for Palestinian elections, throwing down the gauntlet to his Hamas rivals after days of factional violence that has sparked fears of civil war.
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RAMALLAH, West Bank  - President Mahmoud Abbas called on Saturday for Palestinian elections, throwing down the gauntlet to his Hamas rivals after days of factional violence that have sparked fears of civil war.
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The governing Palestinian movement Hamas says it will boycott early elections called by President Abbas.
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Palestinian president Mahmud Abbas on Friday called on Socialist leaders gathered in Geneva to support his attempts to isolate the Islamist Hamas movement, which has taken control of the Gaza Strip.
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RAMALLAH, West Bank  - Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas vowed on Monday to press on with early elections as a truce between his security forces and the Hamas government began to unravel in the Gaza Strip.
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The interim Palestinian leader promised to set a date for internal elections in the ruling Fatah movement, a Cabinet minister said Friday, in an apparent attempt to persuade the head of Fatah&#39;s restless young guard to drop out
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Prime Minister Tony Blair urged foreign powers to back Palestinian president Mahmud Abbas's call for early elections to break the political stalemate and factional violence in the Palestinian territories.
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President Abbas called Saturday for early elections. Hamas says it won't participate.
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British Prime Minister Tony Blair urged foreign powers to back Palestinian president Mahmud Abbas's call for early elections to break the political stalemate and factional violence in the Palestinian territories.
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RAMALLAH, West Bank  - Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas may call early elections on Saturday in a much anticipated speech after violence between his Fatah group and the ruling Hamas movement stirred fears of civil war.
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BEIJING, Dec. 30 -- Interim Palestinian leader Mahmoud Abbas has addressed an election rally of thousands in the West Bank town of Tulkarem, ahead of January 9th&#39;s presidential election.
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RAMALLAH, West Bank, Dec. 16 -- Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas announced Saturday that he has decided to call early elections, including for his own office, to end a political crisis in the Palestinian territories that has brought a surge in deadly factional violence over the past...
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RAMALLAH, West Bank  - President Mahmoud Abbas called on Saturday for fresh Palestinian elections, throwing down the gauntlet to his Hamas rivals after days of factional violence that has sparked fears of civil war.
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Palestine Liberation Organization chairman Mahmoud Abbas says officials will take steps to end lawlessness and violence in the Palestinian territories ahead of scheduled January 9 elections for president.
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INTERIM Palestinian leader, Mahmoud Abbas, used his first official election campaign speech yesterday to demand the complete Israeli withdrawal of the West Bank, Gaza and east Jerusalem.