Abbas to swear in Palestinian emergency government
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RAMALLAH, West Bank  - Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas will swear in a new prime minister and emergency cabinet on Saturday, a top aide said, replacing the Hamas-led government he fired after the group's bloody takeover of the Gaza Strip.
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The United States plans to lift a ban on direct aid to the emergency government that Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas is forming following Hamas's takeover of the Gaza Strip, Washington's envoy said on Saturday.
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RAMALLAH, West Bank  -- Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas for the first time Thursday ordered his elite presidential guard to strike back against Hamas militants bent on besieging his Gaza City compound.
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RAMALLAH, West Bank  - Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas, maneuvering against his Hamas rivals, overruled constitutional curbs on his emergency government and named an ex-guerrilla chief for a key security post on Sunday.
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The Palestinian president swears in a new emergency government, excluding the Islamist movement, Hamas.
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Mahmoud Abbas's inauguration to  succeed Yasser Arafat on Saturday will be overshadowed by  Israel's decision to cut ties with the new Palestinian  president after a militant attack that killed six Israelis.
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RAMALLAH, West Bank -- Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas vowed yesterday 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  - New Palestinian President  Mahmoud Abbas ordered security forces Monday to prevent attacks  on Israel by militants defying his calls for calm.
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RAMALLAH, West Bank  - Western powers bolstered Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas's emergency government on Monday, vowing to end a 15-month-old embargo after he sacked ruling Hamas Islamists who seized the Gaza Strip.
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JERUSALEM -- Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas dissolved the Palestinian government yesterday and declared a state of emergency after rival Hamas forces took complete control of the Gaza Strip in what the Islamic movement called the territory's "liberation."
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RAMALLAH, West Bank  - Mahmoud Abbas was sworn in  as Palestinian president on Saturday, but his call for a  cease-fire was overshadowed by fresh violence in Gaza and  Israel's decision to cut ties over a deadly militant attack.
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The Palestinian president Mahmoud Abbas today ordered his presidential guard to strike back at Hamas as they tightened their grip on Gaza.
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Mahmoud Abbas's inauguration to succeed Yasser Arafat on Saturday will be overshadowed by Israel's decision to cut ties with the new Palestinian president after a militant attack that killed six Israelis.
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"We will work to secure all basic needs for our people in Gaza"  The emergency government that Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas installed after Islamic militants seized control of Gaza reaped its first windfall on Monday, with the European Union promising to restore hundreds of millions of dollars in crucial aid.The EU traditionally has been the Palestinian Authority's largest donor, and the reinstatement of aid, cut off after the Islamic Hamas movement took power 15 months ago, could signal the beginning of the end to a crippling international boycott. Read more
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Mahmoud Abbas was sworn in as Palestinian president on Saturday, but his call for a cease-fire was overshadowed as Israel killed eight Palestinians in Gaza and cut ties with him over a deadly militant attack.
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GAZA CITY: PLO leader Mahmud Abbas stepped up calls yesterday to end &quot;armed chaos&quot; engulfing the occupied territories, as the new Palestinian leadership readied the ground for presidential elections in January.
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JERUSALEM -- European leaders told the Palestinian president, Mahmoud Abbas, that a unity government must clearly recognize Israel, renounce violence, and accept interim peace deals in order for sanctions to end, Abbas aides said yesterday.