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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Palestinian leaders appealed for calm, and the clashes were not as intense or as widespread as on Sunday.
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A daylong gunbattle between rival Palestinian factions raged in the streets of Gaza City Monday as Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas and Prime Minister Ismail Haniyeh again failed to agree on the formation of a unity government.
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Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas said on Saturday he was considering options open to him after the failure of talks with the governing Hamas faction over creating a unity government.
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Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas said on Saturday he was considering options open to him after the failure of talks with the governing Hamas faction over creating a unity government with the militant group.
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Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas and Prime Minister Ismail Haniyeh of Hamas were making a new push Wednesday to restore a cease-fire with Israel that had collapsed under a barrage of Hamas rocket fire
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The Palestinian president, Mahmoud Abbas, faces the collapse of Fatah power in Gaza and a putative Palestinian state divided between Fatah and Hamas.
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MECCA, Saudi Arabia  - Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas held crisis talks with Hamas in Saudi Arabia on Wednesday to end the violence between the rivals that has left 90 dead since December and forge a deal on a unity government.
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RAMALLAH, West Bank  - Israeli and Palestinian leaders will meet for another session of peace negotiations in Jerusalem on Tuesday but conflicting statements by both parties have clouded the state of progress in the talks.
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Israelis and Palestinians are to discuss core issues in the conflict on Monday, the Palestinian leader says.
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MECCA, Saudi Arabia  - Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas arrived in the Islamic holy city of Mecca on Tuesday for what officials depicted as a last-ditch effort to end factional fighting and a crippling Western embargo.
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Muslim diplomats were meeting Monday with Pope Benedict XVI in the pontiff's latest effort to mend relations after his remarks about Islam and violence ignited the Vatican's most serious international crisis in decades.
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Egypt plays down political rifts as the reason for postponing this week&#39;s intra-Palestinian talks. Khaled Amayreh in the West Bank and Rasha Saad in Cairo report.
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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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Rival Palestinian forces exchanged fire in the Gaza Strip on Monday, residents said, despite appeals for calm from moderate President Mahmoud Abbas and Prime Minister Ismail Haniyeh of Hamas.
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Deadly clashes erupted Monday between rival factions in the Gaza Strip for the first time in more than a month, despite a conciliatory speech toward Hamas by Fatah's leader, Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas.
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The first meeting of national dialogue between the Palestinian National Authority (PNA) and various factions started in Gaza Monday evening in less than one week after Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat&#39;s death.