THE SITUATION: With Eye on Labor, Sharon Fires Last Coalition ...
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Prime Minister Sharon, his right-wing base decimated by opposition to his Gaza disengagement plan, lost his last coalition partner and moved perilously close to losing his government
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Israel&#39;s opposition Labour party is likely to join Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon&#39;s coalition next week, a move that could promote his Gaza pullout plan and avoid
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Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon  sacked his main coalition partner on Wednesday and aides said  he would immediately approach the Labour party to save his  government from collapse and keep a Gaza pullout plan on track.
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Prime Minister Ariel Sharon today asked the leader of the Labor Party to begin talks on forming a coalition government.
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Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon&#39;s Likud Party voted to support talks to bring Labor and other opposition parties into the coalition to keep the government afloat after it lost its last remaining partner a week ago.
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Israeli political parties were yesterday bogged down in hard bargaining over the formation of a new coalition government to implement the plan of Ariel Sharon, prime minister, to
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Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon's  coalition faced possible collapse on Wednesday as a budget vote  was likely to force him to remake his government or call  elections that would imperil his Gaza withdrawal plan.
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Israeli PM Ariel Sharon&#39;s coalition faces possible collapse over a vote likely to force him to remake his government or call elections that would imperil his Gaza withdrawal plan.
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Government faces fresh upheaval today as Labour contenders vow to end Ehud Olmert's tenure.
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Fresh from a painful parliamentary defeat, Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon said Thursday he'll turn to his old rivals in the Labor Party to save his shattered coalition and get the support he needs to leave the Gaza Strip.
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ARIEL SHARONâS shaky government was in turmoil last night after the Israeli Prime Minister sacked the junior partner from his ruling coalition.
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Prime Minister Ariel Sharon is expected to offer Labor eight cabinet posts, including two minister-without-portfolio positions.
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JERUSALEM -- Prime Minister Ariel Sharon of Israel asked the Labor Party yesterday to join his ruling coalition, a move that would bolster his chances of carrying out a withdrawal from the Gaza Strip next year.
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The government of Prime Minister Ariel Sharon was thrown into crisis last night after Israel&#39;s parliament rejected the proposed 2005 budget and Sharon
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After Labor rejected Sharonâs ultimatum of four portfolios and two ministers without portfolio, PM officials said Labor leaders were âwimpsâ and âpatheticâ.
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ISRAELI Prime Minister Ariel Sharon was last night negotiating with the Labour Party and ultra-religious groups in a make-or-break bid to build a new coalition capable of ensuring a Gaza Strip pullout next year, after he dismissed the five ministers of
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Prime Minister Ariel Sharon phoned the leader of the Labor Party, Shimon Peres, this morning and asked him to begin talks on forming a coalition government, Israel Radio reported.