Fatah to meet on Palestinian elections as Hamas,Jihad reject truce ...
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Palestinian mainstream Fatah movement factions are expected to hold meetings starting Sunday to discuss issues concerning the coming presidential elections.
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Visiting German Foreign Minister Joschka Fischer said Sunday that Palestinian presidential elections and an end to violence could lead to renewed Israeli-Palestinian peace talks, but leaders of the Islamic group Hamas dismissed the possibility of a truce.
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RAMALLAH, West Bank  - Palestinian President   Mahmoud Abbas will meet with Hamas leaders in the Gaza Strip as   early as Monday to try to revive stalled talks on a unity   government, aides said.
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Fatah and Hamas clashed at Cabinet ministries, universities and security headquarters Saturday in defiance of a truce that was to have calmed the seething Gaza Strip.
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The Palestinian Islamic militant faction  Hamas will boycott a Jan. 9 presidential election for a  successor to Yasser Arafat, a senior Hamas leader said on  Wednesday.
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GAZA CITY, 3 December 2004 - Islamic Jihad said yesterday it would boycott a Jan. 9 Palestinian presidential election for a successor to Yasser Arafat.
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The Islamic resistance movement Hamas on Wednesday refused to halt attacks against the Jewish settlements during the period of preparations for the Jan. 9 elections.
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The leading Palestinian factions Hamas and Fatah agreed to a cease-fire after street battles left at least two people dead, leaders of other parties involved in the talks announced early Monday.
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Palestinian rivals Hamas and Fatah said they had agreed to a ceasefire on Sunday after a day of bloodshed in which President Mahmoud Abbas's offices came under mortar fire and his Fatah forces seized two ministries.
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Leaders of the rival Hamas and Fatah groups were due to hold talks in Saudi Arabia on Tuesday aimed at ending factional warfare and forming a unity government that can end a crippling Western embargo.
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Hamas and Fatah are invited to Mecca to make a power sharing deal. If the talks fail, the war will escalate
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The Palestinian Fatah Movement threatened to boycott the upcoming presidential elections unless the cause of Yasser Arafat&#39;s is revealed.
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RAMALLAH, West Bank  - Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas said on Monday he would press on with early elections as a truce between his security forces and the Hamas government came under strain in the Gaza Strip.
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The militant Palestinian group Hamas said Friday it was setting aside its differences with ailing Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat and called for a united Palestinian leadership to work toward general elections.
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Palestinian leader Mahmoud Abbas failed at talks with militants on Wednesday to win a commitment to end attacks on Israelis in the run-up to Jan. 9 elections for a replacement to Yasser Arafat, political sources said.
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Palestinian leader Mahmoud Abbas is expected to meet militant factions in a bid to shore up a truce with Israel.
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RAMALLAH, West Bank -- The militant group Hamas will accept a Palestinian state in the West Bank and Gaza Strip and a long-term truce with Israel, a leader said yesterday, apparently softening Hamas's hard-line stance and boosting hopes for renewed peace efforts after Yasser Arafat's death.