Budget fight deals setback to Sharon
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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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Prime Minister Ariel Sharon opened a stormy debate in parliament yesterday with a passionate appeal to lawmakers to support his Gaza withdrawal plan - which has divided the country and weakened his government - as the only way to
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Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon&#39;s Likud party has dealt a serious setback to his plan to evacuate occupied Gaza by voting to bar him from forging a broad coalition with the Labour opposition.
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Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon tries to save his government after sacking its junior coalition partner.
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Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon's Likud party has dealt a serious setback to his plan to evacuate occupied Gaza by voting to bar him from forging a broad coalition with the Labour opposition.
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JERUSALEM - Prime Minister Ariel Sharon, who has alienated his right-wing Likud party with plans to withdraw from Gaza, begins a new legislative session fighting for his government's survival.    Lawmakers were scheduled to vote on two motions of no confidence Monday, the first day of Israel's winter parliamentary session...
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Ariel Sharon, Israel&#39;s prime minister, faces a cabinet crisis despite winning a vote on the withdrawal from all settlements in Gaza and parts of the West Bank.
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Prime Minister Ariel Sharon's own party handed him a stinging rebuke, banning him from adding the moderate Labor Party to his government to bolster a Gaza pullout plan &#151; a move that endangered the proposed withdrawal.
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Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon  launched new efforts on Tuesday to widen his shaky coalition  after a stinging setback in parliament that complicated his  plan to withdraw from some occupied territory.
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Prime Minister Ariel Sharon is facing threats from inside and outside his largest coalition partner that may bring down the Israeli government, which would force the country to hold early elections and suspend his Gaza withdrawal plan.
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Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon is desperately trying to save his government after he sacked his main coalition partner yesterday.
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JERUSALEM - Israel&#39;s parliament voted against the state budget yesterday, triggering a political crisis that could topple Prime Minister Ariel Sharon&#39;s government.
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JERUSALEM -- Prime Minister Ariel Sharon&#39;s ruling coalition was in tatters Wednesday night after he tossed his main political partner out of the government for defying him on a key budget measure.
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Prime Minister Ariel Sharon renewed efforts yesterday to expand his embattled coalition government, declaring the current political deadlock untenable after his Gaza pullout plan suffered an embarrassing blow in parliament.
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Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon's  biggest coalition partner threatened on Monday to quit,  deepening a political crisis over the 2005 state budget whose  passage is crucial to the government's survival.
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Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon now finds himself in a difficult position following this week&#39;s rejection by his own Likud party of his plan to bring the opposition Labour Party into the coalition government. Following ...
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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