Hamas, Fatah head for unity talks in Mecca
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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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MECCA, Saudi Arabia  - Rival Palestinian factions have agreed to give key cabinet posts to independents at crisis talks in Saudi Arabia, overcoming a key stumbling block to a unity government, officials said on Thursday.
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Rival Palestinian factions are putting on a show of unity today in the Gaza Strip, as concern mounts over Yasser Arafat. Representatives of 13 Palestinian factions, including the two Islamic militant groups
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Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh, prime minister of the Palestinian government dismissed by President Mahmoud Abbas, called for power-sharing talks on Saturday with Fatah rivals routed from the Gaza Strip.
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MECCA, Saudi Arabia  - Rival Palestinian factions signed a deal to form a unity government on Thursday, hoping to end open warfare between their followers and international sanctions on the Hamas-led administration.
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MECCA, Saudi Arabia  - Rival Palestinian factions signed a deal to form a unity government on Thursday, hoping to end bloodshed between their followers and to win back Western aid halted because of the hostility of Hamas to Israel.
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Hamas vowed to avenge the killing of a leader in its armed wing on Tuesday in Gaza in renewed violence that erupted as talks over a Palestinian unity government bogged down in disagreement over a cabinet post.
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Hamasâs move is part of a deal to form a Palestinian unity government that will also include the Fatah faction.
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For the rival Palestinian factions, Hamas and Fatah, a reconciliation meeting this week in Saudi Arabia may be a last chance to avoid civil war.
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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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Hamas and Fatah security officials traded fire at Gaza's border with Egypt on Tuesday as Prime Minister Ismail Haniyeh passed through on his way to reconciliation talks between his Hamas movement and the rival Fatah group in Saudi Arabia, witnesses said.
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The Palestinian national resistance movement ( Hamas) disclosed that the sudden meeting which was held between the movement and the leadership of the Palestinian leadership in Gaza on Thursday evening came in the course of preparations for a series of
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Rival Palestinian factions Fatah and Hamas continue talks for a second day  in an effort to avert civil war.
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Hamas appeared to reinforce its armed presence on the streets of Gaza City on Friday ahead of a planned prayer rally by the rival Fatah faction and following a similar gathering last week that ended in violence.
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MECCA, Saudi Arabia  - Rival Palestinian factions agreed at crisis talks in Saudi Arabia on Thursday to give key cabinet posts to independents, overcoming one stumbling block to a unity government, officials said.
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RAFAH, Gaza Strip  - Hamas Islamists called on Egypt on Saturday to open its border crossing with the Gaza Strip to let more than 2,000 Palestinians return to their homes from the annual haj pilgrimage in Mecca.
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Hamas welcomes unity but seems to reject prime minister&#39;s call for a cease-fire. Hamas welcomes unity but seems to reject prime minister&#39;s call for a cease-fire.