Arafat pledge over UK hostage support
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Yasser Arafat has promised to intercede on behalf of Briton Ken Bigley held hostage in Iraq, says an Irish MP.
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Tens of thousands of Palestinians pledged  support to front-running presidential candidate Mahmoud Abbas  on Friday as he made his first visit to Gaza since the start of  a campaign to succeed Yasser Arafat.
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British Prime Minister Tony Blair pledged on Sunday to support Iraq's government as it battles instability underscored when gunmen carried out a mass kidnapping at a Red Crescent office in the capital.
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Yasser Arafat has promised to intercede on behalf of British hostage Ken Bigley, a senior Irish politician says. Michael Higgins, foreign affairs spokesman for the Labour Party in Dublin, said the Palestinian leader made his pledge in a letter to him.
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On the day that Yasser Arafat left for urgent medical treatment in France, the press in the Palestinian territories and the wider Arab world hails his commitment to the Palestinian cause and prays for his speedy recovery.
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Releases aimed at bolstering support for Mahmoud Abbas after Hamas coup in Gaza Strip.
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Palestinian President Yasser Arafat is  to lobby for the release of Kenneth Bigley, the British  engineer held hostage in Iraq, Irish and Palestinian officials  said on Tuesday.
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Palestinian leaders have agreed on a plan to provide security in Gaza and the West Bank as Yasser Arafat remains in serious condition in a Paris hospital.
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Former Palestinian prime minister Mahmud Abbas has urged all Palestinian forces to unite, while pledging allegiance to ailing leader Yasser Arafat who is undergoing emergency tests in Paris.
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After Barghoutiâs decision to back the PLO chairman, Fatahâs military wing says it &quot;believes Abu Mazen will implement the will of the Palestinian peopleâ.
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BBC journalist Alan Johnston meets Palestinian President Abbas to thank him for helping secure his release.
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Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas said he will support an expected decision by a top P.L.O. decision-making body to call early elections.
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Yasser Arafat's senior deputies were to  fly to France on Monday hoping to visit the critically ill  Palestinian president after approving a plan for maintaining  law and order in the West Bank and Gaza.
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Britain and Israel today held out the prospect of a West Asia peace conference in London after the Palestinians elect a successor to Yasser Arafat on Jan. 9. Britainâs Daily Telegraph
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Palestinians ready to compromise will claim to be completing Arafat's journey. So will those wanting to fight on
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Britain&#39;s Prime Minister Gordon Brown on  Sunday pledged technical support for peacekeepers due to go to  Sudan&#39;s Darfur region, but warned Khartoum of possible further  sanctions if it failed to make &quot;necessary changes.&quot;
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GAZA CITY - Palestinian President Yasser Arafat has offered to help secure the release of a British hostage being held in Iraq and demanded that Palestinian militants release a CNN producer kidnapped in Gaza, officials say.