Abbas Sworn in as President, Israel Kills 8 in Gaza
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RAMALLAH, West Bank  - Mahmoud Abbas was sworn in  as Palestinian president on Saturday, but his call for a  cease-fire was overshadowed by fresh violence in Gaza and  Israel's decision to cut ties over a deadly militant attack.
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Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas fired  three of his own security chiefs Thursday after militants  punctured a cease-fire he had agreed with Israel by bombarding  Jewish settlements in Gaza with mortars.
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JERUSALEM, June 15 -- Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas dissolved the Palestinian government Thursday and declared a state of emergency after rival Hamas forces took complete control of the Gaza Strip in what the Islamic movement called the territory's "liberation."
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Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas fired  three of his top security chiefs on Thursday after militants,  puncturing a ceasefire he reached with Israel, bombarded Jewish  settlements in Gaza with mortar rounds.
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In his inaugural speech, Mahmoud Abbas struck a mostly conciliatory note and called for a cease-fire with Israel after more than four years of violence.
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RAMALLAH, West Bank -- His right hand on the Koran, Mahmoud Abbas took the oath of office yesterday as Palestinian Authority president, then declared that "our hand is extended toward an Israeli partner for making peace."
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Israel killed seven Palestinians in a series of air strikes in Gaza on Saturday, including three senior Islamic Jihad militants and a rocket manufacturer for a wing of Western-backed President Mahmoud Abbas's Fatah group.
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Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas has sworn in new cabinet members for his emergency government at his headquarters in Ramallah.
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RAMALLAH, West Bank  - Mahmoud Abbas won election  as Palestinian president with more than 60 percent of the vote,  officials said Monday, strengthening his hand to end years of  bloodshed and resume peace talks with Israel.
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RAMALLAH, West Bank  - Mahmoud Abbas was sworn in  as Palestinian president to succeed Yasser Arafat on Saturday,  but his call for a truce and talks were overshadowed by  Israel's decision to cut ties over a deadly militant attack.
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Mahmoud Abbas, the new leader of the Palestine Liberation Organization and the man expected to be elected the new president of the Palestinian Authority, has been making
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President Mahmoud Abbas rules the West Bank by decree, Hamas controls Gaza with guns and parliament is paralyzed.
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GAZA CITY -- Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas, confronting a brazen challenge to his authority, fired three top security commanders yesterday and issued a warning to Hamas after members of the militant Islamic group shelled Israeli settlements in the Gaza Strip in violation of a truce announced two days before.
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Rawhi Fattouh, speaker of the Palestinian Legislative Council, was sworn in today at noon as interim president of the Palestinian Authority, hours after Yasser Arafat died in a French hospital.
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Western-backed President Mahmoud Abbas dismissed the Hamas-led Palestinian government and declared a state of emergency as the Islamist group's gunmen routed his last forces in Gaza and seized effective control.
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In the biggest test of his brief tenure, Palestinian leader Mahmoud Abbas came to the Gaza Strip on Tuesday, hoping to persuade militants to halt attacks on Israel. But in a show of defiance, a Palestinian suicide bomber blew himself up on a settler road in Gaza, killing an Israeli security agent and wounding seven other Israelis.
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Abbas, known popularly as Abu Mazen, moved swiftly to assert his authority Thursday, firing 10 Palestinian security officials in Gaza.