Palestinian tensions high after Abbas election call
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Hamas has accused Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas of launching a coup after he announced a plan for early elections in an attempt to break a political deadlock and have crippling international sanctions lifted.
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GAZA CITY: PLO leader Mahmud Abbas stepped up calls yesterday to end &quot;armed chaos&quot; engulfing the occupied territories, as the new Palestinian leadership readied the ground for presidential elections in January.
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Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas is expected on Monday to urge Hamas Islamists to agree to early elections, cede control of the Gaza Strip and hold talks with his Fatah faction, a Palestinian official said.
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RAMALLAH, West Bank  - Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas is planning to call early elections, seeing little point in further talks on a government to replace a Hamas-led coalition boycotted by the West, aides said on Saturday.
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Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas said Saturday that he is calling new presidential and parliamentary elections at the earliest possible date, a dramatic challenge to the ruling Islamic militant Hamas government.
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PLO chairman Mahmoud Abbas today appeared to be guaranteed victory in the Palestinian presidential election after the withdrawal of his chief rival, but an upsurge of violence underlined the scale of the challenge ahead.
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A top Hamas leader accused Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas of Fatah of starting a war after his security forces opened fire on Friday on a Hamas rally in the West Bank and firefights broke out in Gaza.
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BEIJING, Dec. 30 -- Interim Palestinian leader Mahmoud Abbas has addressed an election rally of thousands in the West Bank town of Tulkarem, ahead of January 9th&#39;s presidential election.
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Palestinian presidential candidate Mustafa al-Barghuthi has accused Israel of &quot;disrupting and interfering with&quot; the upcoming Palestinian election, slated for 9 January.
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RAMALLAH, West Bank - Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas decreed new election rules yesterday intended to make it more difficult for his faction's Hamas rivals to win the presidency or keep their majority in Parliament.
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RAMALLAH, West Bank, Dec. 16 -- Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas announced Saturday that he has decided to call early elections, including for his own office, to end a political crisis in the Palestinian territories that has brought a surge in deadly factional violence over the past...
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RAMALLAH, WEST BANK -- Opinion polls published yesterday showed jailed Palestinian uprising leader Marwan Barghouti poses a threat to mainstream candidate Mahmoud Abbas in the Jan. 9 presidential election to replace Yasser Arafat.
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RAMALLAH, West Bank  - Prominent Palestinian  figures appealed Sunday for an end to violence, adding weight  to the election campaign of moderate Mahmoud Abbas to succeed  Yasser Arafat and launch peace talks with Israel.
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Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas's security forces fired on a Hamas rally in the West Bank and battles between the two factions erupted in Gaza on Friday, prompting a Hamas leader to accuse Abbas of starting a war.
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Israeli police have arrested a Palestinian presidential candidate as he campaigned in Jerusalem , witnesses said, in the latest incident to mar the run-up to elections for a successor to Yasir Arafat.
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A prominent candidate in the Palestinian presidential elections accused Israel yesterday of &quot;discrimination&quot; in allowing the former prime minister Mahmoud Abbas to travel freely
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PLO leader Mahmud Abbas stepped up calls Friday to end &quot;armed chaos&quot; engulfing the occupied territories, as the new Palestinian leadership readied the ground for presidential elections in January.