Haniyeh remains defiant
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GAZA CITY -- Hamas will not recognize Israel or give in to international pressure that has crippled the Palestinian government, Prime Minister Ismail Haniyeh told tens of thousands of banner-waving supporters at a rally yesterday.
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Iran vowed defiantly on Thursday not to   bow to Western pressure, hours before a U.N. watchdog was   expected to report Tehran had failed to meet a deadline to halt   work which the West fears could help it build a nuclear bomb.
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LEADERSHIP: Hamas and Islamic Jihad said they want nothing to do with the election of a new leader to replace Yasser Arafat. Hamas also vowed to keep up attacks on Israel.
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Iraq's firebrand Sunni Arab parliament speaker will not be removed from his post, a legislator from the country's most powerful Shiite political bloc said Friday.
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Israel&#39;s prime minister has vowed to press on with his disengagement plan, despite its receiving another rejection from his mutinous Likud party.
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Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon  vowed on Thursday to press ahead with his Gaza pullout plan  despite his own party's humiliating rebuff of his bid to forge  a coalition with the pro-withdrawal Labour Party.
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Ariel Sharon, the Israeli prime minister, yesterday vowed to press ahead with his plan to withdraw Gaza&#39;s Jewish settlements, despite his defeat at the hands of his own party on Wednesday.
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Israel says it will not limit the number of Muslims at Jerusalem's holy site during the Ramadan fasting month.
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The Islamic resistance movement Hamas on Wednesday refused to halt attacks against the Jewish settlements during the period of preparations for the Jan. 9 elections.
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Imagine a pious Muslim faced with a ban on fabricating a certain kind of weapon. He is committed to obeying unquestioningly the fatwas of his religious leader and yet discovers that producing
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Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon vowed on Thursday to press ahead with his Gaza pullout plan despite his own party&#39;s humiliating rebuff of his bid to forge a coalition with the pro-withdrawal Labour Party.
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Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh has said he would be willing to negotiate a cease-fire with Israel -- but Israel is reacting coolly.
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Israeli Defence Minister Ehud Barak says he will not quit PM Ehud Olmert's coalition over the 2006 Lebanon war.
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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.
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Gush Katif settlers tried to appear nonchalant yesterday over the latest declarations by Prime Minister Ariel Sharon, but their statements grow harsher and the term &quot;dictator&quot; keeps recurring.
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Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon has vowed to press ahead with his Gaza pullout plan despite a humiliating rebuff from his own party of his bid to forge a coalition with the pro-withdrawal Labour Party.
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Palestinian Prime Minister Ismail Haniyeh   of Hamas said on Sunday he remained hopeful a unity government   would be established, brushing aside President Mahmoud Abbas's   assertion that talks had to start from scratch.