Abbas halts talks coalition with Hamas
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Coalition talks between Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas and the militant group Hamas have stalled over U.S. demands that a national unity government recognize Israel, Palestinian officials said Sunday.
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RAMALLAH, West Bank  - Palestinian President   Mahmoud Abbas will not travel to Gaza on Tuesday as planned to   try to revive talks with Hamas on forming a unity government,   his spokesman said on Monday.
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Militant groups have agreed to suspend attacks as they near a formal truce deal with Palestinian leader Mahmoud Abbas and await Israel's response, a senior Palestinian official said Monday.
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Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas on Wednesday called off a summit with Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert, seeking commitments Israel will release frozen Palestinian funds and take other steps.
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Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas on Wednesday called off a planned summit with Israeli Prim e Minister Ehud Olmert, seeking commitments Israel will free frozen Palestinian funds and take other steps.
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Palestinian leader Mahmoud Abbas failed at  talks with militants on Wednesday to win a commitment to end  attacks on Israelis in the run-up to Jan. 9 elections for a  replacement to Yasser Arafat, political sources said.
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British Prime Minister Tony Blair met the moderate Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas on Monday to lend him support after a shaky truce between Abbas's forces and the Hamas government took effect in the Gaza Strip.
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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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Israel looks powerless to stop the barrage of rockets from Hamas-ruled Gaza. The Islamic militants, choked by a blockade of their territory, find it increasingly difficult to hold on to power. And moderate Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas is facing growing pressure to suspend peace talks because of Israel's strikes in Gaza.
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Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas said Monday that his moderate Fatah party and the ruling Hamas party have agreed to form a coalition government &#151; a move the Palestinians hope will ease crippling international sanctions. Later, Palestinian TV reported that Abbas would dissolve the Hamas-led Cabinet within 48 hours.
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Palestinian rivals Hamas and Fatah reached a deal on Sunday to stop fighting after a day of bloodshed in which President Mahmoud Abbas's offices came under mortar fire and his forces took over two ministries, Hamas said.
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RAMALLAH, West Bank  - Palestinian President   Mahmoud Abbas will meet 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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Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon has lifted a ban on peace talks with new Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas imposed after six Israelis were killed in a Gaza border ambush, political sources said on Wednesday.
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Israeli-Palestinian talks on security coordination scheduled after a ceasefire summit meeting were postponed on Thursday because of a fresh outbreak of violence, Palestinian officials said.
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The chief negotiator for the city of Fallujah said Monday that he had called off peace talks with the Iraqi government on the orders of guerrillas who control the city
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U.S. demands that a new Palestinian government recognize Israel have forced moderate President Mahmoud Abbas and the militant group Hamas to delay talks on forming a coalition, Palestinian officials said Sunday.
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GAZA CITY -- President Mahmoud Abbas's bumpy efforts to set up a Palestinian government acceptable to the West suffered a new setback yesterday when the prime minister from the Islamic militant Hamas group said he would not lead a coalition that recognizes Israel.