Hamas Cabinet resigns, seen as key step
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Cabinet ministers in the Hamas-led Palestinian government resigned Thursday, a step toward forming a unity government with Palestinian President Mamoud Abbas' Fatah party.
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BAGHDAD, June 29 -- Members of the leading Sunni coalition in the Iraqi government said Friday that six of its ministers would withdraw from the Cabinet because of criminal accusations against one minister and their sense of alienation within the Shiite-dominated government.
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RAMALLAH, West Bank  - Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas will swear in a new prime minister and emergency cabinet on Saturday, a top aide said, replacing the Hamas-led government he fired after the group's bloody takeover of the Gaza Strip.
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With Monday's announcement of four Cabinet resignations, at least six Cabinet members are leaving the Bush administration.
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A government will be comprised Hamas and the Palestinian AuthorityÂs own Fatah party.
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RAMALLAH, West Bank -- The Palestinian Cabinet resigned yesterday in order to clear the way for a new unity government, and President Mahmoud Abbas said he plans to send a delegation to the U N to try to revive a Mideast peace plan.
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Abbas dissolves the government, but  Hamas now controls Gaza. For Israel, the choice is between trying to reverse that reality, or dealing  with the Islamists
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Rival Palestinian factions Hamas and Fatah agree to form a national unity government, officials say.
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Tom Ridge resigned Tuesday as Secretary of the Homeland Security Department, becoming the seventh member of President Bush&#39;s Cabinet to leave the administration since his re-election four weeks ago.
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Embattled Prime Minister Ali Mohamed Gedi named a new Cabinet Monday, two weeks after the old one was dissolved amid a rift within the U.N.-backed transitional government over how to respond to the growing influence of Islamic militants.
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While it is common for senior officials to leave office at the end of a presidential term, Secretary of State Colin Powell&#39;s resignation could seriously affect the makeup of President Bush&#39;s Cabinet.
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The moderate Palestinian government has ordered the closure of more than 100 institutions in the West Bank and Gaza, Prime Minister Salam Fayyad said Monday, in an apparent crackdown against the Islamic Hamas.
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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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Likud and Labor officials will meet today to customize Shimon Peresâ new Disengagement portfolio. Peres will be the cabinet minister in charge of implementing the Gaza Disengagement process along with being a Deputy Prime Minister.
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JERUSALEM - Israel is prepared to coordinate its pullout from Gaza with a new Palestinian government, officials said Sunday, a shift from Prime Minister Ariel Sharon&#39;s concept of &quot;unilateral disengagement&quot; and a sign that cooperation may be restored in
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Turkey's culture and tourism minister resigned from his position and left Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan's political party Tuesday, the first Cabinet member to leave the government since it took power more than two years ago.
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Hamas on Saturday rejected demands by PLO leaders that its government resign over the failure to form a moderate coalition acceptable to the West &#151; a sign of an intensifying power struggle between Islamic militants and moderate President Mahmoud Abbas.