Palestinians sign deal on unity government
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MECCA, Saudi Arabia  - Rival Palestinian factions signed a deal to form a unity government on Thursday, hoping to end open warfare between their followers and international sanctions on the Hamas-led administration.
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Hamasâs move is part of a deal to form a Palestinian unity government that will also include the Fatah faction.
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JERUSALEM - Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon&#39;s Likud party and the opposition Labor agreed Friday to form a national unity government, while at least eight Palestinians were killed during an Israeli army incursion in southern Gaza.
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Shia, Sunni and Kurdish leaders sign a deal aimed at curbing sectarian violence, Iraq's prime minister says.
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A Palestinian unity government is "99 percent" agreed, but will not be announced until next week, President Mahmoud Abbas said on Thursday after talks with his political rival, Prime Minister Ismail Haniyeh of Hamas.
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Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas told the U.N. General Assembly Thursday that the planned national unity government will recognize Israel.
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A new Palestinian unity government to be formed after a deal in Mecca between rival Fatah and Hamas factions will not recognize Israel, a political adviser to Hamas Prime Minister Ismail Haniyeh said on Saturday.
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Israeli Defence Minister says two Palestinian militant groups have agreed to a ceasefire during peace talks.
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Palestinians and Israelis have agreed in  principle to proposals aiming to end their conflict, Egypt's  official news agency MENA said Tuesday.
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JERUSALEM, Sept. 10 â Prime Minister Ehud Olmert of Israel and the Palestinian president, Mahmoud Abbas, agreed today to set up a team of negotiators to flesh out their understandings of what a permanent, two-state solution would like look and require.
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Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas formally asked Prime Minister Ismail Haniyeh of Hamas on Thursday to form a new unity government and urged him to respect peace accords signed with Israel.
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Four Chadian rebel groups signed a final peace agreement with their government Thursday, three weeks after negotiating the preliminary deal.
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Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas   reached a deal with Prime Minister Ismail Haniyeh of Hamas on   Monday to form a unity government the Palestinians hope will   end their international isolation and revive aid.
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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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The European Union said Friday that the move by Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas to form a national unity government was a welcome bid to end the deadlock created by January's election victory by the Hamas movement.
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The Palestinian Cabinet agrees the terms of a ceasefire to put to Israel to end cross-border attacks.
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To the cheers of thousands, Senegal&#39;s government signed a peace deal Thursday with separatist rebels aimed at ending two decades of low-level skirmishing in the southern Casamance region.