EU Official Now Denies Hamas Contact
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The European Union's foreign policy chief denied Thursday that he recently met with the Palestinian militant group Hamas, which the EU has blacklisted as a terrorist organization.
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The next holder of the EU presidency rejects a French bid to debate on Turkey's EU membership bid.
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LONDON: The United States and the European Union are in contact with Palestinian militant group Hamas despite having listed it as a terrorist organisation, a Hamas leader said in an interview broadcast on Monday.
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The UN relief agency for Palestinians denies Israel's claim to have 13 of its staff detained for terrorist links.
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The European Union on Friday condemned the &quot;violent&quot; seizure of power by Hamas in the Gaza Strip, which Britain labelled a &quot;coup d&#39;etat&quot; against beleaguered Palestinian president Mahmud Abbas.
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The Palestinians' ruling Hamas group will not join a planned coalition government if recognizing Israel is a condition, a close aide to Prime Minister Ismail Haniyeh of Hamas said Friday.
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Palestinian Foreign Minister Nabil Shaath has denied reports that President Yasser Arafat is dead, adding that Islam did not allow for him to be taken off life-support.
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Israel blocked Palestinian Prime Minister Ismail Haniyeh, a Hamas leader, from returning to Gaza on Thursday after a visit abroad, in an effort to prevent him bringing in money donated by Iran.
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Officials in Jerusalem are denying allegations that a Pentagon employee was leaking secret information to them about White House deliberations on Iran.
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The United States denied it had held contacts with Hamas as a leader of the radical Palestinian group has claimed. &quot;We don&#39;t conduct business with designated terrorist organisations.
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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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The European Union's foreign policy chief Javier Solana said in an interview broadcast Thursday that he met recently with Islamic militant group Hamas, which the EU has blacklisted as a terrorist organization.
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The European Union is not yet ready to resume aid to the Palestinian government despite the unity accord signed last week in Mecca, EU External Relations Commissioner Benita Ferrero-Waldner has said.
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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.
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Rabei Ousmane Sayed Ahmed, an alleged mastermind of the train bombings on March 11, 2004, in Madrid, on Thursday rejected all charges against him.Comment
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Palestinian militant group Hamas says it will not join a unity government if it means recognising Israel.
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Eritrea denies the claim made by a senior Ethiopian official that its soldiers kidnapped five Europeans connected to the British embassy.Comment