Palestinians agree on key posts for unity cabinet
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MECCA, Saudi Arabia  - Rival Palestinian factions agreed at crisis talks in Saudi Arabia on Thursday to give key cabinet posts to independents, overcoming one stumbling block to a unity government, officials said.
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GAZA CITY -- Hamas officials gave Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas the go-ahead yesterday for negotiations with Israel, a major shift in the militant Islamic group's position as it works to end its international isolation.
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Saudi Arabia sponsored the talks, which aim to coax the two Palestinian factions to agree on a unity government.
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The Quartet of Middle East peace   mediators on Wednesday endorsed Palestinian President Mahmoud   Abbas' effort to establish a national unity government with   Hamas, which is still officially committed to the destruction   of Israel.
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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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Senior Palestinian officials said Monday they will start forming a new, national unity government in coming days, but acknowledged that previous dealbreakers, such as control over the security forces and the fate of Hamas' militia, have still not been resolved.
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Israeli and Palestinian leaders agreed on Friday to take steps previously agreed under a long-stalled peace plan to try to narrow differences ahead of a U.S.-sponsored conference on establishing a Palestinian state.
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JERUSALEM -- Palestinian leaders agreed yesterday to establish a unity government including the moderate Fatah party to replace the administration led by the Islamic militant group Hamas, a step that Palestinians hope will lead to the lifting of an international funding freeze that has crippled the government since Hamas took office in March.
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MECCA, Saudi Arabia  - Rival Palestinian factions signed a deal to form a unity government at talks in Saudi Arabia on Thursday, Al Jazeera television reported.
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European Union leaders pledged Friday to work with a new Palestinian unity government as long as its programme takes into account the demands of the international Quartet on the Middle East.
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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.
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Palestinian leader Mahmoud Abbas says agreement on the policies of a unity government with Hamas has been struck.
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Rival Palestinian factions drew close to an agreement Thursday over the outlines of a power-sharing government in which the militant Hamas group would promise to "respect" peace deals signed with Israel
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Hamas gave Palestinian Prime Minister Ismail Haniyeh its list of nominees for ministerial posts in a national unity cabinet on Saturday, but a source in the Islamist movement declined to reveal the names.
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Palestinian officials approved a new Cabinet on Wednesday that is expected to put strong allies of Palestinian leader Mahmoud Abbas in charge of key portfolios.
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Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert and Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas agreed on Monday to create teams to tackle Palestinian statehood issues.
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The Israeli Cabinet agreed in principle on Sunday to release scores of Palestinian prisoners as a gesture to Egypt and Palestinian officials in the run