EU and US back Abbas in Gaza crisis
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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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President Bush won solid European support Wednesday for his handling of escalating nuclear crises with North Korea and Iran but was challenged over the Iraq war, the U.S. prison camp in Cuba and rising anti-American sentiment.
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European Union foreign ministers  agreed on Friday to back a Palestinian national unity  government being formed by President Mahmoud Abbas with the  Hamas Islamist movement, despite U.S. misgivings.
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RAFAH, Gaza Strip  - Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas won European and Arab backing on Monday for taking control of Gaza's breached border with Egypt, intensifying his power struggle with the Hamas Islamists who rule the enclave.
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President Bush and Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert agreed yesterday on a strategy to prop up the embattled Palestinian government of Mahmoud Abbas with financial aid, eased travel restrictions, moral support and peace talks as they struggled to counter the Hamas takeover of the Gaza Strip.
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Leaders from Israel, Egypt and Jordan met today to show support for the Palestinian president, Mahmoud Abbas.
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The diplomatic quartet on Middle East peace endorsed a European Union proposal for a temporary mechanism to funnel aid to the Palestinians, bypassing the Hamas-led government.
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"We will work to secure all basic needs for our people in Gaza"  The emergency government that Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas installed after Islamic militants seized control of Gaza reaped its first windfall on Monday, with the European Union promising to restore hundreds of millions of dollars in crucial aid.The EU traditionally has been the Palestinian Authority's largest donor, and the reinstatement of aid, cut off after the Islamic Hamas movement took power 15 months ago, could signal the beginning of the end to a crippling international boycott. Read more
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The European Union will resume direct aid to the Palestinians as part of efforts to support President Mahmoud Abbas's emergency cabinet, EU foreign policy chief Javier Solana said on Monday.
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The European Union wants to resume direct aid to the Palestinians to bolster President Mahmoud Abbas's emergency cabinet but is still looking at when it can release funds, EU officials said on Tuesday.
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US officials are given assurances over comments by an aide to the Israeli PM on the Gaza withdrawal.
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The EU says it will restart direct economic aid to the Palestinian Authority, to back an emergency cabinet.
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The United States plans to lift a ban on direct aid to the emergency government that Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas is forming following Hamas's takeover of the Gaza Strip, Washington's envoy said on Saturday.
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RAFAH, Gaza Strip  - The European Union on Monday raised the possibility of sending its monitors back to Gaza's breached border with Egypt and Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas sought to rally Western support to sideline Hamas.
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Palestinian President Mahmoud  Abbas won European and Arab backing on Monday for taking  control of Gaza's breached border with Egypt, intensifying his  power struggle with the Hamas Islamists who rule the enclave.
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The European Union wants to resume direct aid to the Palestinians to bolster President Mahmoud Abbas's emergency cabinet but is still looking at when it can release funds, EU officials said on Monday.
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Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas made a last push Saturday to win European support for lifting a crippling international aid embargo in talks with French President Jacques Chirac.Comment