Factions attempt unity as Arafat&#39;s condition wavers
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Palestinian Prime Minister Ahmed Qureia met in Gaza City yesterday with leaders of the main Pales-tinian armed factions and security officials in a bid to prevent any outbreak of violence if Palestinian President Yasser Arafat dies.
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A mysterious ailment has weakened Yasir Arafat and raised concerns that Palestinian politics could be plunged into turmoil.
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BEIRUT, Lebanon The militant group Hamas is calling for unity among Palestinian leaders and says it&#39;s setting aside differences with an ailing Yasser Arafat.
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People on both sides called for unity, but the anniversary of the assassination of Rafik Hariri, the former prime minister, illustrated Lebanonâs deep divisions and tensions.
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The death or long-term incapacitation of Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat will be a turning point in Middle East history. It could suddenly remove an obstacle to peace or unleash a bloody power struggle among Palestinians factions.
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&#39;JERUSALEM -- Seeking calm and unity, Palestinian Prime Minister Ahmed Qureia asked militant factions to refrain from attacks inside Israel, an Israeli newspaper reported today, as the Palestinians awaited word on their critically ill leader, Yasser Arafat
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Mahmoud Abbas, the new chairman of the Palestinian Liberation Organisation, last night appealed to Gaza&#39;s rival factions to unite behind the task of arranging orderly elections 24 hours after a shooting which claimed the life of one of his own bodyguards.
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Ramallah, West Bank - The Palestinian leadership held its first meeting Saturday since the departure of the ailing Yasser Arafat, putting on a show of unity to dispel concerns about possible chaos and infighting in his absence.
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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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JERUSALEM, Nov 15  - Israel is looking on anxiously at the unfolding struggle to fill the void left by Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat&#39;s death, keen to assist moderate elements to ensure a peaceful transition of power.
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Senior Palestinian officials convened meetings in the West Bank today in response to conflicting reports over the declining health of Palestinian leader Yasir Arafat, who has been in a
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MECCA, Saudi Arabia  - Rival Palestinian factions agreed on the formation of a unity government at crisis talks in Saudi Arabia on Thursday, an official said.
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Palestinians looked to their leadership to lift confusion over Yasser Arafat&#39;s fate in a French hospital on Wednesday as preparations gathered pace to bury the icon of the fight for a state.
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Yasser Arafat was in a critical but  stable condition on Friday as a row brewed over where he would  be buried and questions loomed about who might succeed him.
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Representatives of Palestinianpolitical powers and factions held a meeting Wednesday atPalestinian leader Yasser Arafat&#39;s headquarters in the Gaza City todiscuss the situation
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Yasser Arafat lay in critical condition  in a French hospital on Saturday and militants pressed  Palestinian Prime Minister Ahmed Qurie to give them decision-  making powers in a temporary unified leadership if he dies.
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Palestinian society is splintered along deep political, geographic and ideological lines that will be exacerbated by the death of Arafat.