Palestinian emergency cabinet excludes Hamas
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Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas has sworn in new cabinet members for his emergency government at his headquarters in Ramallah.
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As Islamist gunmen routed his last forces in Gaza, Western-backed President Mahmoud Abbas dismissed the Palestinian government on Thursday and declared a state of emergency after six days of bloody faction fighting.
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NABLUS, West Bank  - Israeli forces seized a Palestinian cabinet minister and more than 30 other officials on Thursday in a new phase of a crackdown on Hamas Islamists that a United Nations envoy described as "troubling".
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The Hamas-led Palestinian government closed all of its ministries Monday following massive anti-government protests in Gaza and the West Bank on Sunday.
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NABLUS, West Bank  - Israeli forces seized a Palestinian minister and other officials on Thursday in a crackdown on Hamas, which defied a call by President Mahmoud Abbas to stop firing rockets at Israel.
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Israel detains more than 30 senior Hamas officials, including the Palestinian education minister.
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Israel rounded up a Palestinian Cabinet minister and 32 other Hamas leaders in the West Bank before dawn Thursday, trying a new tactic in its campaign to pressure the Islamic militant group into halting rocket barrages from the Gaza Strip.
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RAMALLAH, West Bank  - Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas, maneuvering against his Hamas rivals, overruled constitutional curbs on his emergency government and named an ex-guerrilla chief for a key security post on Sunday.
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Fatah and Hamas clashed at Cabinet ministries, universities and security headquarters Saturday in defiance of a truce that was to have calmed the seething Gaza Strip.
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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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Palestinian Islamist group Hamas on Saturday dismissed U.S. President George W. Bush's upcoming visit to the Middle East as a "photo opportunity" and said he was not welcome in the region.
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President Mahmoud Abbas's emergency government paid Palestinian Authority workers, excluding some 19,000 who report to Hamas, their first full wages in 17 months on Wednesday.
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Prime Minister Ariel Sharon convened an emergency cabinet meeting in Jerusalem on Friday, in the aftermath of Thursday night&#39;s bombings in Sinai in which 33 people were killed, and praised the cooperation between Israeli and Egyptian authorities in rescue
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Palestinian 'unity' cabinet on verge of collapse as Islamists plan to seize presidential compound
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JERUSALEM, May 26 -- Israeli military aircraft fired on a Hamas post Saturday in the Gaza Strip, killing at least five gunmen from the radical Islamic movement, and Israeli troops arrested a Hamas cabinet minister, the second in less than a week.
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MECCA, Saudi Arabia  - Rival Palestinian factions have agreed to give key cabinet posts to independents at crisis talks in Saudi Arabia, overcoming a key stumbling block to a unity government, officials said on Thursday.
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Palestinian Prime Minister Ismail Haniyeh, a leader of the Islamist group Hamas, was prevented from returning to Gaza on Thursday after a two-week trip abroad, a spokewoman for European monitors at the border said.