PA in talks with World Bank over Gaza after pullout
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The Palestinian Authority is negotiating with the World Bank and, indirectly, with Israeli representatives, regarding economic and administrative arrangements for the post-disengagement Gaza Strip.
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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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JERUSALEM - Israel&#39;s prime minister reportedly says he&#39;s willing to meet with the new Palestinian leadership to discuss his plans to withdrawal from Gaza.
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Israel has resumed talks with the Palestinian Authority on security cooperation, an Israeli official said on Tuesday about a move designed to bolster Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas after Hamas's Gaza takeover.
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Families that agree to vacate the Gaza strip are being compensated and move back into Israel proper. Sharon is seeking to remove Jewish settlers from Gaza and four West Bank enclaves - the settlers have been
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JERUSALEM -- Israel and the Palestinian government of President Mahmoud Abbas have resumed security talks after a long break, both sides said yesterday, a new sign of cooperation between Israel and Palestinian moderates since the Hamas takeover of Gaza.
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GAZA CITY, NOVEMBER 16: The new chairman of the Palestine Liberation Organisation, Mahmoud Abbas, met here last night with militant leaders as he began trying to solve the intricate political puzzle that Yasser Arafat left at his death.
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British Prime Minister Tony Blair met the moderate Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas on Monday to lend him support after a shaky truce between Abbas's forces and the Hamas government took effect in the Gaza Strip.
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Middle East mediators held talks on Tuesday that could clear the way for the appointment of Tony Blair as their envoy to try to revive peace prospects after Hamas seized control of the Gaza Strip.
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RAMALLAH, West Bank  - Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas said on Wednesday he might opt to dissolve the Hamas-led government and that unity talks with the Islamist group had broken down.
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JERUSALEM - After more than a year of avoiding Jewish settlers, Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon has decided to directly confront his former supporters in a meeting about his contentious plan to withdraw from the Gaza Strip and part of the West Bank.    Sharon invited settler leaders to meet with him in Jerusalem on Sunday, just a week before he presents his "disengagement" plan to parliament...
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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 met Prime Minister Ismail Haniyeh of Hamas in Gaza on Thursday for talks aimed at finalizing a unity government deal, a Palestinian official said.
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The president of the World Bank pushed Tuesday for Palestinian economic reforms and the lifting of Israeli travel restrictions in the West Bank in exchange for an additional $500 million in desperately needed aid to the Palestinians.
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Cairo: Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak held telephone talks with Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat about Israel&#39;s plan to pull troops and the 8,000 Jewish settlers out of the Gaza Strip next year, the Egyptian news agency Mena said.
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Palestinian interim leader Mahmoud Abbas talks to journalists as he leaves a meeting of Fatah Central Committee in the West Bank town of Ramallah, November 22.
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The Palestinian economy is in crisis, performing well below its potential, the World Bank says.