Sharon&#39;s coalition struggles to survive
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Ariel Sharon struggled yesterday to shore up support for his crumbling coalition and avoid early general elections that the prime minister warned posed &quot;a great danger&quot; for Israel.
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Convinced that 2005 will be a year of great peace opportunities, Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon is throwing his considerable political weight behind a coalition with the Labor Party.
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Reeling from a parliamentary defeat, Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon prepared on Thursday to open coalition talks to save his shattered government and avoid early elections that could stall his Gaza withdrawal plan.
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Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon&#39;s Likud party has dealt a serious setback to his plan to evacuate occupied Gaza by voting to bar him from forging a broad coalition with the Labour opposition.
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The assembly government faces defeat in a key budget vote but a split in the opposition ranks could yet save its day.
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Japanese PM Shinzo Abe admits his coalition faces a difficult battle to win the upper house elections.
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The formation of Ariel Sharon&#39;s new &quot;unity&quot; coalition with the opposition Labour Party was threatened with delay last night after an unexpected hitch.
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Prime Minister Ariel Sharon is facing threats from inside and outside his largest coalition partner that may bring down the Israeli government, which would force the country to hold early elections and suspend his Gaza withdrawal plan.
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All of the downfalls and the resurgences of Ariel Sharon pale in comparison to the battle awaiting him on Thursday, when the Likud conference votes on whether to hold coalition talks with Labor.
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Israel&#39;s Prime Minister Ariel Sharon&#39;s recent decisions rather than advancing the peace process will probably contribute to stall it even further.
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Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon launched new efforts Tuesday to widen his shaky coalition after a stinging setback in parliament that complicated his plan to withdraw from some occupied territory.
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The move stabilizes Prime Minister Ehud Olmertâs coalition despite last weekâs harsh report on the handling of the Lebanon war in 2006.
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Ariel Sharon&#39;s right-wing nationalist coalition in Israel is imploding and Fatah, the core Palestinian nationalist group, is in turmoil now that Marwan Barghouti, the young West Bank leader, is to campaign to succeed the late Yassir Arafat from an Israeli
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Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon's  shaky coalition Tuesday faced collapse in a row over the 2005  budget, raising the prospect of early elections that would  endanger his plan to withdraw from the Gaza Strip.
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TEL AVIV A shaky political system here raised a huge question mark last week over Prime Minister Ariel Sharon&#39;s ability to pursue his only existing diplomatic plan - the initiative to evacuate the Gaza strip and to remove some of the Israeli settlements
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Reeling from a parliamentary defeat,  Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon prepared Thursday to open  coalition talks to save his shattered government and avoid  early elections that could stall his Gaza withdrawal plan.
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REELING from a parliamentary defeat, Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon last night prepared to open coalition talks to save his shattered government.