Abbas visits Jenin to continue election campaign
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As part of his election campaign,Palestine Liberation Organization chief Mahmoud Abbas visited onThursday the northern West Bank town of Jenin and met with localleaders, Palestinian official sources said.
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JERICHO, West Bank  - Emergent Palestinian leader  Mahmoud Abbas drew cheers at his first election rally on  Tuesday by vowing to follow in Yasser Arafat's footsteps while  stressing he would seek a state via peace talks with Israel.
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RAMALLAH, West Bank  - Prominent Palestinian  figures appealed on Sunday for an end to violence, adding  weight to the election campaign of moderate Mahmoud Abbas to  succeed Yasser Arafat and launch peace talks with Israel.
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During a two-day visit to Damascus by Mahmoud Abbas, head of the Palestine Liberation Organisation and official candidate of the Fatah movement in the elections, the Palestinians
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Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas  traveled to the Gaza Strip on Friday for talks with militants  after fighters bombarded Jewish settlements and threatened his  truce with Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon.
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JERUSALEM Palestinian leaders have outlined plans to persuade visiting American envoys to help ensure smooth elections to replace Yasser Arafat.
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Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas called Saturday for elections to end his violent standoff with Hamas &#151; a gamble that Palestinians will back him as he seeks to weaken the Islamic militants, avoid civil war and keep momentum for peace overtures with Israel.
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EL-BIREH, West Bank -- Candidates vying to succeed Yasser Arafat as president of the Palestinian Authority kicked off a two-week election campaign Saturday with rallies and speeches that largely invoked the late leader&#39;s legacy and vowed to continue his
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Mahmoud Abbas, the leading candidate in next week's presidential election, on Monday promised Palestinian refugees they'll be able to return home one day &#151; his most explicit comment yet on an explosive issue that has derailed peace talks in the past.
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RAMALLAH, West Bank  - Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas is planning to call early elections, seeing little point in further talks on a government to replace a Hamas-led coalition boycotted by the West, aides said on Saturday.
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Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas plans to send a delegation to the U.N. next week to try to revive the 'road map' peace plan, hoping to win legitimacy for the unity government his moderate Fatah faction and ...
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RAMALLAH, West Bank  - President Mahmoud Abbas called on Saturday for Palestinian elections, throwing down the gauntlet to his Hamas rivals after days of factional violence that has sparked fears of civil war.
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RAMALLAH, West Bank, Dec. 19 -- Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas said Monday he is pushing ahead with early elections despite factional fighting that intensified after his initial call for a poll, and he appealed for international help in restarting peace talks with Israel.
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NABLUS, West Bank  - Just two days after branding  Israel the "Zionist enemy," Palestinian leader Mahmoud Abbas  pledged on Thursday to pursue peace talks following the Jan. 9  presidential election he is widely expected to win.
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Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas said on Tuesday he would meet Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert next week, keeping alive a U.S.-backed dialogue despite Hamas rocket attacks on Israel and Israeli air raids in Gaza.
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Emergent Palestinian leader Mahmoud Abbas drew cheers at his first election rally on Tuesday by vowing to follow in Yasser Arafat&#39;s footsteps while stressing he would seek a state via peace talks with Israel.
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PLO Chairman Mahmoud Abbas (Abu Mazen) on Sunday renewed his pledge to honor Yasser Arafat&#39;s legacy by working to establish a Palestinian state with Jerusalem as its capital alongside Israel.