Palestinian PM urges Abbas to resume unity talks
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Palestinian Prime Minister Ismail Haniyeh on Friday urged President Mahmoud Abbas to resume talks on forming a national unity coalition after Abbas threatened to dissolve the Hamas-led government.
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MECCA, Saudi Arabia  - Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas and his Hamas rivals prepared on Tuesday for talks on a unity government, with less than two weeks to go until a new bid to revive stalled peace negotiations with Israel.
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Prime Minister Ismail Haniyeh of Hamas   said on Sunday talks on a Palestinian unity government could   still succeed, brushing aside President Mahmoud Abbas's comment   that they had reached "point zero" and must start from scratch.
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MECCA, Saudi Arabia  - Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas held crisis talks with Hamas in Saudi Arabia on Wednesday in an effort to forge a unity government and end internecine violence that has killed scores since December.
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RAMALLAH, West Bank  - Palestinian President   Mahmoud Abbas has frozen talks on forming a unity government   after Hamas said it would not accept existing peace deals with   Israel, an aide said on Sunday.
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Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas held  talks with Hamas leaders in Gaza on Tuesday in the shadow of a  suicide bombing that underscored the difficulties he faces in  persuading militant groups to halt attacks on Israel.
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RAMALLAH, West Bank  - Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas cautioned on Monday that much had yet to be decided about holding a conference the United States hopes may relaunch Middle East peace talks in the coming months.
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CAIRO -- Palestinian efforts to forge a national unity government are back at ``point zero," President Mahmoud Abbas said yesterday.
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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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MECCA, Saudi Arabia  - Rival Palestinian factions agreed to form a unity government on Thursday and end fighting and Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas called on the new government to respect previous agreements.
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Palestinian Prime Minister Ismail Haniyeh of Hamas said on Monday he hoped a meeting with President Mahmoud Abbas would result in an agreement on a unity government to end a crippling Western embargo.
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Moderate Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas said Tuesday that peace talks with Israel must continue despite the escalating confrontation between Israel and the Hamas government in Gaza.
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Hamas's exiled political leader urges Palestinian unity amid rising tensions and violence between Hamas and Fatah.
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Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas said Sunday that he was ready to meet unconditionally with the Israeli leader, possibly paving the way for a resumption of long-stalled peace talks.
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RAMALLAH, West Bank  - President Mahmoud Abbas has   frozen talks on forming a Palestinian unity government after   Hamas said it would not accept interim peace deals with Israel,   two of his aides said on Sunday.
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Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas and   Prime Minister Ismail Haniyeh of Hamas on Monday reached a deal   to form a unity government that the Palestinians hope will end   their international isolation and revive aid.
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Palestinian leader Mahmoud Abbas called on  Tuesday for his people to pursue negotiations instead of  violence in the struggle for a state, marking out a change of  strategy for peace with Israel after Yasser Arafat's death.