Hamas win Russia boycott pledge
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Moscow says it will work to lift sanctions imposed by Western governments against the Palestinian government.
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Ismail Haniya told a crowd today that his Hamas movement would not give in to international pressure that has crippled his government.
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Shunned by the U.S. government as a terrorist organization, the Islamist group Hamas scored a publicity coup this week by defending its policies in Gaza with opinion pieces in two of the country's most influential newspapers on the same day.
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Hamas fighters on Thursday raised the green flags of the Islamist movement over one of the last Gaza City bastions of forces loyal to Western-backed Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas, witnesses said.
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Hamas leader Khaled Meshaal said on Friday several European states have pledged to send money to the new Palestinian government, adding that key peace mediators could also challenge the U.S. decision to shun the Palestinians.
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Hamas is to halt attacks on Israelis in the run-up to elections for a successor to the late Yasser Arafat, a senior leader of the militant group said yesterday.
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BEIJING, Dec. 2 (Xinhuaent) -- The Palestinian Islamic Resistance Movement, or Hamas, has announced that it will boycott the presidential elections.
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The armed wing of Hamas rejected Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas's call for the deployment of international troops in the Gaza Strip, vowing on Saturday to attack them like other "occupation forces".
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Hamas rejected Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas's call for the deployment of international troops in the Gaza Strip, vowing on Saturday to attack them like other "occupation forces".
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Hamas promised on Saturday to maintain a  de facto truce and, in a major policy change, not to retaliate  immediately for any Israeli violence while it weighs  Palestinian leader Mahmoud Abbas's ceasefire with Israel.
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Hamas yesterday promised vengeance against Israel for its assassination of one of the Palestinian group&#39;s members in the Syrian capital of Damascus.
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The Palestinian militant group Hamas has urged its supporters to boycott next month&#39;s election of a new leader of the Palestinian Authority.
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Hamas said on Friday it would not join any   Palestinian unity government that recognized Israel, rebuffing   President Mahmoud Abbas who told the United Nations any future   coalition would do so and also renounce violence.
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Hamas ruled out any truce with Israel Sunday and repeated its desire to destroy the Jewish state, rejecting what had appeared to be more conciliatory comments by one of the Islamic militant group&#39;s leaders.
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Middle East power brokers the European Union, Russia, United Nations and United States expressed concern over ongoing Palestinian violence and reaffirmed an economic and diplomatic boycott on the Hamas-led Palestinian government.
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Russia on Tuesday told Hamas leader  Khaled Meshaal it will try to influence Western powers into  lifting an aid embargo on the Palestinian administration.
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Hamas leader Khaled Meshaal arrived in Moscow on Monday for talks aimed at lobbying Russia to push for an end to a Western aid embargo on the Palestinian government.