Abbas Wraps Up Campaign to Lead Palestinian Authority
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Mahmoud Abbas wrapped up his campaign for president of the Palestinian Authority today with a call for negotiations for Israel.
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Mahmoud Abbas was elected Palestinian Authority president by a wide margin Sunday, exit polls showed, giving him a decisive mandate to renew peace talks with Israel, rein in militants and try to end more than four years of Mideast bloodshed.
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RAMALLAH, WEST BANK - Interim Palestinian leader Mahmoud Abbas vowed on Saturday to lead his people to independent statehood, in his first official campaign speech before January&#39;s presidential election.
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Mahmoud Abbas, the acting Palestinian leader, called on his people to drop their weapons in the struggle for a state. His stance marks a clear change of strategy for peace with Israel after the death of Yasser Arafat last month.
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JERUSALEM -- Mahmoud Abbas, the Palestinian leader campaigning to succeed Yasser Arafat in elections next month, said in an interview published yesterday that the 4-year-old armed uprising against Israel was a mistake and must end.
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Five weeks before Palestinian Authority presidential elections, front-runner Mahmoud Abbas took a campaign swing - through the Arab world.
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RAMALLAH, West Bank  - Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas rejigged his government on Friday at the end of a month-long state of emergency declared when Hamas Islamists seized control of the Gaza Strip.
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Interim Palestine Liberation Organization leader Mahmoud Abbas is the clear front-runner in upcoming presidential elections, according to a poll released Sunday.
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Palestinian president Mahmud Abbas was leaving on a tour of European capitals in a bid to convince key allies to give a unity government a chance and ease a crippling aid freeze.
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RAMALLAH, West Bank -- Palestinians elected Mahmoud Abbas, longtime deputy leader of the Palestine Liberation Organization, as their new president yesterday by an overwhelming majority, according to several exit polls, giving him what analysts described as a broad mandate to demilitarize the four-year-old uprising and revive peace talks with Israel.
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RAMALLAH, West Bank  - Mahmoud Abbas was sworn in  as Palestinian president to succeed Yasser Arafat on Saturday,  but his call for a truce and talks were overshadowed by  Israel's decision to cut ties over a deadly militant attack.
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Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas made a last push Saturday to win European support for lifting a crippling international aid embargo in talks with French President Jacques Chirac.Comment
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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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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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Mahmoud Abbas won a vital vote from the Palestinians' dominant political faction approving his candidacy to succeed Yasir Arafat as Palestinian president.
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The man widely expected to succeed Yasser Arafat in next year&#39;s Palestinian elections, Mahmoud Abbas, yesterday appeared to win a power struggle in the dominant Fatah movement after a bloody gun battle in Gaza City.
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Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas ended his European tour Saturday without persuading any country to end crippling economic sanctions based on his power-sharing deal with the rival Islamic militant Hamas.Comment