Abbas sees talks with Hamas at "dead end": official
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RAMALLAH, West Bank  - Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas has told Jordan that talks on a unity government with Hamas have hit a "dead end" and he will pursue other options, a senior Palestinian official said on Tuesday.
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RAMALLAH, West Bank  - President Mahmoud Abbas appealed to Washington on Saturday to soften objections to his Palestinian unity government with Hamas, telling a top envoy he had cut the best deal he could, aides said.
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JERICHO, West Bank  - Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas, after meeting U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice on a new push for Middle East peace, said on Thursday talks on a unity government with Hamas had reached a "dead end".
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Mahmoud Abbas, the Palestine Liberation Organisation chairman, is seeking a halt to violent attacks by militant Palestinian factions as a first step towards restoring the long
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Abbas claims Arafat's mantle, but peace may be no closer
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Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas is expected on Monday to urge Hamas Islamists to agree to early elections, cede control of the Gaza Strip and hold talks with his Fatah faction, a Palestinian official said.
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Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas said Wednesday his efforts to reach a power-sharing agreement with the militant group Hamas have collapsed, raising concerns a deadlock will lead to more factional fighting after deadly weekend clashes.
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Palestine Television quoted President  Mahmoud Abbas as saying in an interview Sunday that he is very  close to clinching an agreement with militants on halting  attacks on Israelis.
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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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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, two of his aides said on Sunday.
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Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas held inconclusive talks on forming a unity government with Prime Minister Ismail Haniyeh on Sunday and officials said the process may take longer than expected.
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Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas said on Saturday he was considering options open to him after the failure of talks with the governing Hamas faction over creating a unity government with the militant group.
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RAMALLAH, West Bank  - Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas, in his first speech since Islamist Hamas took over the Gaza Strip, said on Wednesday there could be no reconciliation with a group he described as "traitors".
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GAZA CITY - New Palestine Liberation Organisation leader Mahmud Abbas was Wednesday wrapping up a visit to the Gaza Strip after failing to persuade the radical Islamist group Hamas to join the political mainstream.
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Efforts to form a Palestinian government acceptable to the West have gone "back to zero," Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas said Saturday, a day after Hamas said a coalition government that recognizes Israel is unacceptable.
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JERICHO, West Bank -- Mahmoud Abbas, the Palestinian Authority president, told Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice yesterday that his long struggle to replace the Hamas-led government with a more moderate coalition had reached a "dead end," complicating the goal of renewed peace talks with Israel.
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RAMALLAH, West Bank  - Palestinian President   Mahmoud Abbas will not travel to Gaza on Tuesday as planned to   try to revive talks with Hamas on forming a unity government,   his spokesman said on Monday.