Abbas Fails to Win Palestinian Militant Truce Pledge
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Palestinian leader Mahmoud Abbas failed at  talks with militants on Wednesday to win a commitment to end  attacks on Israelis in the run-up to Jan. 9 elections for a  replacement to Yasser Arafat, political sources said.
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GAZA CITY, Gaza Strip -- Militant groups behind many suicide bombings dismissed a call from interim Palestinian leader Mahmoud Abbas on Tuesday to halt attacks in the days leading up to a Jan. 9 election 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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Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas rejected demands on Wednesday by Hamas rivals for control of the breached Gaza-Egypt border and told the Islamist group to "end its coup in Gaza".
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RAMALLAH, West Bank  - Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas said on Monday he would press on with early elections as a truce between his security forces and the Hamas government threatened to unravel in the Gaza Strip.
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Israel looks powerless to stop the barrage of rockets from Hamas-ruled Gaza. The Islamic militants, choked by a blockade of their territory, find it increasingly difficult to hold on to power. And moderate Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas is facing growing pressure to suspend peace talks because of Israel's strikes in Gaza.
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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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Mahmoud Abbas, Abu Mazin, has escaped a failed assassination attempt on Sunday evening after three gunmen broke into the tent where condolences are offered for the late Palestinian President Yasser Arafat in Gaza and chanted slogans deploring Abbas and
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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 interim peace deals with   Israel, two of his aides said on Sunday.
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GAZA CITY, Gaza Strip -- Islamic militant groups behind many suicide bombings dismissed yesterday a call from Mahmoud Abbas, the interim Palestinian leader, to halt attacks in the run-up to a Jan. 9 election to replace Yasser Arafat.
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GAZA CITY -- Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas, confronting a brazen challenge to his authority, fired three top security commanders yesterday and issued a warning to Hamas after members of the militant Islamic group shelled Israeli settlements in the Gaza Strip in violation of a truce announced two days before.
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RAMALLAH, West Bank  - Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas on Monday vowed to press on with early elections as a truce between his security forces and the Hamas government threatened to unravel in the Gaza Strip.
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RAMALLAH, West Bank  - Mahmoud Abbas's campaign to  succeed Yasser Arafat wound up on a sour note on Friday as he  canceled a stop in Arab East Jerusalem because Israeli security  would have embarrassed him.
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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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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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A ceasefire between Israel and militants in Gaza took hold on Sunday and Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert promised restraint in response to early Palestinian truce violations.
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Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas said Thursday that militant groups promised to suspend attacks on Israel in hopes of ending a nearly 2-month-long Israeli crackdown in the Gaza Strip.