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Fayyad loses finance role in new govt
A Palestinian leader widely credited by the West with introducing transparency to a corruption-plagued and donor-dependent economy lost his job as finance minister in a government reshuffle Wednesday. Although he is relinquishing the treasury (...)

17 - 05 - 2012
Israel raids Palestinian TV stations
Israeli soldiers raided two Palestinian television stations in the occupied West Bank on Wednesday, seizing transmitters the military said were interfering with air traffic communications. Palestinian Prime Minister Salam Fayyad visited one of the (...)

01 - 03 - 2012
US envoy steps up bid to save ME talks
US envoy George Mitchell Thursday stepped up the pace of efforts to save Middle East peace talks launched four weeks ago, saying he was seeking common ground to avert their collapse. Former Senator Mitchell was speaking after meeting with (...)

01 - 10 - 2010
Palestinians may reject direct talks
Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas will tell the Arab League on Thursday indirect talks with Israel have not progressed enough to justify face-to-face peace negotiations, a Palestinian official said on Wednesday. “Abbas will tell them that, until (...)

29 - 07 - 2010
Fatah says no direct Mideast talks for now
The Palestinian president's Fatah party said Thursday there should be no move to face-to-face Middle East peace talks sought by the United States without progress in the indirect talks it is mediating. Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas, due to (...)

16 - 07 - 2010
Israeli official apologizes for embarrassing Biden
Palestinians told US Vice President Joe Biden Wednesday that Israel's new plan to build 1,600 homes for Jewish settlers challenged Washington's efforts to get indirect peace talks underway. In Jerusalem, an Israeli cabinet minister apologized for (...)

11 - 03 - 2010
Abbas vows to resist US pressure
Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas said he will resist renewed US pressure to resume peace talks unless Israel first fully halts settlement building in the occupied West Bank. Abbas's remarks to Egypt's Voice of the Arabs radio appeared to pour (...)

15 - 01 - 2010
Abbas aide condemns killing of six Palestinians and blames Israel for escalating violence
An aide to Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas condemned Israel"s killing of six Palestinians on Saturday and said the Jewish state is escalating the violence. Nabil Abu Rdainah, the aide, told Reuters that "this grave Israeli escalation shows (...)

26 - 12 - 2009
Abbas confirms vote to be postponed
Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas has said presidential and legislative elections scheduled for January will be postponed, confirming that he has accepted advice not to hold the vote. Abbas, speaking to BBC Arabic, said the Palestinian leadership (...)

21 - 11 - 2009
Trade revives as Palestinian cities reconnect
Businesses in normal countries take getting around for granted. They can distribute, export and attract workers and customers from wide areas. In the Israeli-occupied West Bank, access to more than half of the land is restricted. Israel has (...)

30 - 08 - 2009
Netanyahu's speech dashes peace hopes
World powers should isolate Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu after he unveiled tough terms for a Middle East peace accord, an aide to Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas said on Monday. In a major policy speech on Sunday, Netanyahu (...)

16 - 06 - 2009
Abbas, Olmert to meet amid doubts of a deal
Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert will meet Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas on Tuesday in a last-minute bid to clinch an agreement a day before his Kadima party holds an election to replace him. “Olmert will make a last-ditch effort to reach a (...)

17 - 09 - 2008
Palestinian laws get overhaul with little oversight
President Mahmoud Abbas and his government are rewriting economic, social and security laws for the Palestinian territories with little public oversight, Palestinian and Western officials say. Reuters has obtained hundreds of Abbas decrees and a (...)

30 - 08 - 2008
Palestinians bury Darwish in emotional funeral
Palestinians gave their national poet Mahmoud Darwish what amounted to a state funeral in the West Bank city of Ramallah on Wednesday, mourning a man who articulated their sense of loss, exile and defiance. Around 10,000 people joined the (...)

14 - 08 - 2008
Abbas rejects Israeli PM land swap proposal
Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas has rejected an Israeli peace proposal because it does not provide for a contiguous Palestinian state with Jerusalem as its capital, Abbas's office said on Tuesday. Nabil Abu Rdainah, Abbas's spokesman, told the (...)

13 - 08 - 2008
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