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...But Abbas and his fellow Muslim activists have yet to select candidates or establish how they would finance a campaign....
...Nevine Ahmed, a mother of six, said she was heading to her family home in Khan Younis in southern Gaza, but that it also had been under bombardment....
...Ibrahim was a chemist, and Ahmed, an avid traveller and law student....
...“I have been coming here every day for three days and I wait and nothing happens,” said Rasmeya Ahmed, a dual Palestinian-Jordanian national. “The road is dangerous and there are no cars....
...Among them, Ahmed Arafat, a farmer from Beit Hanoun in the north-east of Gaza, said he fled with his wife, mother and five children early on Friday to escape shelling from Israeli tanks....
...President Mahmoud Abbas, now 85, has refused to hold fresh polls. Despite Hamas’ reputation for ruling with an iron fist and stifling dissent, it is increasingly popular in the West Bank....
...People familiar with the matter in Islamabad said the government had resolved to send General Qamar Javed Bajwa, the army chief, to try to smooth over relations with Riyadh....
...The king told Palestinian leader Mahmoud Abbas in a phone call in January that the kingdom remained committed to the Palestinian cause and Palestinian rights, according to a readout published by the state...
...On Sunday, Iran’s foreign ministry spokesman Abbas Mousavi dismissed Mr Pompeo’s comments as false....
...More robust criticism has come from Ahmed Aboul Gheit, secretary-general of the Arab League, who said on Wednesday that a “first reading of the plan indicated a big discarding of Palestinian rights”....
...Faisal Abbas, editor-in-chief of Arab News, a Saudi newspaper, said the deployment would be “read in the kingdom and in most parts of the region as yet another sign that the Trump administration better understands...
...Additional reporting by Aime Williams in Washington, Ahmed Alomran in Riyadh and David Bond, Jim Pickard and Anjli Raval in London...
...Tate & Lyle chief executive Javed Ahmed is to step down after nine eventful years and will be succeeded by Nick Hampton, the finance director who joined the ingredients group in the middle of a crisis three...
...Tate & Lyle saw profits rise by nearly a quarter but sales drop in its latest financial year, the final set of results under longstanding chief executive Javed Ahmed, who stood down at the end of March....
...Nick Hampton, the former finance director who last month replaced Javed Ahmed as chief executive, on Thursday outlined a three-pronged plan to “accelerate portfolio development, to simplify the business...
...“We have made a strong start to the year, with good performance across the group, chief executive Javed Ahmed said....
...Javed Ahmed, chief executive, said the group, which has been through a turnround after a collapse in sucralose prices, had made a “strong start to the year” and raised the dividend for the first time since...
...“We don’t want to have to choose sides, we want to be neutral,” says Ahmed Yousef, a Hamas veteran close to the current leadership....
...Ahmed Aboul Gheit, the Arab League’s secretary-general, said it would “fuel extremism and a resort to violence”. Israeli officials have so far shaken off the concerns....
...For several months US generals have been descending on the Pakistan army’s general headquarters (GHQ) in Rawalpindi to meet the army chief General Qamar Javed Bajwa....
...There have been reports that the Saudi crown prince has pressured Mahmoud Abbas, the Palestinian president, to accept concessions as part of those efforts....
...Three months later, he fired Khaled Fawzy as director of the General Intelligence Directorate, replacing him with Major General Abbas Kamel, considered one of Mr Sisi’s closest confidants....
...Javed Ahmed, Tate & Lyle chief executive, said: This has been a year of strong performance....
...Javed Ahmed, chief executive of the group best known for its Splenda sweeteners, said on Thursday: “Until we have clarity on the nature of any proposed changes [to Nafta], it is difficult to estimate what...
...Journalists have asked the new army chief Qamar Javed Bajwa to return to past traditions and become more media friendly....
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