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...These would bury a Fatah led by Mahmoud Abbas, the discredited Palestinian leader who has limited powers and has just postponed polls again....
...Mahmoud Abbas, president of the Palestinian Authority, has boycotted talks since Mr Trump decided to move the US embassy from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem, recognising all the Holy City, including the occupied...
...Mahmoud Abbas, president of the Palestinian Authority, who lost control of Gaza after the Fatah party lost elections to Hamas in 2006, has also demanded that he be included in any negotiations, said a Palestinian...
...They also want to begin positioning a successor to Mahmoud Abbas, the 82-year-old president of the Palestinian Authority, analysts say....
...The president has also shaken up the top ranks of the security forces. In October, he sacked Mahmoud Hegazy, his chief of staff, whose daughter is married to one of the president’s sons....
...But last month Hamas agreed to cede powers to President Mahmoud Abbas’ Fatah-backed government....
...Still, Aaron David Miller, a former senior US adviser on the conflict, believes a deal is beyond reach: “The odds are slim to none and it has nothing to do with the US: [Palestinian leader Mahmoud] Abbas...
...In recent years, however, the populist policies of former president Mahmoud Ahmadi-Nejad — who held office from 2005 to 2013 — and the tightening of sanctions in 2011-2012 particularly slowed down Iran’s...
...Mahmoud Abbas, president of the Palestinian Authority, and Ban Ki-moon, UN secretary-general, were in Doha for talks as the Gulf state sought to revive its traditional role of regional mediator by using...
...There is a press picture of the former Iranian president, Mahmoud Ahmadi-Nejad, looking quizzically at the cylinder in its glass case....
...The two largest Palestinian political groups have drawn closer since last November’s war in Gaza, which ended in a ceasefire brokered by President Mohamed Morsi of Egypt....
...Analysts said that the role of Egypt and its president, Mohamed Morsi, in brokering the truce on Hamas’s behalf would help ensure its durability....
...There, with Kerry and Blair, Israeli president Shimon Peres and PA president Mahmoud Abbas listening, Munib took the stage with Yossi Vardi, an Israeli high-tech entrepreneur. “Enough is enough!”...
...Mahmoud Abbas is a spent force This was supposed to be the moment of Mahmoud Abbas, the veteran leader of the Palestine Liberation Organization and president of the Palestinian Authority....
...Mahmoud Abbas and his Fatah movement are pathetically irrelevant. Their foreign minister will be visiting Gaza as a member of an Arab League mission – a demeaning status indeed....
...Photos of Mr Morsi embracing his Iranian counterpart, Mahmoud Ahmadi-Nejad, a scene unimaginable under the rule of his deposed and now imprisoned predecessor Hosni Mubarak, graced newspaper front pages on...
...Egypt under Hosni Mubarak, its ousted president, along with Jordan and the Gulf states, was the champion of the pro-western Mahmoud Abbas and his Palestinian Authority in the West Bank which is committed...
...Mr Abbas, sidelined by Israel’s colonisation of the West Bank, struggles to seem relevant. This is of a piece with the reactionary world view of the Israeli prime minister....
...But a picture of the Pope kissing Ahmed Mohamed el-Tayeb, Imam of the Al-Azhar mosque in Cairo was withdrawn after widespread protest....
...Egypt has just mediated a reconciliation between Fatah, the Palestinian faction headed by Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas, and Hamas, the Islamist group that controls Gaza....
...He hosted secret talks in March between Israel’s president Shimon Peres and Palestinian president Mahmoud Abbas, it has been reported....
...“We are hoping to bring more visibility to our artists now,” says Yosr Ben Ammar of Kanvas, showing paintings by Mohamed Ben Slama....
...Mahmoud Abbas, the Palestinian Authority leader, congratulated Mr Obama but Hamas, the rival Palestinian organisation based in the Gaza Strip, said he did not deserve the award....
...Mirwais Azizi, an estranged business associate of Mr Farnood and the founder of the rival Azizi Bank in Kabul, has also poured money into Dubai real estate, with even more uncertain results....
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