Yasser Arafat

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Palestinian hopes dim 5 years after Arafat death

AP News 90 days ago

5 years after Arafat's death, path to statehood dim for divided Palestinians The tens of thousands of Palestinians who thronged Yasser Arafat's grave Wednesday to mark the fifth anniversary of his death had a lot more to mourn than just their late ...

Abbas slams Israel on settlements

AFP Global Edition 90 days ago

Palestinian president Mahmud Abbas stood by his demand for a complete Israeli settlement freeze on Wednesday as he addressed tens of thousands of Palestinians gathered to honour Yasser Arafat. The fifth anniversary of the iconic leader's death finds Palestinians more divided than ...

Palestinians remember Arafat

AFP Global Edition 91 days ago

Tens of thousands of Palestinians gathered Wednesday to honour their iconic leader Yasser Arafat, with president Mahmud Abbas due to address the rally amid a brewing political crisis. The fifth anniversary of Arafat's death finds Palestinians more divided than ever and his ...

Hamas said to ban Arafat death commemorations

AFP Global Edition 91 days ago

The Islamist Hamas movement ruling Gaza has banned all public commemoration of Yasser Arafat's death this year, officials with the rival secular Fatah group said on Tuesday. Wednesday will mark five years since Arafat, the revered Palestinian leader and founder of Fatah, ...

Israel marks 14th anniversary of Rabin killing

AFP Global Edition 103 days ago

Israel on Thursday marked the 14th anniversary of the assassination of prime minister Yitzhak Rabin at the hands of a Jewish extremist opposed to peace with the Palestinians. "Yitzhak's greatness was in his honesty as a leader, both in war and peace," ...

Obama got his Nobel for just a down payment

Las Vegas Sun 119 days ago

Prize is more about what we expect from him than about what heÕs done Some would say the decision was dynamite. Many others would say the awarding of the Nobel Peace Prize to President Barack Obama was explosive. Whatever the adjective used ...

Israeli President Peres taken ill: medics

AFP Global Edition 150 days ago

Israeli President Shimon Peres fainted during a conference in Tel Aviv late Saturday but quickly regained consciousness, medics said. The 86-year-old Nobel laureate was taken to the Tel Hashomer hospital for tests following his collapse. His personal physician, Rafi Valdan, told the ...

A look at some of the newly elected Fatah leaders

AP News 183 days ago

A look at some of the newly elected Fatah leaders A look at some of the main figures elected to the 23-member Central Committee of the Western-backed Fatah organization. ___ Marwan Barghouti, 50, a prominent leader of the last Palestinian uprising, is ...

Fatah overhauls party leadership: official

AFP Global Edition 183 days ago

Palestinian president Mahmud Abbas's Fatah party has overhauled its leadership, electing a raft of new members to its ruling body in its first election in 20 years, a party official said Tuesday. The party congress returned only three incumbent members of the ...

Fatah party holds first internal vote in 20 years

AFP Global Edition 186 days ago

Fatah members were on Friday preparing their first leadership election for 20 years, hoping to breathe new life into the secular Palestinian party weakened by infighting, mismanagement and a trouncing by the Islamist Hamas movement. Delegates to the party's congress in the ...

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