Ramallah: Israel has stripped Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas of VIP status and given him a watered-down travel permit that is valid for just two months, Palestinian officials charged on Sunday. The officials said that Abbas complained about the permit at an internal meeting of his Fatah Party last week. In a speech, Abbas said the new permit, similar to those required for Palestinian labourers entering Israel, was a reflection of...
10:24 AM, Jan 16, 2012
Paris: Palestinians raised their flag at the headquarters of the UN cultural agency in Paris on Tuesday as the agency's 195th member, a historic move and symbolic boost for their push for an independent state. Cheers rose as the red, black, white and green flag went up in pouring rain under the gaze of Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas and UNESCO Director-General Irina Bokova. She welcomed Palestine without mentioning the US...
01:07 AM, Dec 14, 2011
United Nations: The UN Security Council's admissions committee on Friday forwarded to the 15-nation body its report on the Palestinian request for full UN membership, the council president told. "We held a meeting of the committee on admissions and the committee approved the report and forwarded it to the Security Council the report on the admission of Palestine to the United Nations," said Portugal's UN Ambassador Jone Filipe Moraes Cabral,...
03:07 AM, Nov 12, 2011
Paris: The United Nations' cultural agency granted the Palestinians full membership on Monday, a step forward in their long-running efforts to achieve recognition before the world as an independent state. The United Nations Educational Scientific and Cultural Organisation (UNESCO) became the first UN agency to welcome the Palestinians as a full member since President Mahmoud Abbas applied for full membership of the United Nations on September 23. A huge cheer...
11:40 PM, Oct 31, 2011
United Nations: Mahmoud Abbas' bold bid for UN recognition of Palestinian statehood is doomed to fail but has won him admiration at home and re-energised international efforts to seek a negotiated settlement. Thousands of jubilant, flag-waving Palestinians watching on outdoor screens across the West Bank, cheered on their president on Friday as he submitted his historic request for a UN nod. In Nablus, the crowd roared ecstatically when Abbas, known...
12:50 PM, Sep 24, 2011
United Nations: Defying US and Israeli opposition, Palestinians asked the United Nations on Friday to accept them as a member state, sidestepping nearly two decades of troubled negotiations in the hope this dramatic move on the world stage would re-energize their quest for an independent homeland. In the West Bank, the core of that hoped-for state, a Palestinian man was shot dead in a clash with Israeli soldiers and settlers...
09:36 PM, Sep 23, 2011
United Nations: Palestinian leader Mahmoud Abbas will make his speech at the UN General Assembly demanding for recognition of Palestine as a member state. The Indian Prime Minister is also likely to support that demand, while the US President has suggested that the proposal should be vetoed upon. The threat of a US veto hangs like the sword of Damocles over his head, but Abbas is determined that the United...
08:39 AM, Sep 23, 2011
Jerusalem: Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has offered to meet Palestinian leader Mahmoud Abbas one-on-one every two weeks to discuss "the agenda for a peace agreement," he said on Sunday. "I believe that what is needed now in order to move the process is not multiplicity of [negotiation] teams but rather decisions of leaders," he said at the start of Israel's weekly Cabinet meeting. The two sides resumed face-to-face negotiations...
11:30 AM, Sep 06, 2010
Gilani made the remark during his meeting with Palestinian President. ...
10:35 AM, Feb 13, 2010
In retaliation Israel fired missile at car in Rafah town, killing a Hamas militant. ...
12:04 PM, Feb 04, 2009
Palestine's Mahmoud Abbas swore in an emergency Cabinet as the Fatah-Hamas battle intensified. ...
08:32 PM, Jun 17, 2007
A Palestinian government of National Unity is expected to be announced in the coming days. ...
12:26 PM, Mar 12, 2007
Palestinian PM on Sunday rejected President Mahmoud Abbas's decision to hold early presidential and legislative elections in Palestine. ...
10:39 PM, Dec 17, 2006
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