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Abbas calls for elections
December 16, 2006
President Mahmoud Abbas called on Saturday (December 16) for fresh Palestinian parliamentary and presidential elections, raising the stakes after days of internal violence that has renewed fears of civil war. Internal tensions are at their worst in a decade after months of talks between the ruling Hamas Islamist movement and Abbas's Fatah faction on forging a unity cabinet foundered.
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