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/ 8 February 2006
The foreign minister of one Muslim country, Indonesia, says radical groups are exploiting genuine public anger over the prophet Muhammad cartoons for their own ends. A United States military spokesperson also says extremist groups may be inciting the protests.
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/ 13 September 2005
Palestinian police on Tuesday blocked off abandoned Jewish settlements and chased after scavengers in a first attempt to impose law and order after chaotic celebrations of Israel’s pull-out from Gaza, but the overwhelmed forces were unable to halt looting of the area’s prized greenhouses.
Israeli troops pulled away from the West Bank town of Jericho on Wednesday, furling their national flag and dismantling a roadblock, but the formal handover to Palestinian security control was delayed at the last minute because of a dispute over the signing of documents, officials said.
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/ 28 January 2005
Hundreds of Palestinian police deployed in the Gaza Strip on Friday, a day after the new Palestinian leadership banned civilians from carrying weapons and Israel’s prime minister said conditions are ripe for a ”historic” breakthrough toward peace.
But the ruling Fatah party was overwhelmingly defeated by the militant group Hamas in local elections on Thursday.
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/ 1 November 2004
An ailing Yasser Arafat entered a fourth day of emergency treatment on Monday at a French military hospital specialising in blood disorders, but the cause of his precipitous decline in health remained unexplained. Palestinian officials say their leader’s condition has improved markedly since he was rushed to Paris on Friday.
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