Reuters - The Palestine Liberation Organization rejected Hamas's governing platform on Wednesday but President Mahmoud Abbas said he would present the Islamic group's proposed cabinet to parliament nonetheless.

AP - Israel indicted two West Bank Palestinians on Tuesday on charges of belonging to al-Qaida and plotting to carry out a double bombing for the group in Jerusalem — the first time Palestinians have been formally linked to the terror network.

AP - For the past two months, Ehud Olmert has presided over Israel's Cabinet meetings from a seat at the side of the table, leaving the prime minister's chair empty as though Ariel Sharon were still in charge. But since becoming acting prime minister after Sharon's devastating Jan. 4 stroke, Olmert has quickly put his mark on the government in what has become an audition for the top job.

Yvonne Lee - AHN Staff Reporter (AHN) - The European Union gives $77.8 million in assistance to the most impoverished Palestinians in the West Bank and Gaza. It is scheduled to hand over an additional $73 million to pay the salaries of Palestinian Authority officials and energy expenses....

Reuters - U.S. Interior Secretary Gale Norton said on Monday said that it was "increasingly likely" that bird flu would be detected in the United States as early as this year.

Reuters - The H5N1 strain of bird flu in humans has evolved into two separate strains, U.S. researchers reported on Monday, which could complicate developing a vaccine and preventing a pandemic.

AP - Ex-Israeli fighter pilot Gil Fogiel rarely talked about being a prisoner of war in Syria until he sat across a campfire in the middle of the desert with people he long considered his worst enemies — Iraqis, Iranians and Palestinians.

AP - Ex-Israeli fighter pilot Gil Fogiel rarely talked about being a prisoner of war in Syria until he sat across a campfire in the middle of the desert with people he long considered his worst enemies — Iraqis, Iranians and Palestinians.

AP - Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas said Israeli and Palestinian negotiators would hold an emergency meeting Sunday to resolve a standoff over Gaza's main cargo crossing.

AFP - Moderate Palestinian leader Mahmud Abbas is set to give his reluctant approval to a narrow Hamas-led government following the Islamic militant group's upset victory in January parliamentary elections, aides said.

AP - Several Fatah officials called on President Mahmoud Abbas to resign and dissolve the Palestinian Authority to protest Israel's raid of a West Bank prison earlier this week, party activists said Friday.

Julie Farby - AHN Staff Writer Ramallah, West Bank (AHN) -In protest of Israel's raid on a West Bank prison earlier this week, party officials announce several officials in Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas' Fatah Party have called on him to resign and dissolve the Palestinian Authority. The...

AP - Several officials in Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas' Fatah Party have called on him to resign and dissolve the Palestinian Authority to protest Israel's raid of a West Bank prison earlier this week, party officials said Friday.

AFP - Islamic militant group Hamas is set to take all key posts in a new Palestinian cabinet in the face of continued failure of coalition talks with other factions.

AP - The Palestinians' incoming prime minister suggested Hamas could one day make peace with Israel, but undercut his statement by saying his militant group wouldn't disarm or recognize Israel unless it recognized a Palestinian state within boundaries the Israelis reject.

AFP - The Palestinians accused Israel of working to destroy the Palestinian Authority after a raid on a West Bank prison that boosted acting premier Ehud Olmert's prospects of re-election.

AP - The Palestinian economy will be devastated if Israel and the international community follow through on threats to cut off financial assistance once Hamas assumes power, the World Bank warned in a report Thursday.

Reuters - A Palestinian militant leader seized by Israel in a raid on a West Bank jail denied any responsibility for his group's 2001 assassination of an Israeli cabinet minister, his lawyer said on Thursday.

An Israeli soldier is killed in a fierce gun battle with Palestinian militants in Jenin, in the West Bank.

AP - Israeli troops surrounded a house in the West Bank town of Jenin on Thursday, exchanging fire with four Palestinian militants inside, the army and Palestinian witnesses said.