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Search for: Offline summarization (match summaries) Hybrid summarization Online summarization Offline summarization (match articles) U.S. World Finance Sci/Tech Entertainment Sports View Today's Images Back to Archive Index About Newsblaster About today's run Newsblaster in Press Academic Papers Article Sources: seattletimes. nwsource.com (197 articles) washingtonpost.com (161 articles) boston.com (152 articles) baltimoresun.com (113 articles) latimes.com (112 articles) news.bbc.co.uk (108 articles) sfgate.com (108 articles) cbc.ca (108 articles) dallasnews.com (88 articles) ft.com (60 articles) suntimes.com (59 articles) nypost.com (55 articles) abcnews.go.com (55 articles) timesonline.co.uk (46 articles) cnn.com (21 articles) foxnews.com (15 articles) business. timesonline.co.uk (14 articles) wired.com (12 articles) cbsnews.com (12 articles) sportsillustrated. cnn.com (4 articles) nature.com (3 articles) money.cnn.com (2 articles) haaretz.com (2 articles) opinion. latimes.com (2 articles) travel. timesonline.co.uk (2 articles) blogs.ft.com (2 articles) weblogs. baltimoresun.com (1 article)	Mahmoud Abbas willing to negotiate with rival Hamas Summary from multiple countries, from articles in English JERUSALEM Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas said Wednesday that he would agree to talks with the militant Islamic group Hamas, an apparent about-face that reflects dwindling hope for a U.S.-brokered peace with Israel. (article 5) Hamas embraced the offer to end a year-old breach, a move that could jeopardize the Israeli and Western support that props up Abbas' more secular administration. (article 5) The Palestinian leader opened a televised speech from the West Bank city of Ramallah by defending peace talks with Israel that were revived in November. (article 5) Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas called today for renewed dialogue with Hamas after insisting for months that the Islamic militants relinquish control of Gaza first. (article 6) Abbas said in a speech that the Palestinians must have national dialogue " to end the internal division that harms our people, (our) cause. (article 6) Abbas won an election to succeed Yasser Arafat, who died in 2004, but Hamas swept his Fatah Party out of power in a 2006 election. (article 6) At a time when both countries place enormous emphasis on cultivating and nurturing Palestinian moderates, denying young people access to Western education is unbelievably shortsighted. (article 1) The Israeli Supreme Court has called on the government to reconsider its almost total ban on Palestinian students leaving the Gaza Strip to study abroad. (article 3) Other summaries about this story: Summary from the United Kingdom, from articles in English (3 articles) [compare] Summary from United States, from articles in English (4 articles) [compare] Event tracking: Track this story's development in time Story keywords Gaza, Hamas, Abbas, Israel, Palestinian Source articles Students trapped in Gaza (L.A. Times, 06/03/2008, 487 words) Four Gaza students get US visas (BBC News, 06/04/2008, 245 words) Israel court condemns student ban (BBC News, 06/03/2008, 342 words) Palestinian leader urges new dialogue with Hamas (seattletimes.nwsource.com, 06/04/2008, 662 words) Mahmoud Abbas willing to negotiate with rival Hamas (L.A. Times, 06/05/2008, 521 words) Palestinian president calls for renewed dialogue with Hamas - (baltimoresun.com, 06/04/2008, 315 words) Abbas-Olmert in new peace talks (BBC News, 06/02/2008, 89 words) blaster@cs.columbia.edu