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Ramallah (Palestinian Territories) (AFP) - Voters cast ballots Saturday for municipal councils in the Israeli-occupied West Bank in a rare democratic exercise following a decade and a half of delays to Palestinian elections.

Palestinians are voting in local elections in the occupied West Bank

Head of Iraq's Sadrist movement, cleric Moqtada al-Sadr announced on Friday the suspension of negotiations over the election of a new president. Sadr had been negotiating with the rival Coordination Framework over the elections, which are set for Monday. His announcement came a day after reports said his representative, as…

Ramallah (Palestinian Territories) (AFP) - The Palestine Liberation Organization meets Sunday to elect key leadership figures tasked with keeping up the struggle for statehood, at a gathering which may hint at a potential successor for president Mahmud Abbas.

A process to reconcile the Palestinian factions has begun, said Algerian Foreign Minister Ramtane Lamamra. Last month, Algeria said that it would host the inter-Palestinian talks. "The journey to Palestinian reconciliation has started and Algeria has a long experience in bringing the Palestinians together," he told a news conference in…

Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas asked Israeli Defense Minister Benny Gantz to release 25 prisoners who have been detained since Oslo Accords in 1993, according to Palestinian sources. The Ynet website said that Abbas passed a request to Gantz during their second meeting about a month ago. Two sources familiar with…

The PA has been violently obstructing prisoner release celebrations and confiscating party banners in recent months.

Palestinian factions did not achieve any breakthrough in the reconciliation talks held in Algeria because no faction presented new visions, according to a Palestinian source. The source indicated that Fatah and Hamas maintain their previous positions, noting that nothing new is achieved. He stressed that the Algerian officials listened deeply…