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  • The Islamic militant group Hamas has rejected the rival Fatah faction's nominee for prime minister, threatening a delicate reconciliation agreement signed six weeks ago in Cairo.

    Dispute Jeopardizes Palestinian Unity Deal 2011

  • Some viewers of that film, especially older ones who remembered the faction's crimes, said it made the gang's thuggery look attractive and offered too little of the victims 'point of view.

    For Edgar Ramirez, challenge of playing Carlos the Jackal was making him human Paul Farhi 2010

  • Given the stakes, this would be a good time for the US and Europe to decline the ayatollah's kind invitation to be his faction's re-election agent in Iran.

    Iran: time for cool heads | Editorial 2012

  • The Islamic militant group Hamas has rejected the rival Fatah faction's nominee for prime minister, threatening a delicate reconciliation agreement signed six weeks ago in Cairo.

    Dispute Jeopardizes Palestinian Unity Deal 2011

  • The Islamic militant group Hamas has rejected the rival Fatah faction's nominee for prime minister, threatening a delicate reconciliation agreement signed six weeks ago in Cairo.

    Dispute Jeopardizes Palestinian Unity Deal 2011

  • Artemio is the only member of the Maoist-inspired faction's central committee who is still alive and at large.

    Shining Path leader Artemio 'wounded during capture attempt' 2012

  • As an aside, I have a friend of mine who used to write for the old Mexico City Times, which was financed by one faction within the PRI, and whose raison d'etre was to push that faction's agenda ... and give cover to reporters who picked up their information, who could at least claim they got it from a "foreign" news source.

    The News 2009

  • It may have been one faction's way of denying the award to Michael Moore's Bowling for Columbine, but Jackass accrued an increasing number of votes in each round of the voting, enough to deny Moore the award, which eventually went to Standing in the Shadows of Motown.

    Marshall Fine: HuffPost Review: Jackass 3D Marshall Fine 2010

  • As an aside, I have a friend of mine who used to write for the old Mexico City Times, which was financed by one faction within the PRI, and whose raison d'etre was to push that faction's agenda ... and give cover to reporters who picked up their information, who could at least claim they got it from a "foreign" news source.

    The News 2009

  • The Islamic militant group Hamas has rejected the rival Fatah faction's nominee for prime minister, threatening a delicate reconciliation agreement signed six weeks ago in Cairo.

    Dispute Jeopardizes Palestinian Unity Deal 2011

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