Abbas closes PLO office in Amman
Palestinian president Mahmud Abbas has ordered the closure of the PLO’s political bureau in Jordan headed by exiled Fatah leader Faruq Kaddumi, the Palestinian ambassador has said. The decision came after the Tunis-based Kaddumi, Hamas supremo Khaled Meshaal and other Palestinian militants based in Syria issued a statement branding Abbas’s call for early elections as “illegal”. Full Story