US extends visa ban on Palestinian officials before UN General Assembly

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• Al Jazeera
  high factuality Qatar Government · state

  Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas is among those barred for the second year in a row.

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• New York Times
  high factuality NYT Co (Sulzberger family) · corporate

  The move would prevent Mahmoud Abbas, the leader of two governing Palestinian groups, from traveling to the United States next week for the United Nations General Assembly.

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• France 24
  high factuality France Médias Monde · state-funded

  The United States has denied Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas a visa to attend next week's UN General Assembly in New York, a source familiar with the matter said on Wednesday. The State Department separately said it would deny visas to Palestinian officials, citing failures t

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