NEW DELHI, Oct 6 – President of the Palestinian Authority Mahmoud Abbas along with Foreign Minister Riyad Al-Maliki will head to India’s capital New Delhi late Monday, on an official three-day state visit aimed at overseeing plans for a Palestinian embassy to India.

RAMALLAH, Oct. 6 – An independent Palestinian academic said Monday that he will stand for presidential elections if they were held in January.Abdel Satar Qassem, politics professor in Nablus’ Al-Najjah University, made the decision as the Hamas-dominated Palestinian Legislative Council (PLC), or parliament, refused to extend Abbas’term after it ends …

GAZA, Oct. 6 – Palestinian lawmakers from the Islamic Hamas movement in Gaza decided Monday that the presidential term of President Mahmoud Abbas would legally end on Jan. 8, 2009.