/ Source: The Associated Press
Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas said Wednesday that talks with the ruling Hamas militant group on forming a more moderate coalition government have broken down.
Abbas also said a new Cabinet must be formed to end a recent surge in violence that claimed 10 lives in three days. He did not elaborate.
"There is no dialogue now," Abbas said at a news conference with Bahraini Foreign Minister Sheikh Khalid Bin Ahmed Al-Khalifa.
A preliminary coalition agreement announced on Sept. 11 "is over now, and we have to start from square one," he said.
