Iraq asks donors for rebuilding funds
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up to $125 billion (70 billion pounds) as the only way to relieve Iraq of its crushing financial burden. Minister Barham Salih told the donors on Wednesday.
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Senior Iraqi officials here on Wednesday called on the international community to make more efforts on debt relief and helping speed up the country&#39;s reconstruction process in spite of its unstable security situation.
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Iraq&#39;s children are in dire straits, UNICEF said on Wednesday as it appealed for 42 million dollars to help those caught up in the horrors of sectarian killings, economic insecurity and mass migration.
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Iraq urged international donors on Wednesday to live up to their promises on funding for reconstruction work, which has been stalled by violence, saying it was the most effective way to fight extremism.
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Iraqis were promised billions of  dollars in mainly American aid to rebuild their country after  last year's U.S.-led invasion, but mounting violence has choked  reconstruction spending to almost nothing.
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Donor nations wrapped up a two-day meeting Thursday with pledges to speed up projects to rebuild Iraq possibly by using more Iraqis to implement
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TOKYO Iraqi leaders hope some much-needed reconstruction money will be freed up now that a two-day meeting of donor nations has finished in Tokyo.
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An international conference on Iraq  reconstruction began on Wednesday with a call from host Japan  for donors to honor their pledges to help rebuild the country,  a process that is being stalled by violence and insurgency.
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Foreign donors pledge $7.6bn to help rebuild Lebanon, as clashes in Beirut leave two people dead, reports say.
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The Bush administration asked Congress on Tuesday for permission to transfer nearly $3.5 billion from Iraqi water, sewer and electricity projects to pressing security, economic and electoral
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US Deputy Secretary of State Richard Armitage, left, chats with Iraqi Minister of Planning Mahdi al-Hafidh, center, and Iraqi Minister of Electricity Ayham al-Samarrai, prior to the start of a 55-nation Iraqi reconstruction donors&#39; conference in Tokyo
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United Nations -- The UN Security Council November 30 asked Secretary-General Kofi Annan to create a trust fund to accept donations to support a UN protection force in Iraq.
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Interim Iraqi PM Iyad Allawi urges what he calls 'spectator' countries to help rebuild Iraq.
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Iraq&#39;s deputy prime minister on Wednesday called on the international community to increase the flow of aid and speed up the implementation of projects to help rebuild the war-torn country.
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Iraq may be facing a deadly civil war, but the Iraqi government is initiating major, costly repairs to its diplomatic building in Washington and expanding its real estate holdings here.
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Saddam Hussein's regime in Iraq wanted foreign cash to build thousands of concrete bunkers to bury dead Kurds, an Australian inquiry into abuses of the UN oil-for-food programme has heard.
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Iraqi interim Prime Minister Ayad Allawi has pleaded with other countries to help Iraq reduce or eliminate its foreign debt and to join the multinational forces fighting the insurgents.