Donors pledge $7.4 billion to Palestinians
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An international donors' conference pledged $7.4 billion in aid to the Palestinians over the next three years, French Foreign Minister Bernard Kouchner said on Monday.
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The world rallied to the support of the embattled Palestinian government Monday, with leaders pledging hundreds of millions of dollars in immediate financial support and urging Israel to ease restrictions on movement in the West Bank and Gaza to make a recovery of the Palestinian economy possible.
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Dozens of countries met on Monday to pledge billions of dollars in aid to the Palestinians in support of Western-backed President Mahmoud Abbas, but disputes with Israel on settlements and checkpoints darkened the mood.
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International donors pledged more   than $940 million on Thursday for war-torn Lebanon's immediate   relief efforts, nearly double the target amount.
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President Bush vowed on Friday to use the next four years to help establish a Palestinian state, and he and British Prime Minister Tony Blair said they
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For the first time in four years, the donor nations that sustain the Palestinian economy have reason for optimism. For now, however, that optimism won't mean more money for the Palestinians.
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A BOWLING alley used by Jewish families has just discovered that one of its investors was... arch enemy Yasser Arafat. The Palestinian leader, who died last month, pumped Â£700,000 worth
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PARIS, Jan 25 (IPS) - Representatives of 50 industrial countries and  international institutions have pledged 7.6  billion dollars to a  recovery plan for Lebanon at a donor conference in Paris  Thursday. The  fresh aid certainly buys time for the embattled  government of Lebanese Prime Minister Fouad  Siniora, but it  remains doubtful if it can buy it peace.
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Donor countries promised nearly $10 billion to the Global Fund to fight AIDS, tuberculosis and malaria over the next three years at a meeting on Thursday.
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The Bush administration has decided to ask the U.S. Congress for funds aimed at bolstering security forces loyal to Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas, sources with knowledge of the plan said on Wednesday.
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"We will work to secure all basic needs for our people in Gaza"  The emergency government that Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas installed after Islamic militants seized control of Gaza reaped its first windfall on Monday, with the European Union promising to restore hundreds of millions of dollars in crucial aid.The EU traditionally has been the Palestinian Authority's largest donor, and the reinstatement of aid, cut off after the Islamic Hamas movement took power 15 months ago, could signal the beginning of the end to a crippling international boycott. Read more
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STOCKHOLM -- International donors pledged more than $940 million yesterday for war-torn Lebanon's immediate relief efforts, nearly double the target amount.
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The Bush administration yesterday resumed direct aid to the Palestinian Authority to pay its electricity bill to Israel and separately promised funds to support next month&#39;s presidential election.
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The United Nations will ask donor countries to contribute a record $450 million in aid to the Palestinians, whose economy has been devastated by international economic sanctions on the Hamas-led government, U.N. officials said Wednesday.
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The Bush administration on Wednesday  announced it was giving $20 million in direct aid to the  Palestinian Authority to help it through a financial crisis.
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Israel transferred to the Palestinians on Sunday a portion of the hundreds of millions of dollars in tax funds it had frozen for 17 months, hoping to bolster President Mahmoud Abbas while isolating Hamas.
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Israel said on Sunday it had begun transferring to the Palestinians some of the hundreds of millions of dollars in tax funds it had frozen for 17 months, hoping to bolster President Mahmoud Abbas while isolating Hamas.