Qatar 'to pay Palestinian wages'
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Qatar will pay the salaries of 40,000 Palestinian education workers for several months, says the Palestinian PM.
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Palestinians could receive as much as  $8 billion in aid over the next four years from the United  States, Europe and Arab nations if progress is made in the  Palestinians' push for peace with Israel, the New York Times  reported on Friday.
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Donors began committing funds from around the world Monday for the moribund Palestinian economy amid a renewed international push for a Palestinian state, with the European Union promising $650 million in 2008.
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Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas&#039; office on Tuesday received &#36;50 million from the Arab League, officials said, the largest amount of international aid to reach the Palestinians since the Hamas militant group won legislative elections in January.
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Qatar agrees to repatriate two jailed Russians, in a move likely to relieve tensions with Moscow.
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The European Union and its Middle East Quartet partners are close to accord on a &amp;quot;mechanism&amp;quot; to channel aid to the cash-strapped Palestinians, EU external affairs commissioner Benita Ferrero-Waldner said.
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The European Union will pledge $650 million in aid to the Palestinians for 2008
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A contingent of German media visiting Qatar courtesy of the country's award-winning national flag carrier, Qatar Airways, have forecast that The Pearl-Qatar, the US $2.5 billion island being reclaimed off the ...
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Qatar's state investment fund is set to win the auction of Nasdaq's 31 percent stake in the London Stock Exchange Group after lodging a bid of 2.8 billion pounds ($5.6 billion), the Sunday Times reported on Sunday.
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SAN FRANCISCO (CBS.MW) -- ExxonMobil Corp. and Qatar Petroleum said Wednesday they had lined up $7.5 billion toward financing their giant Qatargas II project, which aims to export liquefied natural gas from the Middle East nation to Britain.
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The European Union has  begun paying social allowance to hundreds of thousands of needy  Palestinians under a temporary mechanism agreed by the Quartet  of Middle East peace brokers.
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BEIRUT, Aug. 30 -- Prime Minister Fouad Siniora on Wednesday unveiled a $33,000 compensation package for Lebanese whose homes were destroyed in the fighting between Hezbollah and Israel.
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A UK charity plans to set up call centres in the West Bank and Gaza to boost the crippled Palestinian economy.
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Long queues form at banks as Palestinian civil servants get their first wage packets in more than a year.
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Palestinians in the occupied areas who suffer harm by the army in noncombat operations may seek compensation from the government, the court ruled.
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RAMALLAH, West Bank -- Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas has spent the past two weeks struggling to reach a power-sharing deal with the Hamas government -- a government that hasn't paid salaries in six months and that hobbles along with thousands of workers on strike and four Cabinet members in Israeli jails.
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The Palestinian Authority faces a fiscal crisis that could threaten its existence, in part because it keeps expanding the public payroll despite sharply reduced revenues, the World Bank said in a report released Wednesday.