Abbas' office gets &#36;50M from Arab League
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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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Dozens of international donors on Monday pledged $7.4 billion in aid to the Palestinians over the next three years in support of the Western-backed government of President Mahmoud Abbas, who is negotiating peace with Israel.
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An official of the Palestinians&#039; Hamas-led government who returned from a seven-nation trip with &#36;20 million in his luggage said Saturday that he will continue to funnel money across the Egyptian border despite European objections.
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In a gesture to Abbas, Israel plans to release 500 Palestinian prisoners this week.
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The ruling Fatah party chose Mahmoud Abbas as its candidate to replace Yasser Arafat as head of the Palestinian Authority in Jan. 9 elections, a Palestinian official said. Abbas, 69, Arafat's longtime deputy as head of the Palestine Liberation Organization, has already been named head of the PLO.
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The Government committed 50 million pounds in specific bilateral aid projects for war-torn Iraq from a total 544 million package that London has pledged to spend by March 2006.
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Israel's cabinet approved on Sunday the resumption of Palestinian tax revenue transfers to Mahmoud Abbas's emergency government, an official said, announcing a step to undercut Hamas Islamists controlling Gaza.
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Last summer, Motaz Herzallah needed &#36;65,000 for an operation on a cancerous brain tumor. He said he sent an appeal to Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat through contacts in the West Bank and received a check within three days.
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Israel agreed on Sunday to transfer several hundred million dollars to Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas's emergency government, a measure designed to undercut Hamas Islamists controlling Gaza.
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Five weeks before Palestinian Authority presidential elections, front-runner Mahmoud Abbas took a campaign swing - through the Arab world.
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Yasser Arafat&#39;s economic adviser, Muhammad Rashid, has agreed to hand over to the Palestinian Authority some $600 million believed to be held in secret bank accounts.
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JERUSALEM -- Election front-runner Mahmoud Abbas marked the end of the 40-day Muslim mourning period for Yasser Arafat by asserting his commitment to a peace deal that would create a Palestinian state with Jerusalem as a capital.
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Palestinian leader Mahmoud Abbas changes the election law, which could boost his Fatah party against Hamas.
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RAMALLAH, West Bank -- Tens of thousands of Palestinian civil servants will be paid in full this week for the first time in more than a year after Israel released millions of dollars in tax funds frozen during Hamas rule, officials said yesterday.
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The head of the Arab League said Wednesday there was progress in his efforts to bring rival Lebanese leaders to reach agreement on defusing political and sectarian tensions that threaten to tear the country apart.
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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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Leaders from Israel, Egypt and Jordan met today to show support for the Palestinian president, Mahmoud Abbas.