Donors make pledges for Palestine, promote peace
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France kicked off an international donors conference to boost the Palestinian economy on Monday, with delegations expected to offer some $5.6 billion and give political impetus to the renewed Middle East peace talks.
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JERICHO, West Bank A Palestinian leader who is campaigning to take the place of the late Yasser Arafat is pledging to follow in the footsteps of the longtime leader.
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The European Union will pledge $650 million in aid to the Palestinians for 2008
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Israel on Sunday began 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.
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A House committee chairwoman said Friday she is holding up $86 million in U.S. aid for Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas, at a time when the Bush administration is trying to strengthen him in hopes of enhancing prospects for Mideast peace.
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Foreign Secretary Margaret Beckett has used a visit to the West Bank to declare that Britain is boosting its contribution to an international fund for needy Palestinians.
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The initial aid pledges were generous, but governments will have to follow up on their word
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The European Union will pledge $650 million in aid to the Palestinians for 2008, EU External Relations Commissioner Benita Ferrero-Waldner said Monday.
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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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A four-year package of $6 billion to $8 billion would be forthcoming, donors said, if Palestinian elections occurred successfully.
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International donors to the Palestinian Authority will meet in Oslo next week amid concern that aspects of Israel&#39;s planned withdrawal from parts of the occupied territories may harm an already shattered economy.
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World donors pledged $500 million in aid for Palestinians on Friday, including $55 million for a U.N. emergency appeal for humanitarian help, organizers said.
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President Bush on Friday set a  four-year goal of seeing a Palestinian state established and he  and British Prime Minister Tony Blair vowed to mobilize  international support to help make it happen now that Yasser  Arafat is dead.
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Support from Bush leads to role as international envoy helping Palestinians.
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PARIS, Dec. 17 -- Countries and international organizations pledged $7.4 billion in assistance to the impoverished Palestinian Authority at a conference in Paris on Monday, saying that an infusion of cash would help the peace process begun by the United States last month in Annapolis, Md.
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The United States sought on Thursday to bolster support for an aid blockade against the Palestinian Authority and win backing for U.S. efforts to revive the Israeli-Palestinian peace process.
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EL-BIREH, West Bank, Dec. 25 -- Candidates vying to succeed Yasser Arafat as president of the Palestinian Authority kicked off a two-week election campaign Saturday with rallies and speeches that largely invoked the deceased leader's legacy and vowed to continue his campaign for statehood.