At 10th anniversary, a far poorer Palestinian Authority
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The four-year intifada has left the Palestinian economy - and government - in shambles.
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Paris, Nov. 4 (NNN): Palestinian officials have said that ailing Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat&#39;s health has deteriorated further.
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GAZA CITY, Gaza Strip -- The Palestinian Authority said yesterday that it will disband a small security unit tainted by accusations of abuse, an initial step toward overhauling its bloated network of overlapping and competing security forces.
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RAMALLAH, West Bank, Oct. 28 -- No crowds of well-wishers massed Thursday outside the Mukata, the mostly ruined compound where Yasser Arafat has been confined for the past two years. Only a throng of reporters assembled, peering through the smoked windows of sedans carrying officials to a frail old man who still embodies the national aspirations of many Palestinians.
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Leaders of the Palestine Liberation Organisation have met for the first time in decades without Yasser Arafat. The executive committee meeting was held in Mr Arafat&#39;s battered headquarters in the West Bank
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Suspicion falls on Islamic terrorists - but not al-Qaeda - in the country's worst terrorist attack in more than a decade
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The Palestinian economy remained mired in deep recession in the four years since the Intifada began in September 2000, in part because of frequent closures at the Israeli border, a new World Bank report said.
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Comment is free: Karen Koning AbuZayd: Palestinian suffering has reached new depths. Peace cannot be built by reducing 1.5m people to a state of abject destitution
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The Palestinian national authority has played down Israel&#39;s release of 160 Palestinian prisoners in an attempt Tel Aviv said is an appreciation for the release of the Israeli spy Azzam Azzam.
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The Palestinian economy is in crisis, performing well below its potential, the World Bank says.
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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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The rapid decline of the 75-year-old Palestinian leader&#39;s health, the refusal of his wife and authorities at the French military hospital where he died last Thursday to release his medical
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One of the principal causes of the failure of all previous peace efforts has been the neglect of the grassroots. The Oslo agreement never delivered concrete âpeace dividends&#39; which ordinary individuals could point to.
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Ten years of international community and local awareness campaigns to root out corruption in Bulgaria have produced few results.
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ONE OF Yasser Arafat&#39;s least-admired roles in the last few years was as the constantly cited excuse for international futility in Middle Eastern peace efforts.
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Palestinian leader's condition is obscured by rumor and intrigue.
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The serious deterioration in the health of Yasser Arafat, President of the Palestinian National Authority, has brought to the attention of the world something consciously concealed by the western