Palestinians get first full wages in 17 months
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President Mahmoud Abbas's emergency government paid Palestinian Authority workers, excluding some 19,000 who report to Hamas, their first full wages in 17 months on Wednesday.
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Palestinians hold three faction officials in the first arrests linked to anti-Israeli violence since Palestinian elections.
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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 Israeli and Palestinian leaders authorized the start of negotiations on the sensitive core issues of the conflict between the two sides, officials said.
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Israel said it had begun the transfer of tens of millions of dollars in tax funds to the Palestinian Authority on Sunday after a break of 17 months, hoping to bolster President Mahmoud Abbas and isolate Hamas.
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Israel has agreed to free 170  Palestinian prisoners, Israel Radio said on Sunday.
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JERUSALEM - Israeli Cabinet ministers approved cash advances Tuesday of up to $115,000 to Jewish settlers willing to leave their homes in the Gaza Strip and West Bank - the first concrete step toward carrying out Prime Minister Ariel Sharon's contentious pullout plan.    In a sign of growing tensions, Israeli police said Sharon and an official planning the withdrawal have been the targets of death threats by Jewish extremists...
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WASHINGTON -- Higher costs for energy and food last year pushed inflation up by the largest amount in 17 years, even though prices generally remained tame outside of those two areas.
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Palestinians retrieved belongings from the rubble of dozens of homes and work crews patched up roads and water pipes Saturday &#151; the aftermath of Israel's 17-day military offensive, the deadliest in the Gaza Strip in four years of fighting.
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Nevada workers now must earn nearly 17-dollars an hour in wages to be able to afford to pay for rent and utilities for a typical two-bedroom apartment in the state.
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The Israeli government yesterday said it would free 170 jailed Palestinians in a gesture of gratitude for Egypt&#39;s recent release of an Israeli Arab imprisoned for spying.
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Jewish settlers in the occupied territories will soon be able to claim compensation, sometimes of more than Â£270,000, under guidelines approved yesterday by Israel&#39;s security cabinet for the Gaza withdrawal plan.
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Palestinian government employees loyal to President Mahmoud Abbas on Wednesday stood in long lines outside banks in Hamas-ruled Gaza to collect their first full salaries in 13 months.
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JERUSALEM -- Prime Minister Ariel Sharon of Israel won broad support in parliament yesterday for a bill that establishes how much money will be paid to Jewish settlers evacuated from the Gaza Strip and a small part of the West Bank this summer, in another milestone for his plan to dismantle settlements on occupied Palestinian land for the first time ...
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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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They ended an assault in the northern Gaza Strip that lasted 17 days and killed 114 Palestinians. The fighting also left five Israelis and one Thai laborer dead.
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Plans to resume salary payments to government workers have become the latest battleground for rival Palestinian factions struggling to win the support of the residents of the West Bank and Gaza.