US pledges $20m to Palestinians
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The US pledges $20m to help Palestinians out of a financial crisis - a rare direct payment from Washington.
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President Bush  approved Wednesday $20 million in direct aid to the Palestinian Authority, as part of a broader White House strategy to pursue peace in the Middle East following Yasser Arafat's death.
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On word of the death of Palestinian  leader Yasser Arafat, Secretary of State Colin Powell pledged  on Thursday the United States would "do all we can" to help  Palestinians achieve peace and urged calm to prevail in the  region.
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U.S. President George W. Bush and Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert pledged on Tuesday to bolster Palestinian leader Mahmoud Abbas, as Israel sought to tighten the screws on Hamas Islamists who control Gaza.
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Rejecting a United Nations official&#39;s suggestion that it had been a &quot;stingy&quot; aid donor, the Bush administration on Tuesday announced another $20 million in relief
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The top American diplomat in Jerusalem said Monday that the Bush administration is seeking $400 million in new aid for the Palestinian Authority
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A spending bill for this past year included $20 million "for commemoration of success" in Iraq and Afghanistan.
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US-funded efforts to spread democracy in Middle East meet with resistance.
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The European Union will pledge $650 million in aid to the Palestinians for 2008
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Led by Europe, international donors on Monday pledged $7.4 billion over three years to help Palestinians as new peace talks begin with Israel, yet old Mideast fights over disputed land and freedom of movement shadowed the largest show of support for the Palestinians in more than a decade.
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Israel, which receives about 1.5 billion pounds a year in US aid, may seek extra funding next year to bolster border security and overhaul checkpoints as part of a plan
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US lawmakers Thursday voted to cut 20 million dollars from US funding for the UN Development Program, over claims Stalinist North Korea plundered money from the organization.
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The top American diplomat in Jerusalem said Sunday the United States will fully support Mahmoud Abbas' new government, but acknowledged that the moderate president had lost his influence over Gaza, home to more than one-third of Palestinians.
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Israel, which receives about $3 billion a year in US aid, may seek extra funding next year to bolster border security and overhaul checkpoints as part of a plan to pull out of Gaza and parts of
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Palestinian leaders will tell Colin Powell, the US secretary of state, who is visiting the occupied territories today, that they want the Bush administration to commit itself to the creation of a Palestinian state by the end of next year.
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U.S. President George W. Bush and Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert on Tuesday pledged to bolster Palestinian leader Mahmoud Abbas, as Israel tightened the diplomatic and economic embargo on Hamas Islamists who control Gaza.
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Israel, Egypt, and the United States signed a trade agreement that a senior US official called the most significant trade pact between Egypt and Israel in the past 20 years.