Iraq to get $436m emergency loan
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The International Monetary Fund approves a $436m emergency reconstruction loan for Iraq, the first loan from an international body.
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TOKYO: International donors to Iraq agreed yesterday that they need to speed up the allocation of promised funds to rebuild the country, but failed to erase concerns that violence is a huge obstacle as they wrapped up a two-day meeting.
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BAGHDAD : Iraqi Prime Minister Iyad Allawi has declared a state of emergency across Iraq, except for the northern region of Kurdistan, for 60 days due to a spike in deadly violence, his spokesman said.
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WASHINGTON: The Bush administration has agreed to write off Iraq&#39;s debts to Washington of $4.1 billion, racked up during the regime of Saddam Hussein.
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WASHINGTON : The United States is to shift more than three billion dollars in aid to Iraq from reconstruction programs to largely beefing up security, US officials said as violence flaring over Iraq spiked in the past two weeks.
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Iraq cleared around $81 million in  debt it owed the International Monetary Fund late last week,  fund sources said on Monday, opening the way for the first aid  to flow from the global lender to Iraq.
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: Iraqâs interim government declared a state of emergency for 60 days today ahead of January elections amid spiralling insurgent attacks that have killed 60 Iraqis in two days.
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The International Monetary Fund approved a $436 million loan to Iraq on Wednesday, a milestone in the nation's effort to normalize its finances and rebuild its economy.
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President George W. Bush will soon  seek about $100 billion in additional emergency funds for the  wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, according to a report on  Wednesday by Democratic staffers for two key panels in the U.S.  House of Representatives.
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BAGHDAD, Iraq -- Iraqi Prime Minister Iyad Allawi declared a 60-day state of emergency across most of Iraq on Sunday amid expectations of an imminent assault on the rebel hub of Fallujah.
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The House of Representatives approved a $556 billion bill on Wednesday to fund most of the federal government through September 2008, ending a year-long budget fight with President George W. Bush by also including new money for the Iraq war.
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Major economic powers agreed to write off $31 billion of Iraqi debt on Sunday in a major breakthrough for US-led efforts to get Iraq&#39;s economy back on its feet.
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$43 million will go to reconstruction in five provinces in a bid to reduce Taliban influence.
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TOKYO - Hoping to keep much-needed cash flowing into war-ravaged Iraq, Japan will host a 50-nation Iraqi reconstruction donors' conference this week that may focus less on getting new pledges than on getting countries to honor their earlier promises.    The two-day conference, starting Wednesday, is a follow-up to a high-profile meeting in Madrid last year in which 37 countries and international lending institutions pledged $13.6 billion in grants and loans...
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After initially insisting it had  enough money, the Bush administration has begun tapping its $25  billion emergency fund for the Iraq war to prepare for a major  troop rotation and intense fighting this fall, administration  and congressional officials said on Tuesday.
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The United States will shift more than $US3 billion in aid to Iraq from reconstruction programs to strengthening security, US officials have said.
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The Spanish government announced here Monday that it will write off 80 percent of Iraq's debt, or 482 million US dollars, to help rebuild the war-torn country.