Donors meet in Paris to back Middle East peace bid
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More than 60 countries meet in Paris on Monday to underwrite renewed Middle East peace talks with pledges of aid for the Palestinian government, locked in a power struggle with Hamas Islamists in the Gaza Strip.
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Dozens of international donors on Monday pledged $7.4 billion in aid to the Palestinians over the next three years in support of the Western-backed government of President Mahmoud Abbas, who is negotiating peace with Israel.
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Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas made a last push Saturday to win European support for lifting a crippling international aid embargo in talks with French President Jacques Chirac.
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Arab and Israeli leaders hold a summit in Egypt, in a show of support for Palestinian chief Mahmoud Abbas.
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Israel will not attend a Middle East conference in London early next year but backs its stated aim of fostering Palestinian reform in pursuit of peace after Yasser Arafat&#39;s death, a senior official says.
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Dozens of countries met on Monday to pledge billions of dollars in aid to the Palestinians in support of Western-backed President Mahmoud Abbas, but disputes with Israel on settlements and checkpoints darkened the mood.
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The architects of the Middle East "road map" reaffirmed their commitment to the stalled peace plan ahead of a Security Council ministerial meeting Thursday where Arab nations hope to revive efforts to end the Arab-Israeli conflict.
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The death of Yasser Arafat has brought a flurry of diplomatic initiatives in the Middle East by Arab, Palestinian and Israeli leaders aiming to revive long-stalled peace negotiations on several fronts.
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Hamas leader Khaled Meshaal said on  Friday several European states have pledged to send money to  the new Palestinian government, adding that key peace mediators  could also challenge the U.S. decision to shun the  Palestinians.
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The four sponsors of the stagnant Middle East peace process met Tuesday for the first time since Hamas seized Gaza, amid mounting speculation that outgoing British Prime Minister Tony Blair could be anointed their new envoy.
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U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan met Friday with the Syrian president to seek his support for carrying out a resolution that halted the fighting between Israel and Hezbollah guerrillas in neighboring Lebanon.
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The powers behind stalled Middle East peace efforts meet to discuss ways to revive the plan known as the roadmap.
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Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat remained on life support in a Paris-area hospital as factions in the Gaza Strip prepared to discuss his successor in an effort to avoid conflict.
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The Palestinian Authority made the request at a one-day meeting of big international donor nations began in Paris.
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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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Abu Mazen, Abu Ala and Nabil Shaath to meet French president, ministers in bid to see their ailing leader despite Suha Arafatâs refusal.
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