NY Bowling Alley Returns $1.3 Million Arafat Investment
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A fashionable Manhattan bowling alley  that boasts celebrity customers such as Rudy Giuliani and  Harvey Weinstein said on Thursday it was returning $1.3 million  reported to have come from Yasser Arafat.
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BEIRUT: Foreign direct investment (FDI) in Lebanon rose to $358 million in 2003 compared to $257 million in 2002, a jump of 12.1 percent, according to a World Investment Report issued Wednesday
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The owner of a popular bowling alley in Greenwich Village said Thursday his company was severing ties with a group tied to the late Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat and is returning its $1.3 million investment.
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MIDEAST:Residents hope lessening Israeli-Palestinian violence can help the town regain its tourist industry. BY LAURA KING. BETHLEHEM, West Bank - In this Christmas season of hopes and fears, the little town
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OSLO, Dec 8  - The United States will give the cash-strapped Palestinian Authority 20 million dollars in aid to resolve its immediate budget woes, US Assistant Secretary of State William Burns said on Wednesday.
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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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The new Yankee Stadium will have party suites, a members-only restaurant, a martini bar and a price tag to match all the luxury Â $1.3 billion, up from the original estimate of $1 billion.
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&quot;Effectively as of today, the PCSC will have no investments in Strike Holdings,&quot; Shannon added. The PCSC is a Ramallah-based holding company owned by the Palestinian Authority.
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Australian major shopping centre owner Westfield will invest 625 million US dollars in a retail project at the site of the World Trade Center in New York, it said Monday.
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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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Foreign Secretary Margaret Beckett has used a visit to the West Bank to declare that Britain is boosting its contribution to an international fund for needy Palestinians.
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The CEO of a company that owns several US bowling alleys, including a popular one in Manhattan, said yesterday it was severing ties with a group linked to the late PA chairman
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In this handout image provided by the PPO, Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat listens at a meeting October 4, 2004 in Ramallah, West Bank.
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A Palestinian suicide bomber has hit a bustling open-air market in Tel Aviv, killing three people in a show of force by militants three days after Yasser Arafat was airlifted to France for urgent medical treatment.
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A court on Wednesday ordered three U.S.  Islamic organizations and a man accused of bankrolling the  Palestinian group Hamas to pay $156 million in damages in the  death of an American-born student gunned down in the West Bank  in 1996.
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LOS ANGELES A Los Angeles-based investment firm has agreed to buy four properties from Las Vegas-based Caesars and Harrah&#39;s Entertainment for a total of 1-point-24 (b) billion dollars.
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It&#39;s splitsville for Manhattan bowling kingpin Tom Shannon and the grad-school buddy who secretly invested $1.3 million of Yasser Arafat&#39;s money in his business.