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Palestinian Prime Minister Salam Fayyad (R), European High Representative ...
Apr 13th, 2011
(Reuters) - Palestinian Prime Minister Salam Fayyad (R), European High Representative for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy Catherine Ashton (C) and Norway's Foreign Minister Jonas Gahr Stoere arrive for a joint news conference after the annual spring meeting of the donor coordination group for the Palestine Territories at the EU Commission headquarters in Brussels April 13, 2011. Fayyad will brief Western representatives in Brussels on Wednesday on his bid for nearly $5 billion in investment to launch a Palestinian state. REUTERS/Thierry Roge (BELGIUM - Tags: POLITICS BUSINESS) -
DAMASCUS, Syria (AP) - Syria's fighting has uprooted more than half of the country's 530,000 Palestinians - descendants of refugees from a Mideast conflict half a century ago - and their situation is becoming increasingly desperate, the head of a U.N. aid agency said Thursday. (Source: Associated Press)... [Full Article]
By Maria Golovnina and Guy Faulconbridge LONDON (Reuters) - Prime Minister David Cameron convened an emergency meeting of his intelligence chiefs on Thursday after two Islamists hacked a soldier to death with meat cleavers on a south London street. A dramatic clip filmed by an onlooker just minutes after Wednesday's killing showed a man with h... [Full Article]
By Kate Holton and Paul Sandle LONDON (Reuters) - Vodafone will reinvest a $3.2 billion (2.1 billion pounds) dividend from its healthy U.S. arm to counter weakness in southern Europe that contributed to the largest ever quarterly fall in the group's main revenue measure. The British firm is trying to decide whether to sell Verizon Wireless, it... [Full Article]
By Mridhula Raghavan (Reuters) - Luxury homebuilder Toll Brothers Inc reported stronger-than-expected results on higher average selling prices and booked its highest quarterly orders in seven years, sending its shares up 7 percent. Record-low interest rates and rising rents have encouraged more Americans to buy homes after the housing market bust, ... [Full Article]