MADRID, SPAIN - Spain said on Monday that it would give an additional US$$3.8 million (3.5 million euros) in aid to the UN Palestinian refugee agency UNRWA, which is facing a cash crunch after several nations suspended their funding. Over a dozen countries, including major donors the United States, Germany, Britain...
Lebanon to pay $16m for power on polling day
Lebanon's electricity company is charging $16 million to supply power on the day of the May 15 parliamentary polls, a sum that exceeds the overall election budget by nearly 30 percent, the interior minister said.Gaza bookshop destroyed in Israeli air strike reopens
The new Samir Mansour bookshop, funded by an international donor campaign, stands some 200 meters from the original site, which was destroyed by an Israeli airstrike in Gaza.
Foreign envoys in Lebanon seek reforms for bailout cash, get no response
Donors want the establishment of a new government to enact urgently needed reforms Foreign donors have over the past year pledged millions of dollars in humanitarian aid As Lebanon's economy tanks, foreign envoys are resorting to increasingly undiplomatic language to make clear their exasperation with politicians who demand bailout cash...
