PASSAU : Chancellor Angela Merkel pledged 100 million euros ($130 million) in emergency aid for flood-ravaged areas on Tuesday, as surging waters that have claimed at least 11 lives and forced tens of thousands of evacuations across Europe bore down on Germany.Heavy rains across central Europe have ...

JOHANNESBURG - Over the decades rich nations have poured trillions of dollars into African development projects, but the global economic meltdown and Africa's booming growth are turning off that tap. In 2012 western aid to sub-Saharan Africa quite literally decimated.Rich countries making up the ...

NAYPYIDAW - Japan on Sunday announced a development aid and loan package for Myanmar worth hundreds of millions of dollars as it boosts trade ties with the fast-changing nation seen as a key regional emerging market.Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, who has pledged "all possible assistance" to kick-start ...

YANGON- Japan on Sunday endorsed Myanmar's reform programme by writing off nearly $2 billion (£1.3 billion) in debt and extending new aid, some of which will help support an industrial zone being developed by Japanese firms near the commercial capital, Yangon.Japan agreed a year ago to ...

NEW DELHIAfghan President Hamid Karzai held talks with Indian leaders Tuesday, hoping to secure more military aid as he looks to beef up his security forces after international troops pull out next year.An Indian foreign ministry source confirmed that Karzai had held talks late Tuesday with Prime ...

kabul  - Afghan President Hamid Karzai plans to discuss potential arms deals with Indian officials during a trip to New Delhi this week, officials said, at a time when tensions are running high on Afghanistan’s disputed border with Pakistan.Kabul’s overtures to New Delhi are likely ...

Afghan President Hamid Karzai plans to discuss potential arms deals with Indian officials during a trip to New Delhi this week, officials said, at a time when tensions are running high on Afghanistan's disputed border with Pakistan.Kabul's overtures to New Delhi are likely to rile Islamabad where a ...

    WASHINGTON: AUSlawmaker has introduced a resolution in the House of Representatives to limit American aid toPakistanand four other countries. The other four countries areIran,North Korea,SyriaandEgypt. Introduced by Congressman Paul A Gosar, the Foreign Assistance Under Limitation and ...

Arguing that sending billions of taxpayer dollars overseas to hostile countries is "unconscionable", a US lawmaker has introduced a resolution in the House of Representatives to limit American aid to Pakistan and four other countries.The other four countries are Iran, North Korea, Syria and ...

Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) leader Shahbaz Sharif Wednesday alleged that President Asif Ali Zardari has pushed the country for begging and dependency on foreign aid.Addressing a public meeting in Jalo More area of Lahore on Saturday‚ he said we have carried out a huge development ...

Syria hopes to clinch more financial aid from its allies Russia and Iran soon, but still has enough foreign reserves to pursue its war on rebels trying to oust President Bashar al-Assad, the central bank governor said.Speaking at the bank's headquarters, hit by a car bomb on April 8, Adeeb Mayaleh ...

istanbulThe United States is set to boost its support for Syria’s rebels at a meeting of the opposition’s main foreign backers Saturday and could for the first time agree to supply non-lethal military gear.But Washington is expected to stop short of agreeing to rebel demands for arms as ...

Washington - Secretary of State John Kerry fought back a determined attempt by an anti-Pakistan lawmaker demanding cutoff of American aid to the South Asian country in a Congressional panel on Wednesday, saying such a move would not be in US interest.“Well, you know the old saying, about ...

WASHINGTON - The United States on Tuesday offered condolences to the Pakistani victims of the deadly earthquake that jolted the Iran-Pakistan border region, and said it was ready to provide humanitarian aid to them.“We have seen the reports of the earthquake near Khashkhail on the ...

WASHINGTON  - The US assistance to Pakistan has helped in reducing the conditions that foment extremism in the country, US Secretary of State John Kerry said as the State Department in its annual budget sought USD 1.3 billion in economic and military assistance for Pakistan."Our economic and ...

GAZA CITY  - Gaza’s Hamas rulers urged the UN to reconsider its suspension of food aid for Palestinian refugees, imposed after protesters stormed a UN depot. The UNRWA stopped food deliveries after dozens of Gazans forced their way into the field office, demanding reinstatement of a ...

BAHAWALPUR - The Bahawalpur Press Club president and local leaders of various political parties demanded that the government should announce financial assistance for the victims and heirs of those killed in a road accident last Tuesday in Bahawalpur district. As many as 26 people including women ...

The US Senate Friday overwhelmingly defeated a bill that would have denied American aid to Pakistan till the release of the imprisoned Pakistani doctor who helped CIA trace Osama bin Laden.The bill was defeated by 81 to 10 votes. Introduced by Senator Rand Paul, the bill also called for cutting all ...

PARIS  - Rich countries applying budget austerity cut their aid to developing countries by 2.7 per cent last year, the OECD says, and aid group Oxfam warns that this is putting lives at risk.The cut in development aid, the first for 14 years, looks likely to continue at a time when poor ...

WASHINGTON  - The main US foreign aid agency is preparing to switch from private security contractors in Afghanistan to Afghan government-provided security this month under a new policy mandated by Afghan President Hamid Karzai, raising concern in Washington that this could put US civilians at ...

NEW YORK  - Psychotherapy focused on spirituality and finding meaning may help improve quality of life and well-being in terminally ill cancer patients, suggests a new study from a large cancer treatment center.The talk therapy sessions only seemed to provide a short-term benefit — ...

GENEVA  - An aid convoy was denied access to the Baba Amr district of Homs Friday, International Red Cross chief Jakob Kellenberger said, calling the Syrian refusal after an earlier assurance “unacceptable.”The joint convoy of the ICRC and Syrian Red Crescent team had spent all day ...

GENEVA  - The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) is negotiating with Syrian authorities and opposition fighters on a cease-fire to bring life-saving aid to civilians hardest hit by the conflict, it said Monday."The ICRC is exploring several possibilities for delivering urgently ...

WASHINGTON - Unveiling its annual budget of $3.8 trillion that calls for tax hikes on the rich, the Obama administration on Monday proposed $2.4 billion in financial aid to Pakistan for the fiscal year 2013, reported Press Trust of India.Of this, $2.2 billion is in assistance to strengthen ...

Development and humanitarian aid should always be controlled by the recipient country and its institutions. It is Parliament and the civil service that should set the overall rules at federal and provincial levels, with civil society organisations and the private sector as partners. In ...

WASHINGTON - US elite commandos swooped into lawless Somalia Wednesday and rescued two Western aid workers held for three months by armed pirates in a daring pre-dawn raid approved by President Barack Obama.In a rare US incursion into Somalia, Navy SEALs flying at least six military helicopters ...

ISLAMABAD - Government should not approach International Monetary Fund (IMF) for another bailout package due to rising global crude prices which might not prove beneficial for the country in the long term.Business community remained wary of and apprehensive at the prospects of IMF’s return ...

ISLAMABAD  - A Kenyan aid worker working for an international charity and his Pakistani driver are missing, feared abducted in flood-hit southern belt, police said Monday.Police official Saqib Ismail said the Kenyan works for Care International and that his car was found abandoned in the town ...

MULTAN - World Water Assembly (WWA) Chief Coordinator Hafiz Zahoorul Hassan Dahar warned on Saturday that India was working on a vicious plan to use water bomb against Pakistan as 47 new dams would become operational on Pakistani rivers till December 31, 2014.Talking to the journalists here, he ...

NANKANA SAHIB - The participants of a ceremony here urged the government and philanthropists to come forward and support the deserving poor students in order to enable them to play their key role in the welfare of the country. The steps taken to establish a Book Bank and a Blood Bank for the ...