Last week the Senate voted final approval with the aid of three Republican senators.

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The prize committee also credited his efforts with helping to increase aid to needy families in the United States.

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And the plan calls for one hundred billion dollars a year in aid to poor nations to deal with climate change.

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The government that receives the aid can make extensive long-term plans about what to do with the money.

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The Copenhagen Accord sets a goal of one hundred billion dollars a year in aid to help poor nations with climate control by twenty-twenty.

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and with the many international partners and aid organizations that are now on the ground."

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It was made with material saved from aid centers built after the flood in Johnstown.

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The ships loaded with aid tried to break a three-year-old Israeli blockade of Gaza.

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Since then, the people of Aceh, with the help of the Indonesian government and international aid organizations, have rebuilt their communities.

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The technique was taught by aid workers who also showed the farmers how to fertilize with compost or manure.

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Instead,the new Hatoyama government said it would provide the Afghan people with $5 billion in civilian aid over five years.

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Indonesia's government dispatched medical teams and military planes to help with the relief efforts and announced $10 million in emergency response aid.

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He is concerned that President Obama might join the European Union and many Latin American nations in suspending aid and trade with Honduras.

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While not stipulating dollar amounts of U.S.military aid, it authorizes such sums that are necessary to help the country deal with security needs.

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That's no big surprise to Marc Cohen, a policy researcher with the humanitarian aid group,Oxfam.

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The announcement cameas President Asif Zardari met with top U.S.officials in Washington to discuss plans for billions of dollars in aid aimed at countering the Taliban.

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In a Middle East policy address Thursday night, Clinton urged Arab countries to back up verbal statements of support for the Palestinian Authority with tangible financial aid.

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The Italian aid group Emergency has had a tense relationship with local authorities in violence-wracked Helmand province, due in part to its policy of treating all patients.

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Washington has provided material aid to the Calderon government and is coordinating anti-cartel efforts with Mexican authorities, using the Drug Enforcement Administration office in Houston as the spearhead.

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The East Timor group Cooperativa Cafe Timor has joined with international aid organizations to help farmers produce and market higher quality coffee for specialty coffee shops like the U.S.chain Starbucks.

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Tiziana Bonapace,a senior economist with the UNESCAP, says developing countries need financial aid to assist them in developing low-emission technologies and agriculture methods and ensuring poverty reduction policies are maintained.

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After briefing the U.N. General Assembly committee that deals with these issues, Muntarbhorn told reporters that food aid is important, but that it should come with a "no access,no food provision".

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As the House Appropriations Committee voted to send a State Department and foreign aid funding bill to the full House of Representatives, Democrat Nita Lowey voiced congressional solidarity with demonstrators in Iran.

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The Secretary of State said she is working to integrate U.S.aid efforts more closely with diplomacy and defense operations abroad without politicizing aid programs saying the "3-D's" - development, diplomacy and defense must be mutually-reinforcing.

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But he stressed the United States must combine its military might that has damaged al-Qaida during the past several years with other tools, such as diplomacy and development aid, as well as expand human intelligence to defeat an adaptable enemy.

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Alex Ocean, an elementary school teacher whose Port-au-Prince school is now closed because of the quake, says he hopes that aid distribution in the camp will become better organized and that there will be international help with reconstruction.

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U.N.humanitarian chief John Holmes told the Security Council Thursday that during his recent visit to Khartoum, government officials made clear to him both in private and in public that new aid groups and those with new names and logos are welcome in the country.

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Clinton paid tribute to two aid initiatives of the Bush administration the Millennium Challenge Corporation which makes grants to countries with concrete plans for good governance and fighting corruption,and PEPFAR the anti HIV-AIDS program which has provided millions of Africans and others with anti-viral medications.

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