<?xml version="1.0" encoding="iso-8859-1" ?><rss version="2.0"><channel><title>washingtonpost.com - Foreign Aid</title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/world/issues/foreignaid?nav=rss_world/issues/foreignaid</link><description>Foreign Aid</description><language>en-us</language><ttl>15</ttl><image><title>washingtonpost.com</title><width>140</width><height>20</height><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com</link><url>http://media.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/hp/image/wp_web.gif</url></image><item><title><![CDATA[Senate Approves Spending Bill]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A7684-2005Apr21.html?nav=rss_world/issues/foreignaid</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A7684-2005Apr21.html?nav=rss_world/issues/foreignaid</guid><pubDate>Sun, 24 Apr 2005 11:05:30 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[The Senate unanimously approved yesterday an $81 billion bill to finance the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, provide relief to Asian tsunami victims and construct a massive embassy in Baghdad.]]></description><author> Jonathan Weisman</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Finding Consensus on The Global Economy]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A61452-2005Apr17.html?nav=rss_world/issues/foreignaid</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A61452-2005Apr17.html?nav=rss_world/issues/foreignaid</guid><pubDate>Sun, 24 Apr 2005 11:05:30 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[Officials from the world's leading finance ministries and central banks concur that financial turmoil triggered by a plunge in the U.S. dollar could erupt sometime in the future unless strong steps are taken to shrink "global imbalances."]]></description><author> Paul Blustein</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Tax Season Anxiety With an Extra Twist]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A54435-2005Apr14.html?nav=rss_world/issues/foreignaid</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A54435-2005Apr14.html?nav=rss_world/issues/foreignaid</guid><pubDate>Sun, 24 Apr 2005 11:05:30 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[If tax time brings many Americans an annual wave of frustration, it is perhaps  especially stressful for low-income immigrants.]]></description><author> Mary Beth Sheridan</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Karzai Seeks Extended U.S. Security Deal]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A49147-2005Apr13.html?nav=rss_world/issues/foreignaid</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A49147-2005Apr13.html?nav=rss_world/issues/foreignaid</guid><pubDate>Sun, 24 Apr 2005 11:05:30 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ KABUL, Afghanistan, April 13  --  President Hamid Karzai said Wednesday that he was seeking a long-term security arrangement with the United States, but he declined to say whether it would include the establishment of permanent U.S. military bases in Afghanistan.]]></description><author> N.C. Aizenman</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[In Fallujah, U.S. Envoy Greeted by Complaints]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A49091-2005Apr13.html?nav=rss_world/issues/foreignaid</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A49091-2005Apr13.html?nav=rss_world/issues/foreignaid</guid><pubDate>Sun, 24 Apr 2005 11:05:30 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[  FALLUJAH, Iraq, April 13  --  Deputy Secretary of State Robert B. Zoellick paid a surprise visit Wednesday to this former insurgent stronghold to view the pace of reconstruction and meet with local officials. He was greeted with an earful of complaints.]]></description><author> Glenn Kessler</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Man Seized At Capitol Will Be Deported]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A47981-2005Apr12.html?nav=rss_world/issues/foreignaid</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A47981-2005Apr12.html?nav=rss_world/issues/foreignaid</guid><pubDate>Sun, 24 Apr 2005 11:05:30 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ A 33-year-old Australian man who was tackled in a standoff with police at the U.S. Capitol on Monday will be deported, and no criminal charges will be filed against him, authorities said yesterday.]]></description><author> Del Quentin Wilber</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Insurgents Attack U.S. Marine Base in Iraq]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A43621-2005Apr11.html?nav=rss_world/issues/foreignaid</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A43621-2005Apr11.html?nav=rss_world/issues/foreignaid</guid><pubDate>Sun, 24 Apr 2005 11:05:30 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[Insurgents claiming links to al Qaeda tried to overrun a Marine base near the Syrian border Monday using gunmen, suicide car bombs and a fire truck loaded with explosives, U.S. and Iraqi officials said.]]></description><author> Ellen Knickmeyer</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Afghans Get No Guarantees on Reconstruction Budget]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A32388-2005Apr6.html?nav=rss_world/issues/foreignaid</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A32388-2005Apr6.html?nav=rss_world/issues/foreignaid</guid><pubDate>Sun, 24 Apr 2005 11:05:30 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ KABUL, Afghanistan, April 6  --  U.S. and British officials said they were receptive to a recent request by Afghan President Hamid Karzai for more control over international funds being used to rebuild this war-ravaged country, but they offered no guarantees Wednesday at the conclusion of a three-day meeting between Afghan officials and representatives of more than 40 donor nations and agencies in Afghanistan's capital.]]></description><author> N.C. Aizenman</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[U.S. Opens Challenge to Chinese Textiles]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A26484-2005Apr4.html?nav=rss_world/issues/foreignaid</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A26484-2005Apr4.html?nav=rss_world/issues/foreignaid</guid><pubDate>Sun, 24 Apr 2005 11:05:30 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[The Bush administration took a giant step Monday toward imposing new caps on imports of Chinese clothing, responding to complaints that China's export juggernaut is starting to dominate the worldwide apparel market.]]></description><author> Paul Blustein</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[U.S. Avoids Political Fight Among Iraqis]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A14165-2005Mar30.html?nav=rss_world/issues/foreignaid</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A14165-2005Mar30.html?nav=rss_world/issues/foreignaid</guid><pubDate>Sun, 24 Apr 2005 11:05:30 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[Some Iraqi political blocs are asking the country's American power brokers to intervene as the country's first attempt at democratic government remains mired in private deal-making and public shouting matches.]]></description><author> Ellen Knickmeyer</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Indonesians Hunt for Quake Victims]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A8943-2005Mar29.html?nav=rss_world/issues/foreignaid</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A8943-2005Mar29.html?nav=rss_world/issues/foreignaid</guid><pubDate>Sun, 24 Apr 2005 11:05:30 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[Survivors and relief workers attempted to rescue people trapped in buildings flattened by a major undersea quake that has killed at least 400.]]></description><author> Ellen Nakashima</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Wolfowitz Draws Nearer To World Bank Post]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A61432-2005Mar23.html?nav=rss_world/issues/foreignaid</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A61432-2005Mar23.html?nav=rss_world/issues/foreignaid</guid><pubDate>Sun, 24 Apr 2005 11:05:30 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[Deputy Defense Secretary Paul D. Wolfowitz virtually sealed his election as World Bank president after meeting with bank board members, who were impressed and reassured by his answers to their questions, according to bank sources.]]></description><author> Paul Blustein</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Wolfowitz Closing In on World Bank Post]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A55122-2005Mar21.html?nav=rss_world/issues/foreignaid</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A55122-2005Mar21.html?nav=rss_world/issues/foreignaid</guid><pubDate>Sun, 24 Apr 2005 11:05:30 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[Deputy Defense Secretary Paul D. Wolfowitz closed in  on  the presidency of the World Bank Monday when  Chancellor Gerhard Schroeder said  Germany would not try to block Wolfowitz's candidacy.]]></description><author> Paul Blustein</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Wolfowitz Bolsters Image]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A52375-2005Mar20.html?nav=rss_world/issues/foreignaid</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A52375-2005Mar20.html?nav=rss_world/issues/foreignaid</guid><pubDate>Sun, 24 Apr 2005 11:05:30 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[The deputy defense secretary is energetically reaching out in the hope of persuading his critics to support his nomination to head the World Bank.]]></description><author> Paul Blustein</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Funding Fear]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A45486-2005Mar17.html?nav=rss_world/issues/foreignaid</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A45486-2005Mar17.html?nav=rss_world/issues/foreignaid</guid><pubDate>Sun, 24 Apr 2005 11:05:30 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[   LIGHTNING OUT OF LEBANON<br>  Hezbollah Terrorists on American Soil]]></description><author>Reviewed  Daniel man</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nomination Shocks, Worries Europeans]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A41350-2005Mar16.html?nav=rss_world/issues/foreignaid</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A41350-2005Mar16.html?nav=rss_world/issues/foreignaid</guid><pubDate>Sun, 24 Apr 2005 11:05:30 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[President Bush's nomination of Deputy Defense Secretary Paul D. Wolfowitz as the next president of the World Bank was met with much surprise, little enthusiasm and some outright opposition in Europe, where he is best known as a leading proponent of a conflict deeply unpopular here, the Iraq war.]]></description><author> Keith B. Richburg  and Glenn Frankel</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[House OKs $81.4 Billion in War Spending]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A40248-2005Mar16.html?nav=rss_world/issues/foreignaid</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A40248-2005Mar16.html?nav=rss_world/issues/foreignaid</guid><pubDate>Sun, 24 Apr 2005 11:05:30 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[The House on Wednesday approved an $81.4 billion emergency spending package for combat and reconstruction in Iraq and Afghanistan, which would push the total cost of the wars beyond $300 billion.]]></description><author> Shailagh Murray</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[U.S. Doctors Treated Yushchenko]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A25430-2005Mar10.html?nav=rss_world/issues/foreignaid</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A25430-2005Mar10.html?nav=rss_world/issues/foreignaid</guid><pubDate>Sun, 24 Apr 2005 11:05:30 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[A team of U.S. doctors, headed by a University of Virginia professor, secretly flew to Vienna in mid-December to assist in the treatment of then-Ukrainian presidential candidate Viktor Yushchenko, according to U.S. officials, two of the doctors and the head of the Austrian clinic visited by Yushchenko.]]></description><author> Glenn Kessler and Rob Stein</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Program's First Grants Set to Aid Madagascar]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A21794-2005Mar9.html?nav=rss_world/issues/foreignaid</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A21794-2005Mar9.html?nav=rss_world/issues/foreignaid</guid><pubDate>Sun, 24 Apr 2005 11:05:30 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[A new U.S. foreign aid program aimed at providing billions to countries with "good government" is poised to approve its first package of grants.]]></description><author> Paul Blustein</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Bush Says Tsunami Aid Benefits U.S.]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A18198-2005Mar8.html?nav=rss_world/issues/foreignaid</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A18198-2005Mar8.html?nav=rss_world/issues/foreignaid</guid><pubDate>Sun, 24 Apr 2005 11:05:30 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[President Bush said Tuesday that the U.S. response to the deadly tsunami has led to a dramatic change in the perception of Americans in many Muslim nations and suggested that this new image could help  in the fight against terrorism.]]></description><author> Jim VandeHei</author></item></channel></rss>