Russia To Donate Wheat, Fuel To Lebanon After Suspending Grain Deal

 Lebanon will receive 25,000 tonnes of wheat and 10,000 tonnes of fuel free of charge from Russia, Acting Lebanese Minister of Public Works and Transport Ali Hamia told Sputnik on Tuesday.

WhatsApp Founder Gives $2 Million to Pro-Israel Lobby Group to Defeat Pro-Palestine Candidates - Tasnim News Agency

The founder of WhatsApp made a record $2 million donation to the pro-Israel lobby group American Israel Public Affairs Committee's (AIPAC) campaign in the Democratic primaries in the US last month.

World Bank approves $723m in loans, grants for Ukraine | Al Jazeera

The World Bank has said its executive board approved a $723m package of loans and grants for Ukraine, providing government budget support.

Freedom Convoy: US urges Canada to end blockade by truckers - BBC News

US officials have urged Canada's government to use its federal powers to end a blockade by truckers protesting against Covid restrictions.

Taliban-led Afghan gov't thanks China over donation - China.org.cn

Chinese and Afghan officials inaugurated the construction of a mosque and two wells in the Ministry of Justice of Afghanistan on Sunday.

Canada to donate 17.7M COVID vaccine doses for poorer countries - AA

Canada will donate 17.7 million AstraZeneca vaccine doses to help inoculate people in Third World countries, the government announced Monday.

G7 agrees 1 billion COVID vaccine donation | THE DAILY STAR

Group of Seven countries will provide 1 billion COVID-19 vaccine doses over the next year and work with the private sector, the G20 and other countries to increase the contribution over months to come, according to an almost finalised draft of the communique.

Google Says It Won't Donate to Lawmakers Who Voted Against Certifying Election Results - FARS

 (FNA)- Lawmakers who voted against certifying the election results won't be getting donations from Google this cycle.

Aid pledge to Syrians by int'l donors falls short of expectation

International donors Wednesday were expected to pledge 4.4 billion US dollars in aid for Syrian people, falling short of UN and EU expectations.

Syrie: conférence des donateurs à Bruxelles pour éviter un désastre humanitaire

Les Nations unies ont mis en garde mardi contre un nouveau désastre humanitaire en Syrie, à Idleb, lors d'une conférence des donateurs à Bruxelles en faveur des 5 millions de Syriens réfugiés dans les pays voisins et des 6,1 millions de déplacés internes.

UN seeks over $8bn aid for Syria at Kuwait meeting

A major UN donors' conference that aims to raise billions of dollars for Syria has opened today in Kuwait with experts warning of a "humanitarian catastrophe" unfolding in the war-torn country.

China to halt use of organs from executed convicts in 2015 (Patients concerned over longer transplant delays)

The use of transplanted organs taken from executed convicts will cease in the Chinese mainland starting next year, with voluntary donations becoming the only source of organs, authorities announced Wednesday.

Law on special status of Donbass to presuppose co-financing by Kiev, Moscow

There will be guarantees for for a special economic zone, meaning that money earned locally would remain in the region, Ukraine's presidential aide Yuriy Lutsenko says...

KIEV, September 12. /ITAR-TASS/. Ukraine’s new law granting a special status to separate districts of the eastern Donetsk and Luhansk regions will have a provision on a possible voluntary co-financing of those territories by Ukraine and Russia likewise, Yuriy Lutsenko, an aide to President Petro Poroshenko, said Friday.
“The bill on the special status that will be submitted to the parliament next week envisions a special humanitarian status, which reaffirms the guarantees for using the Russian language,” Lutsenko said. “There will also be guarantees for electing deputies of town halls and district councils and for a special economic regime, which I would compare to a special economic zone, meaning that money earned locally would remain in the region.”

Yatsenyuk: No plans to finance restoration in Ukraine’s east from budget

Ukraine’s Finance Ministry will create a special fund to rebuild the country’s eastern Donetsk and Luhansk regions shattered by conflict, Prime Minister Arseniy Yatsenyuk said on Wednesday.

The funds will be replenished only by Ukrainian oligarchs’ donations and international donor aid, Yatsenyuk said.

“We will have a relevant donor conference,” he said, adding that money from the federal budget would be allocated only if the Ukrainian government “regains full control of the territory and enterprises start operating and paying taxes”.