Palestinian Prime Minister Salam Fayyad replaced almost half of his West Bank-based Cabinet on Wednesday, a clear sign that efforts to end the Palestinian political split are stuck.
The late Yasser Arafat's powerful moneyman is the target of the highest-profile Palestinian corruption probe to date, facing allegations he syphoned off millions of dollars in public funds, the chief investigator said Wednesday.
RAMALLAH, West Bank (Reuters) - A Palestinian leader widely credited by the West with introducing transparency to a corruption-plagued and donor-dependent economy lost his job as finance minister in a government reshuffle on Wednesday. Although he is relinquishing the treasury portfolio, Salam Fayyad will retain his other post as prime minister in a shakeup born of a financial crisis in the West Bank-based Palestinian Authority and a deadlock over implementing a power-sharing deal with rival Hamas Islamists who control the Gaza Strip. ...
The shadowy financial adviser of the late Yasser Arafat is being sought on suspicion he stole millions of dollars in public funds, the top Palestinian anti-corruption campaigner said Wednesday.
A Palestinian demonstrator kicks a burning tyre down the road as clashes broke out with Israeli soldiers during protests outside Ofer Prison, near the West Bank city of Ramallah, marking Nakba Day, which commemorates the exodus of hundreds of thousands of their kin after the establishment of Israel state in 1948.
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