Haiti Earthquake The European Union on Monday pledged nearly $200 million in short-term aid to help Haiti recover from the earthquake and is earmarking almost $300 million in longer-term assistance. Individual European countries have also pledged more than $100 million. European Union ministers meeting in Brussels agreed to boost support for Haiti, ravaged by a devastating earthquake that struck last... 

Wondering what’s with this awful Financial Crisis and where’s your money? Here they are. Bailouts and Handouts! US President Barack Obama has signed the foreign aid budget law for 2010 which includes the granting of $2.775 billion in security aid to Israel. The Israeli Ynet news website reported that the budget signed by Obama, for the first time, also grants $500 million to the Palestinian... 

African leaders will ask rich nations for $67 billion per year to mitigate the impact of global warming on the world’s poorest continent, according to a draft resolution seen by Reuters on Monday. Ten leaders are holding talks at African Union (AU) headquarters in the Ethiopian capital to try to agree a common stance ahead of a U.N. summit on climate change in Copenhagen in December. Experts...