41.   Powell believes international sympathy for Afghanistan will be evident next week in Japan, when donor countries meet to pledge assistance.

42.   Qurei told reporters that the United States also promised to help reel in promised funding from donor countries.

43.   Poorer nations Tuesday all but rejected firm goals by donor countries for anti-poverty spending.

44.   A breakdown of donor countries was not released.

45.   A top U.S. official on Friday promised to spur donor countries into fulfilling pledges to the Palestinian Authority and ease economic hardship aggravated by Israeli restrictions on day laborers.

46.   A prominent human rights group was urging donor countries attending the Tokyo meeting to link development with stipulations that Vietnam improve its human rights record.

47.   Abdel Ghani said Yemeni officials will meet at the end of the month with representatives of donor countries.

48.   A variety of international organizations and individual donor countries are contributing to the highway project.

49.   Abbass said the possibility of secession was blocking economic aid to the mostly agricultural islands, since donor countries were awaiting the outcome of postponed presidential elections.

50.   Almost a week earlier, Karzai spoke at an Afghan reconstruction conference in Japan, appealing to donor countries to be generous.