{"id":220913,"date":"2016-02-02T15:38:35","date_gmt":"2016-02-02T15:38:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/?p=220913"},"modified":"2016-02-02T15:43:02","modified_gmt":"2016-02-02T15:43:02","slug":"london-host-syria-fund-raising","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/breaking-news\/london-host-syria-fund-raising\/","title":{"rendered":"London to host Syria fund raising"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p><strong>The capital of Britain, London is set to host world leaders who will come together to try to raise $9 for the millions of Syrians hit by the country&#8217;s conflict and a refugee crisis spanning Europe and the Middle East.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The donor conference, the fourth of its kind is slated for Thursday. It\u00a0hopes to meet the UN\u2019s demand for $7.73 billion to help in Syria plus $1.23 billion assistance for countries in the region affected by the crisis.<\/p>\n<p>More than 70 international leaders are expected to take part in the summit including \u00a0German Chancellor Angela Merkel, UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon, Jordan&#8217;s King Abdullah II, Lebanese Prime Minister Tammam Salam and Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi.<\/p>\n<p>Jordan has accommodated more than 630,000 Syrian refugees and Abdullah warned earlier that his debt-riddled country needed help to ease the burden or Europe would face the consequences.<\/p>\n<p>The Syrian war, which began in March 2011, has claimed more than 260,000 lives and caused a major humanitarian crisis.<\/p>\n<p>The conflict has forced 4.6 million Syrians to seek refuge in countries in the region &#8211; Jordan, Lebanon, Turkey, Iraq and Egypt. Meanwhile, hundreds of thousands have attempted to reach Europe, sometimes paying with their lives while making the risky Mediterranean Sea crossing.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.presstv.ir\/Detail\/2016\/02\/02\/448415\/London-to-host-Syria-fund-raising\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The capital of Britain, London is set to host world leaders who will come together to try to raise $9 for the millions of Syrians hit by the country&#8217;s conflict and a refugee crisis spanning Europe and the Middle East. The donor conference, the fourth of its kind is slated for Thursday. It\u00a0hopes to meet [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":220914,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[487],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-220913","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-breaking-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/220913","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=220913"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/220913\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/220914"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=220913"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=220913"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=220913"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}