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“.. four months after its establishment, the board’s financial fund set up by the World Bank has received no money from donors, according to four people familiar with the matter. ‘Zero dollars have been deposited,’ one said.” @financialtimes.com www.ft.com/content/5ba3...
Nicholas Enrich was an eyewitness to the dismantling of the US foreign aid organization by the Trump administration
‘Ignorance and cruelty’: former USAID official details devastation inflicted by Doge cutswww.theguardian.com
After saying the sanctions waiver for Russia would not be extended, the administration extends it on Friday night. Outrageous and shameful. Putin continues to be a major winner from the Iran War. www.foreign.senate.gov/press/dem/re...
Shaheen, Schumer, Warren Statement on Trump Administration Extending Sanctions Relief for Russian Oil | United States Senate Committee on Foreign RelationsWASHINGTON – Today, U.S. Senators Jeanne Shaheen (D-NH), Ranking Member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, Chuck Schumer (D-NY), Senate...www.foreign.senate.gov
It’s as if the Iran war was fought to sustain the Russian economy. Lifting sanctions for Russians does nothing for Americans. It just makes it easier for Russia to continue its war in Ukraine.
Anton Gerashchenko❗️The U.S. has extended the license for operations involving Russian oil. The U.S. Department of the Treasury has extended a license allowing transactions involving Russian oil and petroleum products that were loaded onto vessels before April 17. Such transactions are now permitted until May 16.
Jokes aside, this is an incredibly important day for freedom and democracy and, most importantly, for basic common sense and human dignity, in the spirit of 1989.
Hungary has chosen Europe. Europe has always chosen Hungary. A country reclaims its European path. The Union grows stronger.
Secretary of State Marco Rubio at UFC in Miami tonight as diplomatic negotiations with Iran fail (Julia Demaree Nikhinson/AFP via Getty)
Nothing I could say about the GOP base is as illustrative as the fact that Trump understands that posting black people in what his audience considers a “white space” will make them incandescently angry bsky.app/profile/atru...
Aaron RuparDonald Trump just posted a video of Somali people enjoying the Mall of America to the soundtrack of “Mad World” because he is a bigoted POS
The xx played their first concert in eight years in Mexico City tonight. The UK trio's Jamie xx, Romy, and Oliver Sim have all released solo albums in the past couple of years, but their fourth album together is on the way.
