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Calling Petro ‘drug leader,’ Trump halts U.S. aid to Colombia, a key ally in region
Calling Colombian President Gustavo Petro “an illegal drug leader,” President Donald Trump announced Sunday the end of all U.S. aid to the South American country, upending the relationship with ...
AOL
Opinion - South Africa’s corruption makes it a risk to the global financial system
President Trump took the world by surprise when he cut off U.S. foreign aid to South Africa earlier this year. In a February executive order, he cited Pretoria’s “aggressive positions towards ...
Reuters
Trump administration planning 7,500-person refugee ceiling, sources say
WASHINGTON, Oct 3 (Reuters) - President Donald Trump's administration is preparing to set a refugee admissions cap at 7,500 people this fiscal year, a record low that prioritizes white South ...
Yahoo
The Future of U.S.-Africa Trade
The African Growth and Opportunity Act (AGOA) expired on Tuesday. For 25 years, the trade pact offered many African countries duty-free access to the U.S. market. Its termination could impact more ...
The Spokesman-Review
Judge halts Trump administration cuts to disaster aid for ‘sanctuary’ states
A federal judge on Tuesday temporarily halted a Trump administration plan to reduce disaster relief and anti-terrorism funding for states with so-called sanctuary policies for undocumented ...
The New York Times
Trump Revives Foreign Aid, Helping Needy Billionaires
Reporting on the world can be heartbreaking. We journalists cover wars, earthquakes and massacres, and for all the emotional armor of our professionalism we are haunted by memories of children’s ...
The Hill
South Africa’s corruption makes it a risk to the global financial system
President Trump took the world by surprise when he cut off U.S. foreign aid to South Africa earlier this year. In a February executive order, he cited Pretoria’s “aggressive positions towards ...