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USAID staffers told to stay out of Washington headquarters after Musk said Trump agreed to close it

WASHINGTON (AP) — Staffers of the U.S. Agency for International Development were instructed to stay out of the agency’s Washington headquarters today, according to a notice distributed to them, after…

John McCarthy February 3, 2025

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As part of Trump aid freeze, police contractors are laid off in Haiti amid gang attacks

PORT-AU-PRINCE — Experts on policing who were contracted by the U.S. government to help a crisis-wracked Haiti take down heavily armed violent gangs are among the first casualties of a…

John McCarthy January 29, 2025

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UN chief asks Trump for additional exceptions to his foreign-aid freeze

NEW YORK — United Nations Secretary-General António Guterres is asking the Trump administration to provide additional exemptions to a 90-day freeze on all U.S. foreign aid. Guterres’ spokesman, Stéphane Dujarric,…

John McCarthy January 28, 2025

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China’s Belt And Road Initiative Snags Cuba On Christmas Day

My recent pair of articles based on an interview with Professor David Arase of the Hopkins-Nanjing Center, published in Asia Times under the title Belt & Road Phase 2 moves beyond…

Scott Foster January 8, 2022