Wednesday: Trump financing freezing

A legal battle waving on the horizon to freeze Trump’s financing

Several states were planning yesterday to file a lawsuit to prevent President Trump’s order To freeze trillion dollars in grants and federal loans. This step, part of an attempt to reshape the government in its image, followed the cuts to the international aid that was presented last week.

The Trump administration requested organizations in other countries Distributing HIV drugs It was purchased with American aid, even if the drugs are already obtained and they were sitting in local clinics. Many humanitarian organizations in Ukraine said it was He was forced to suspend operations This includes providing assistance to the veterans in war and internally displaced persons.

And in Vietnam, Cambodia and Laos, where Uninterrupted bombs in America from the Vietnam War continues to kill people to this dayThe Foreign Ministry said it is suspending global mining programs for at least three months.

The colleague of Edward Wong, a diplomatic correspondent, said that the leaders of relief organizations told him that they “did not see anything sweeping such a comment for help.”

“Several programs”, Edward told me, “He will not be able to maintain the integrity of their projects if they stop now and then wait for their work to restart later, if they are allowed to restart.”

In the United States: Trump has closed the flow of funds to state offices for medical offices, a program that provides health care for millions of Americans with low incomes, among other services.

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The list of hostages provided by Hamas and confirmed by Israeli intelligence did not specify who was alive and who died by name. As a result, eight families were told that there is a high possibility that their relatives would not be alive.

Today, Trump’s envoy in the Middle East is scheduled He meets with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu Israel and Hamas also prepared for more talks on strengthening the ceasefire. It is also expected to visit the Gaza Strip.

Back to the house: Tens of thousands of Palestinians They arrived at their homes In the north for the first time in more than a year.

Lebanon: Beirut is struggling to see how to clean Wide quantities of the rubble left by the war with Israel.

analysis: The bloodshed in Lebanon highlighted during the weekend, and the tensions in Gaza highlighted the fragility of stopping fire in both places, Our head of our office writes Jerusalem.

The demonstrators attacked the embassies in the Congo

The demonstrators attacked yesterday, looted them and put their fires in many embassies and building the United Nations in the capital of the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Kinshasa. French, United States, Ugandan and Belgian embassies They were among those targeting.

The anger of foreign allies was rising in the Congo because of their inability to stop the attack on the main city of Gouma by M23, a militia by the United Nations and the United States controlled by Rwanda.

Context: Western powers have not yet pressured Rwanda to curb the rebels. Analysts say that the country is seeking to occupy the Congolese lands The looting of its vast metal wealth.

The death of the roads in Vietnam is among the highest in Asia, especially because of the chaotic motorcyclists. The government recently listened to sharp traffic fines and put them – some tickets more than many people in one month.

Now it seems that there is less chaos on the road, although many drivers see the new rules such as More about institutional greed more than safety.

Long live souls: François Bonche, a French Catholic priest who warned the world to the atrocities committed in Cambodia under the Khmer Roj, He died in 86.

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Mona Lisa gets her own room

Mona Lisa’s famous smile will receive visitors close to a new show space in the Louvre Museum. Emmanuel Macron, President of France, said yesterday that the masterpiece will be moved as part of A comprehensive renewal of the museum To treat overcrowding.

Nearly nine million people visit the Louvre Museum every year, and estimated at 80 percent of these in Mona Lisa. Macron aims to increase visitors to 12 million a year and raise ticket prices outside the European Union to pay the price of renewal.

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