Financial aid
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World leaders are meeting in Paris today for a conference on Lebanon, increasing tensions between France and Israel. The ongoing conflict between Israel and the Iran-backed Hezbollah militant group has displaced more than a million people across Lebanon, killed more than 2,500 and deepened the country’s economic crisis. France’s foreign minister Jean-Noel Barrot says the…
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Speaker Mike Johnson ultimately succeeded in passing foreign aid Saturday, after months of fierce infighting over sending additional funds to Ukraine. Whether he can survive a looming effort to boot him from the speakership still remains to be seen. Johnson had plowed ahead with the votes to send money to Ukraine, Israel and Taiwan despite rising conservative…
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The Democrat-led Senate has passed a $95.34 billion aid package for Ukraine, Israel, Gaza, and Taiwan, amid growing doubts about the legislation’s fate in the Republican-controlled House. The lawmakers approved the measure in a 70-29 vote that exceeded the chamber’s 60-vote threshold for passage and sent the legislation on to the House. Twenty-two Republicans joined most Democrats…
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The House approved $14.5 billion in military aid Thursday for Israel, a muscular U.S. response to the war with Hamas but also a partisan approach by new Speaker Mike Johnson that poses a direct challenge to Democrats and President Joe Biden. In a departure from norms, Johnson’s package required that the emergency aid be offset…
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Germany has “temporarily suspended” financial aid for cooperation with the Palestinian territories as a result of Hamas’ attack on Israel, a spokeswoman for the Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development announced on Monday. The programs will now be reviewed comprehensively and with an open outcome, Katharian Koufen told a press briefing in Berlin. She…
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