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President Barack Obama has ordered the suspension of $800 million in aid to the Pakistani military, his chief of staff said Sunday, as part of what experts say is a tougher line with a critical U.S. partner in the fight against terrorism.
Based on the (confusing) data provided by the United States government, the amounts shown in Table I above apparently do not include funds requested for multiple regional foreign aid offices serving two or more countries. Nor do they seem to include
Adm. Mike Mullen said there shouldn't be any rush to terminate military assistance to President Mubarak's government. U.S. assistance to Egypt, which has averaged about $1.3 billion a year, Mullen said Congress shouldn't move too hastily to cancel th
One of the Senate's newest members has settled upon an idea to reduce American debt that's likely to come off as highly controversial in the halls of power: ending ALL foreign aid, including the tens of billions dedicated to Israel.
BEIJING (AP) -- China spent tens of billions of dollars on a dazzling 2008 Olympics. It has sent astronauts into space. It recently became the world's second largest economy. Yet it gets more than $2.5 billion a year in foreign government aid - and t
The National Institute of Mental Health, a division of the National Institutes of Health, spent $823,200 of economic stimulus funds in 2009 to teach uncircumcised African men how to wash their genitals after having sex.
What you might not have heard is that your hard earned taxpayer dollars are also being used to buy well-connected Afghans posh villas in Dubai.
This is not a natural disaster story. This is a poverty story. It’s a story about poorly constructed buildings, bad infrastructure and terrible public services. On Thursday, President Obama told the people of Haiti: “You will not be forsaken; you wil
Cuba already had 344 doctors and other health professionals working full time in Haiti under an agreement with the Haitian government. Victor Geneus, Haiti’s ambassador to Havana, thanked the Cuban people and government for their assistance in such
The USA, he said, could “make sure that Pakistan’s nuclear arsenal is secure—primarily, initially, because the Pakistan Army, I think, recognizes the hazards of those weapons’ falling into the wrong hands.” The questioner, Chuck Todd, of NBC, began
Dambisa Moyo is a beautiful, Zambian-born, Harvard educated economist who is sick of being victimized by Hollywood celebrities and foreign aid. In her book "Dead Aid" Ms. Moyo explains why foreign aid is not working and how there is a bette
Iqbal Quadir tells how his experiences as a kid in poor Bangladesh, and later as a banker in New York, led him to start a mobile phone operator connecting 80 million rural Bangladeshi -- and to become a champion of bottom-up development.
