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On July 1, USAID was formally dissolved. In Uganda and Congo, that loss of funding has also broken apart communities that ...

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Israeli Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich is a second-generation West Bank settler who opposes a Palestinian state, talks of resettling Gaza, and uses his stature in Benjamin Netanyahu’s coalition to ...