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On Monday, President Trump said he could cut aid in Jordan and Egypt if they had refused his request to permanently assume most of the Palestinians from Gaza, substantially increasing the pressure on the key allies of the region to support his bold proposal to transfer The entire population of the population of the territory to redevelop it."If they did not agree, I would conceively retain help," Trump told journalists in the Oval Office a day before a meeting with the King Abdullah II of Jordan.Both Jordan and Egypt rejected any suggestion that the Palestinians were transferred to their countries.Mr. Trump doubled the idea of ​​forced displacement of about two million Palestinians, a move that some scholars said that he is equivalent to a war crime and ethnic cleaning. In an interview wit...

For decades, sub-Saharan Africa was a singular focus of American foreign aid. The continent received over $ 8 billion a year, money that was used to feed hungry children, provide rescue drugs and provide humanitarian assistance in war.In a few weeks, President Trump and the South African billionaire Elon Musk have burned most of that work on the ground, swearing to completely gut the US agency for international development completely."Close it!" On Friday he wrote Trump on social media, accusing the corruption and fraud agency not specified.On Friday, a federal judge has stopped, for now, some elements of Mr. Trump's attempt to close the agency. But the speed and shock of the actions of the Administration have already led to the confusion, fear and even paranoia in the USAID offices throug...

European travel for passenger railways continue to expand, with a burst of new routes that open and the competition that heat up on key routes, also on the railway line that runs under the sleeve canal. To simplify the booking process in Europe, the plans could also make rail travel more easy and efficient.The European Commission is encouraging the push. At his confirmation hearing in November, Apostolos Tzitzikostas, the new European commissioner for sustainable transport and tourism, said that the connection of European cities for high -speed railway is "an absolute priority". He also promised to present a draft regulation for a single booking and digital ticket office for European Rail before the end of his first year in charge, which will fall on December 1st.The demand for train trave...

The newspapers throughout the country owned by the Media Lee Enterprises company have not been able to print, had problems with their websites and published smaller problems after a computer attack last week, said the company.In a declaration sent via email on Sunday, Lee Enterprises said that the company was facing interruptions of its daily operations due to a "IT security event" and that he had informed the police.Lee Enterprises is the parent company of over 70 daily newspapers, such as St. Louis Post-Spatch, and almost 350 weekly and special publications in 25 states, including Alabama, New York and Oregon. The company did not say how the attack has happened or who was behind."Now we are focused on determining which information - if present - may have been influenced by the situation,...

Doron Steinbrcher promised that he would never wear the squad again when he made his first public comments in a video after being freed for more than 15 months in captivity of Hamas in Gaza.A year ago, he had appeared in a hostage video made by his kidnappers who wore a pale pink sweatshirt. When the Palestinian militant group Hamas published his last month, he was dressed in a brilliant Magenta track dress and seemed pale.Sitting in front of a camera again brought her back to the difficult moments in which her kidnappers filmed her in Gaza, said Mrs. Steinbricher, 31 years old, in the video, sometimes composed and smiling."This time, I am comfortably sitting on a sofa with my family looking at me in a warm and pleasant place," he said. Trying to communicate that he had not been broken, he...

Susan F. Wood, an expert of female health that has resigned for protest of the food and drug Administration in 2005, accusing the Knuckling agency under politics not approving the counter sales of the morning pill known as Piano B, is died on January 17th in his house in London. He was 66 years old.The cause was the multifaceted cerebral glooblastoma, said Richard Payne, her husband.Dr. Wood was assistant commissioner for women's health at the FDA during the presidency of George W. Bush when plan B, a form of emergency contraception, became a flash point in the abortion wars.A consultative panel of the FDA voted 28-0 in 2003 that the pill was sure for the non-prescription use. But high officials of the agency have ignored the previous one and refused to approve the counter sales.Plan B con...

Since it entered office, President Trump has threatened the security and economies of European countries, angled to take control of Greenland and has promised to "certainly" slap nations with rates. Even the parts that would seem to be its natural allies are nervous. Some have returned to the tip of feet by the American president.But on Saturday it was not the day of the disputes. The leaders of the far -right parties in Europe came to Madrid for what, at least on the surface, equivalent to a manifestation of the names of the names in bold for a new era of Trump.There was marine the pen of the far -right national demonstration in France; the Dutch populist, Geert Wilders; The leader of the Italian championship party, Matteo Salvini. Everyone clarified that they shared the accusation of Mr....

All'inaugurazione del presidente Trump, Sam Altman, amministratore delegato di Openai, è stato retrocesso nella stanza di overflow mentre altri miliardari tecnologici come Elon Musk e Mark Zuckerberg hanno preso i punti privilegiati sul dais sotto il Capitol Rotunda.Ma giorni prima, prima di volare a Washington, Altman era al telefono con il signor Trump, preparando un annuncio che avrebbe superato il signor Musk e metteva la compagnia del signor Altman al centro dell'agenda della nuova amministrazione per l'intelligenza artificiale.Alla chiamata di 25 minuti, Altman ha fatto appello all'amore del signor Trump per una grande storia e di un grosso problema. Altman ha dichiarato al presidente eletto che l'industria tecnologica avrebbe raggiunto l'intelligenza generale artificiale-l'ipotetico...

Hamas released three other Israeli hostages on Saturday as part of an exchange of Palestinian prisoners, in a highly theatrical delivery in which men were made to keep the speeches effectively under arms.The hostage version is the fifth of a series of tense exchanges that are part of an agreement of ceased the ceased of 42 days which entered into force last month by making a break to the fighting between Israel and Hamas. Hamas agreed to relent them in an incremental way 33 of the almost 100 hostages remained in exchange for over 1,000 Palestinians imprisoned by Israel and a partial Israeli retreat.Here is a more attentive look at the Israelis published on Saturday:Ohad ben am"The only important thing is that Ohad Torni," said Raz Ben Ami at the New York Times in August, adding: "It is sti...

The funds of the richest nation in the world once flowed from the largest global aid agency to a complex network of small, medium and large organizations that provided aid: drugs for HIV for over 20 million people; Nutritional supplements for hungry children; Support for refugees, orphaned children and women affected by violence.Now, that network is revealing. The Trump administration has frozen foreign aid for 90 days and planned to sell off the US agency for international development just 5 percent of its workforce, although a federal judge paused the plan on Friday. Given the wars and the financial economies, it is unlikely that other governments or philanthropies are compensated for deficiency and the nations intended are too hindered by the debt to manage on their own.The largest orga...