Word: aid
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...only fund the government from April through September. Still, it's a real window into their priorities: a 21% increase for worthy low-income nutrition programs, a 13% hike for the already bloated Agriculture Department, a long-overdue 10% boost for Amtrak, cuts for Bush-era abstinence and foreign aid programs, zero for a Bush-era reading program plagued by cronyism and mismanagement. The budget is also notable for what it does not include: any reforms of the haphazard ways Congress throws money at infrastructure, agriculture, energy, health care and other big-ticket spending items...
...money would come in a massive economic-aid package, the Kerry-Lugar bill, which would send $1.5 billion to Pakistan for each of the next five years - although how that aid would be distributed, a crucial question given Pakistan's rampant corruption, has yet to be determined. Military aid to Pakistan will continue as well, but with more strings and supervision than during the Bush Administration. "We have to re-establish close personal relationships with the army," said a senior member of the National Security Council, who was involved in an intense series of meetings with the Pakistani military leadership...
...Western aid groups in Darfur were forced to close clinics and put off a meningitis vaccination campaign Thursday because of the Sudanese government's decision to revoke their registration hours after President Omar al-Bashir was made the target of an international arrest warrant...
...aid groups were told to suspend operations by Sunday, three days before the International Criminal Court issued an arrest warrant for al-Bashir on charges of war crimes and crimes against humanity in Darfur. Just hours after the arrest warrant was announced Wednesday, Sudan's Humanitarian Aid Commission told the groups that their registration was being revoked. (See pictures of Darfur descending into chaos...
...Thursday, the government announced it was expelling three more groups. Most of the aid organizations worked in Darfur, providing things such as water, proper sanitation, food and medical assistance to hundreds of thousands of people in the troubled region. The groups say they have no clear idea why they had been targeted, and their aid efforts in the autonomous region of South Sudan have not been affected. "We've actually received no official reason or explanation," said Kurt Tjossem, Regional Director for the Horn and East Africa at the International Rescue Committee. "We did ask them on what grounds...