Word: embargos
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...moment, Hamas officials are reduced to smuggling suitcases of cash into Gaza to pay salaries to government employees. But Arabs states were so outraged that the U.S. used its veto power to stop a U.N. resolution condemning the Israel killings in Gaza that they vowed to break the embargo and start sending funds to the Palestinians. In Cairo, say insiders, the Europeans, the U.N. and the Russians began distancing themselves from the hard-line U.S. stance, claiming that the new Palestinian government should be given a chance...
...between the Fatah organization of President Mahmoud Abbas and the Islamist militants of Hamas, led by Prime Minister Ismael Haniyeh. Following the shelling, the two sides broke off talks to form a technocrat-led coalition government that would temper Hamas's militancy and allow international donors to lift their embargo on funds and most aid to the Palestinian territories...
...DIED. Henry Fok Ying-tung, 83, low-key Hong Kong tycoon who was one of the Chinese leadership's most trusted advisers; in Beijing. During the Korean War, Fok defied a U.S. embargo and dispatched aid to China. In ensuing years, Beijing showered him with business contracts and official honors. Fok, an aide told reporters, was "a true patriot...
...talk about something substantive, it might even make the campus a more enjoyable and social place. This entails a risk, I know, and I myself can easily picture dining hall conversations gone bad—“NO, we shouldn’t put an embargo on North Korea! I hate you! I am going to cancel our facebook friendship like right...
...quality, illicit cigars. To Harvard students, it’s the newest academic destination of choice. This spring, Harvard will offer a study abroad program at the University of Havana, an experience that would “otherwise be illegal for U.S. citizens and residents because of the U.S. embargo on trade with Cuba,” says the Web site for the Office of International Programs (OIP). Study in Cuba has recently become more difficult because of new regulations that make it trickier for Harvard to obtain licenses from the Office of Foreign Assets Control. The new rules, says...