Lauren Kent
Breaking news journalist @CNN focusing on EMEA regions. Views are my own/all that other legal stuff. Have less. Do more. Go Heels.
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cnn.com | Lauren Kent
A mother measures her child’s arm using a tool to detect malnutrition, as part of ALIMA’s project in the Bandiagara region of central Mali, which received funding via the PRO initiative. Alioune Ndiaye/ALIMA CNN — In a warehouse in northeast Nigeria, a nonprofit’s stocks of food to treat malnourished children and pregnant women are running low.
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2 weeks ago |
cnn.com | Lauren Kent
A UK aid label is attached to a box containing kitchen sets at a UK aid Disaster Response Centre in Gloucestershire, England. PA Images/Alamy London CNN — Western countries have slashed foreign aid budgets this year and reductions will steepen in 2026, with the United States, United Kingdom, Germany and Canada cutting the most, according to a new analysis from the Center for Global Development (CGD).
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2 weeks ago |
cnn.com | Lauren Kent |Nimi Princewill
A health worker writes down a child's details after testing for malaria in Lilongwe, Malawi, in an undated photo. Benny Khanyizira/UNICEF/Handout/Reuters/File Abuja, Nigeria CNN — Cuts to US-funded malaria programs are adding to a host of issues confronting Congolese mother Mwayuma Idi Feza, whose city, Goma, is at the center of the country’s intensifying conflict and run by a vicious militia. “I have a child who is sick.
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currently.att.yahoo.com | Lauren Kent |Eugenia Yosef
The United Kingdom, Canada and other allies announced sanctions Tuesday on two hardline Israeli government ministers for repeatedly “inciting violence against Palestinians,” in a stark joint move that comes amid growing Western condemnation of Israel’s actions in the occupied West Bank and Gaza. National Security Minister Itamar Ben Gvir and Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich will face a travel ban and an asset freeze, the UK government said.
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yahoo.com | Lauren Kent |Eugenia Yosef
The United Kingdom and other Western allies have imposed sanctions on two hardline Israeli government ministers for “repeated incitements of violence against Palestinian communities” in the West Bank, Britain’s foreign office announced Tuesday. National Security Minister Itamar Ben Gvir and Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich will face a travel ban and an asset freeze in the UK, the government said.
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House Republicans on Thursday agreed to cancel $9.4 billion in federal spending for foreign aid and public radio and broadcasting, marking the first time Congress has formally weighed in on Elon Musk’s DOGE cuts (from CNN's @sarahnferris) https://t.co/mvmlgPgNAe
RT @ctrlamb: The first Mass celebrated Pope Leo XIV: speaking in English, two female readers, the use of the forward altar in the Sistine C…
Robert Francis Prevost was born in Chicago. But inside the Vatican, where he eventually lived and worked, he was considered the “least American” of the US cardinals. Here’s what else you should know about the new American pontiff https://t.co/6k1zasmAu5