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Wednesday, March 18, 2026
TopicUS humanitarian aid

Topic: US humanitarian aid

Trump administration memo tells USAID to put “America First” in reviewing foreign aid

The sharply-worded memo sent Saturday to USAID staff effectively put a sweeping freeze on US foreign aid worldwide.

US to provide $144 million in humanitarian aid for people of Afghanistan

The assistance will be provided to independent international, non-governmental humanitarian organisations, including UNHCR, UNICEF, IOM and WHO following monitoring, Blinken said.

On Camera

Priyanka Chopra and Shah Rukh Khan don’t owe us their political opinion

The expectation that every Indian celebrity must behave like Meryl Streep or Leonardo DiCaprio is misplaced. This is not Hollywood.

Covid, sanctions, war. Life’s rough for Surat’s small diamond units, salaries ‘not guaranteed anymore’

West Asia war threatens to push already fragile industry deeper into crisis. Latest disruption is playing out differently for bigger and small-scale players in Surat’s diamond industry.

Supreme Leader Mojtaba, the man Iran must keep alive & the secret force ‘tasked with it’—all about NOPO

The Nirouyeh Vijeh Pasdaran Velayat, or NOPO, was the only force Ali Khamenei trusted.It was founded in 1991 and is more feared than the Revolutionary Guards.

Peaceful power transfers followed uprisings in India’s neighbourhood. It’s a sign of mature democracies

Rating democracies is a tricky business. I am only using the simple metric of who in the Indian subcontinent has had the most peaceful, stable, normal political transitions and continuity.