CNN gets close-up look of NATO’s mission to protect undersea cables after some were damaged
CNN International Diplomatic Editor Nic Robertson reports from the Baltic Sea after an undersea fiber optic cable between Latvia and Sweden was damaged, likely as a result of external influence, ...
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Trump administration takes first anti-abortion move on world stage
Secretary of State Marco Rubio instructed the U.S. Mission to the United Nations in a confidential diplomatic cable issued Friday to notify countries that it plans to re-join the so-called Geneva ...
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US foreign aid freeze is upending global aid and the work of contractors
The extent of the impacts of the Trump administration’s sudden 90-day freeze of almost all foreign aid is still unclear ...
Ambassador Tells Rubio U.S.A.I.D. Cuts Would Cause ‘Major Vulnerability’ in Africa
Other diplomats across the continent are sending similar cables to the secretary of state to try to maintain lifesaving aid ...
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How spending $153M to pay its bills put USAID in DOGE’s crosshairs
It was Thursday, Jan. 23, and the Trump administration official had discovered that the U.S. Agency for International Development recently made $153 million in payments for a range of expenses.
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How spending $153M to pay its bills put USAID in DOGE’s crosshairs
Just three days earlier, newly inaugurated President Donald Trump had issued an executive order halting new foreign aid spending, and Marocco was already drafting a diplomatic cable, due to go out the ...
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US foreign aid freeze is upending global aid and the work of contractors
The suspension of foreign aid was outlined in a diplomatic cable from Secretary of State Marco Rubio last Friday. In addition to widespread confusion around ongoing aid projects, the suspension ...
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German envoy warns Trump 'driven by vengeance' — reports
had recently penned a diplomatic write-up in which he warned of the threats US democracy will face under the incoming president, Donald Trump, and his team. In the five-page confidential cable ...
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US freezes almost all foreign aid
Secretary of State Marco Rubio sent a cable, seen by CNN, to all US diplomatic posts on Friday outlining the move, which threatens billions of dollars of funding from the State Department and the ...
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Europe planning to seize Putin’s shadow fleet
European countries are considering seizing Russia’s secret fleet in the Baltic Sea following multiple incidents involving undersea cables. A draft law is currently being prepared to allow the seizure ...
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The Undersea Cable War
The deployment follows multiple suspected acts of sabotage targeting Europe’s undersea cables. Add another threat ... from financial transactions to diplomatic communications to video streaming.
Kevin Rudd: ‘President Trump could deter China from World War Three’
Australia’s Ambassador to the US previously branded Trump a ‘village idiot’ – but his expertise on Xi Jinping could be ...