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The Department of Justice (DOJ) is asking the Supreme Court to lift a district court injunction that currently blocks the administration from withholding $12 billion in foreign aid funds appropriated by Congress. The move has sparked criticism from foreign-aid organizations and Democratic lawmakers, who argued that it threatens to undermine Congress’s constitutional authority over federal spending. Solicitor General D. John Sauer warned the government could be forced to obligate expiring funds without relief. Sauer said, “will effectively force the government to rapidly obligate some $12 billion in foreign-aid funds that would expire September 30 and to continue obligating tens of...

ISLAMABAD: The worst floods in the living memory of Pakistan remained an obvious topic of concern for the diplomatic corps in Islamabad throughout the week as Europeans and especially UN officials questioned the response of the Muslim world to a mammoth disaster wreaking havoc in the second-most populated Muslim country of the world. Few gatherings of foreign emissaries rallied around the unending phases of floods happening in across the country, devastating over 15 million people and destroying over two million acres of standing crops while washing away millions of homes and state structures in over 70 – 37 directly and...