As Trump pivots to Russia, allies weigh sharing less intel with U.S. — NBC News

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As Trump piv­ots to Rus­sia, allies weigh shar­ing less intel with U.S.  NBC News ‘What the Hell Is Hap­pen­ing to Your Coun­try?’  The Atlantic Why some U.S. allies are reassess­ing intel­li­gence shar­ing with the Trump admin­is­tra­tion  MSNBC Amer­i­­ca-Led Spy Net­work Risks Col­lapse Over Trump-Rus­sia Fears  Newsweek Trump deep­ens NATO’s cri­sis of trust on shar­ing intel  POLITICO Europe

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Citizens of the ‘country no one has heard of’ reply to Trump — BBC Africa

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In a recent speech in the US Con­gress, Pres­i­dent Don­ald Trump said that the US would be cut­ting aid to Lesotho, adding that it was an African nation that “nobody has ever heard of”. We took to the streets of Maseru, Lesotho’s cap­i­tal city, to get their reac­tions.  #Lesotho #don­aldtrump #Trumpon­Le­sotho Sub­scribe: http://bit.ly/subscribetoafrica Web­site: https://www.bbc.com/africa…

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Top Trump allies hold secret talks with Zelenskyy’s Ukrainian opponents

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KYIV — Four senior mem­bers of Don­ald Trump’s entourage have held secret dis­cus­sions with some of Kyiv’s top polit­i­cal oppo­nents to Volodymyr Zelen­skyy, just as Wash­ing­ton aligns with Moscow in seek­ing to lever the Ukrain­ian pres­i­dent out of his job.  The senior Trump allies held talks with Ukrain­ian oppo­si­tion leader Yulia Tymoshenko, a remorse­less­ly ambi­tious former…

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Chimamanda: ‘It’s important to be read in Africa’ — BBC Africa

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She has been list­ed as one of Time Mag­a­zine’s ‘100 Most Influ­en­tial Peo­ple’. Her essay ‘We Should All Be Fem­i­nists’, was even sam­pled by Bey­on­cé and copied onto T‑shirts. Now, the Niger­ian-born, US-based author Chi­ma­man­da Ngozi Adichie is releas­ing her new book, ‘Dream Count’. It marks a high­ly antic­i­pat­ed return to fic­tion after more than…

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Malawi university students feel impact of US aid freeze

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https://gdb.voanews.com/01000000–0aff-0242–2de2-08dbcc5cef27_w800_h450.jpgBLANTYRE, MALAWI — Pub­lic uni­ver­si­ties in Malawi have ordered all stu­dents spon­sored by USAID to drop out or seek oth­er sources of fund­ing if they want to remain in school. This fol­lows the 90-day freeze on U.S. for­eign assis­tance recent­ly announced by Pres­i­dent Don­ald Trump. How­ev­er, Malawi’s gov­ern­ment says it is work­ing to ensure that stu­dents can…

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