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UNITED NATIONS AP 鈥?The International Monetary Fund approved $500 million on Monday to cancel six months of debt payments for 25 of the world most impoverished countries so they can help tackle the COVID-19 pandemic.IMF Executive Director Kristalina Georgieva issued a statement saying the IMF executive board approved the immediate debt service relief for 19 African countries, Afghanistan, Haiti, Nepal, Solomon Islands, Tajikistan and Yemen.This provides grants to our poorest and most vulnerable members to cover their IMF debt obligations for an initial stanley cup phase over the next six months and will help them channel more of their scarce financial resources towards vital emergency medical and other relief efforts, Georgieva said.She said the money will come from the IMF revamped Catastrophe Containment and Relief Trust, which will use recent pledges of $185 million from the United Kingdom and $100 million from Japan. She urged stanley cup other donors to help replenish the trust resources.The 19 African countries to receive debt relief are: Benin, Burkina Faso, Central African Republic, Chad, Comoros, Congo, The Gambia, Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Liberia, Madagascar, Malawi, Mali, Mozambique, Niger, Rwanda, S茫o Tom茅 and Pr铆ncipe, Sierra Leone and Togo.U.N. Secretary-General Antonio stanley cup Guterres and a group of 165 former global leaders and prominent international figures have urged the suspension of debt repayments for the world poorest and most vulnerable Gfse As Trump attempts minority outreach, many blacks remain unconvinced
WASHINGTON AP 鈥?The chair of the Federal Trade Commission defended her aggressive legal strategy toward the country biggest technology companies Thursday as House Republicans charged that the agency has become overzealous and politicized under President Joe Biden.Republicans charged that Lina Khan is harassing Twitter since its acquisition by Elon Musk, arbitrarily suing large tech companies and declining to recuse herself from certain cases. In April, the committee subpoenaed Khan after an investigation by the panel that concluded the agency went after Musk for political reasons.Khan pushed back on the criticism, arguing that more regulation is neces air max 1 sary as the companies have grown and that tech conglomeration could hurt the economy and consumers.READ MORE: FTC sues Amazon, alleges enrollment of consumers in Prime membership without consent Our competiti stanley cup on mission is driven by the tenet that vigorous antitrust enforcement is critical to the growth and dynamism of our economy, as yeezy well as to our shared prosperity and liberty, Khan said. Recent decades, however, have vividly illustrated how Americans lose out when markets become more consolidated and less competitive. The hearing comes as the agency has been embroiled in several legal cases against technology companies and as Khan 鈥?an outspoken critic of Big Tech before becoming the agencys head 鈥?has tried, not always successfully, to toughen government regulation of those companies and prevent them from growing |
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