News Wire | August 29, 2023 Archive

EU’s €86 Billion budget Battle Casts Shadow Over Ukraine Funding

By Henry Foy | Financial Times

EU funding to shore up Ukraine is being held up by fractious disagreements among member states, with worries about strained national budgets and rising costs in Brussels threatening the flow of financial support to Kyiv.

Guatemala Progressive’s Presidential Victory Certified, but His Party is Suspended

By Sonia Pérez D. and Megan Janetsky | Associated Press

Progressive candidate Bernardo Arévalo was confirmed the winner of Guatemala’s presidential election by the country’s Supreme Electoral Tribunal on Monday, but the same day another government body ordered his political party suspended.

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