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2013.</media:description></media:content></item><item><title><![CDATA[G-7 Nixes ‘Two-State Solution’ to Push Through Communique]]></title><link>https://staging.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-03-14/g-7-cuts-two-state-solution-phrase-to-push-through-communique</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://staging.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-03-14/g-7-cuts-two-state-solution-phrase-to-push-through-communique</guid><category><![CDATA[markets]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[Donato Paolo Mancini]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Fri, 14 Mar 2025 14:16:17 GMT</pubDate><media:content url="https://assets.bwbx.io/images/users/iqjWHBFdfxIU/ihL5Xvh35qDw/v1/piHJkQ_WoLj1E/-1x-1.jpg" type="image/jpeg"><media:thumbnail url="https://assets.bwbx.io/images/users/iqjWHBFdfxIU/ihL5Xvh35qDw/v1/piHJkQ_WoLj1E/-1x-1.jpg"/><media:description>The G7 foreign ministers meeting in La Malbaie, Quebec, on March 13.</media:description></media:content></item><item><title><![CDATA[USAID Official Orders Staff to Destroy 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Explained]]></title><link>https://staging.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-03-05/usaid-why-is-trump-attacking-it-what-are-the-effects</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://staging.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-03-05/usaid-why-is-trump-attacking-it-what-are-the-effects</guid><dc:creator><![CDATA[Iain Marlow]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Wed, 05 Mar 2025 23:42:12 GMT</pubDate><media:content url="https://assets.bwbx.io/images/users/iqjWHBFdfxIU/i52JfdU14liw/v1/piHJkQ_WoLj1E/-1x-1.jpg" type="image/jpeg"><media:thumbnail url="https://assets.bwbx.io/images/users/iqjWHBFdfxIU/i52JfdU14liw/v1/piHJkQ_WoLj1E/-1x-1.jpg"/><media:description>Volunteers unload wheat flour that were part of an aid delivery from USAID in Bahir Dar, Ethiopia, in 2021.</media:description></media:content></item></channel></rss>