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GERD is still giving us <\/strong>GERD<\/strong><\/a>: <\/strong>Officials from Egypt, Sudan and Ethiopia meet in Addis Ababa today<\/a> to chew over the environmental impact of Ethiopia\u2019s Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam (or GERD, as it\u2019s known). It\u2019s the latest development in shuttle diplomacy on an issue that could have deep, long-term impact on downstream nations \u2014 us in particular.<\/p>\n

Federal judge pulls the plug on Trump\u2019s third travel ban a day before it was meant to <\/strong>come into effect:<\/strong> A federal judge in Hawaii issued a nationwide ruling on Tuesday that will \u201cprevent the Trump administration from stopping almost all travel to the US indefinitely from most of the countries named in the ban,\u201d the NYT reports<\/a>. The verdict came one day before the third iteration of the ban was set to take effect, stating that it \u201c\u2018suffers from precisely the same maladies as its predecessor,\u2019\u201d as it violates the US constitution with its \u201cplain\u201d nationality-based discrimination. The ban targets individuals from Muslim-majority nations.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

GERD is still giving us GERD: Officials from Egypt, Sudan and Ethiopia meet in Addis Ababa today to chew over the environmental impact of Ethiopia\u2019s Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam (or GERD, as it\u2019s known). 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