With immediate aid still held up and future food procurements in limbo, a former USAID official warns of “a global catastrophe.”

In a seven-page order, U.S. District Court Judge Amir Ali seemed troubled by complaints from aid groups that much of the funding remained on hold despite his Feb. 13 order suspend

Swedish police said on Friday they were investigating a suspected case of sabotage of an undersea telecoms cable in the Baltic Sea, and the country's coast guard deployed a vessel to the area where multiple seabed cables have been damaged in recent months.