{"id":40003,"date":"2021-12-23T03:00:03","date_gmt":"2021-12-22T18:00:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/dec\/22\/us-eases-restrictions-sending-aid-famine-hit-afghanistan"},"modified":"2021-12-23T03:00:03","modified_gmt":"2021-12-22T18:00:03","slug":"us-eases-restrictions-on-sending-aid-to-famine-hit-afghanistan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=40003","title":{"rendered":"US eases restrictions on sending aid to famine-hit Afghanistan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Backing is also given to UN resolution exempting most aid from threat of sanctions<\/p>\n<p>The US has eased its restrictions on mainstream humanitarian aid reaching famine-stricken <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/afghanistan\">Afghanistan<\/a> and backed a UN security council resolution exempting most aid from the threat of sanctions.<\/p>\n<p>The US Treasury followed up the UN resolution by broadening the definition of permitted humanitarian assistance to include education \u2013 including salary payments to teachers \u2013 and to permit a broader use of US funds received by aid organisations working inside Afghanistan.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/dec\/22\/us-eases-restrictions-sending-aid-famine-hit-afghanistan\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Backing is also given to UN resolution exempting most aid from threat of sanctionsThe US has eased its restrictions on mainstream humanitarian aid reaching famine-stricken Afghanistan and backed a UN security council resolution exempting most aid from &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":493,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[46,247,1527,59,393,79,61,44,84,45,47,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-40003","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-afghanistan","category-aid","category-famine","category-global-development","category-humanitarian-response","category-society","category-south-and-central-asia","category-taliban","category-united-nations","category-us-foreign-policy","category-us-news","category-world-news"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40003","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/493"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=40003"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40003\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":40004,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40003\/revisions\/40004"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=40003"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=40003"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=40003"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}