A judge had blocked the president’s push to close down Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty, a federally financed news ...

Shutting down such a valuable service in the name of “government efficiency” is as insulting as it is ludicrous.

But the purge of US foreign aid programmes will also affect Ukraine and other former Soviet countries in more insidious ways.

The Soviet radio, in an Arabic-language broadcast beamed to the Near East, categorically denied today that Jewish emigration to Israel would be permitted from the Soviet Union.