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Argentina's Chamber of Deputies debates a reform bill that ultra-liberal president Javier Milei is seeking to pass after withdrawing hundreds of articles from an ambitious earlier version that failed in parliament in February 2024. IMAGES
The US House of Representatives approves a long-awaited $61 billion aid package to help Ukraine's war effort against the Russian invasion. IMAGES
Republicans kill a $118 billion immigration and foreign aid package that had linked US funding for Ukraine and Israel with stringent domestic border security measures. Chuck Schumer, the leader of the Democratic-led Senate, calls for a second vote to approve the foreign aid without the immigration curbs. IMAGES
Protesters and Argentine police face each other outside Congress as lawmakers debate each article of President Javier Milei's reform package bill, after approving it "in general" and removing almost half of the original text last week. IMAGES
Social movements protest outside Argentina's Congress in Buenos Aires as the lower house debates President Javier Milei's mega-bill to reform the economy, politics and even some aspects of private life. Milei's so-called omnibus bill initially contained 664 articles, but has lost almost half of these in tough negotiations with the opposition, which largely outnumbers his party in Congress. IMAGES