{"id":444,"date":"2010-08-19T13:40:25","date_gmt":"2010-08-19T20:40:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sparetimeuniversity.com\/?p=444"},"modified":"2010-08-19T13:42:16","modified_gmt":"2010-08-19T20:42:16","slug":"u-s-to-boost-aid-as-number-of-homeless-doubles-in-pakistan-floods","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sparetimeuniversity.com\/?p=444","title":{"rendered":"U.S. to boost aid as number of homeless doubles in Pakistan floods"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Islamabad, Pakistan (CNN)<\/strong> &#8212; The number of Pakistanis rendered homeless by massive flooding doubled to 4 million, the United Nations said Thursday as Washington planned to ramp up assistance to aid the suffering.<\/p>\n<p>Secretary of State Hillary Clinton said she plans to announce an additional $60 million in U.S. aid to add to the $90 million already pledged by the United States.<\/p>\n<p>In addition, Democratic Sen. John Kerry said Thursday that $200 million from Kerry-Lugar Bill allocations will be diverted to flood assistance. The bill, named after Kerry and Republican Sen. Dick Lugar, essentially grants $7.5 billion in nonmilitary aid to Pakistan for social and economic development. \u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2010\/WORLD\/asiapcf\/08\/19\/pakistan.floods\/index.html\">Read More&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Islamabad, Pakistan (CNN) &#8212; The number of Pakistanis rendered homeless by massive flooding doubled to 4 million, the United Nations said Thursday as Washington planned to ramp up assistance to aid the suffering. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton said she plans to announce an additional $60 million in U.S. aid to add to the $90 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-444","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news-from-the-4th-world"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sparetimeuniversity.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/444","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sparetimeuniversity.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sparetimeuniversity.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sparetimeuniversity.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sparetimeuniversity.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=444"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/sparetimeuniversity.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/444\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":448,"href":"https:\/\/sparetimeuniversity.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/444\/revisions\/448"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sparetimeuniversity.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=444"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sparetimeuniversity.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=444"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sparetimeuniversity.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=444"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}