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Senior Senate Democrat, Ben Cardin, threatens to block military aid and arms sales to Egypt if the country does not improve its human rights record, citing the federal indictment of the former chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, Bob Menendez. The Biden administration has waived human rights restrictions on $235 million of the aid, citing security benefits to the US.
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