With immediate aid still held up and future food procurements in limbo, a former USAID official warns of “a global catastrophe.”

Swedish police said on Friday they were investigating a suspected case of sabotage of an undersea telecoms cable in the Baltic Sea, and the country's coast guard deployed a vessel to the area where multiple seabed cables have been damaged in recent months.

The judge faulted the logic of a blanket freeze on foreign aid spending and found that groups that depend on the aid had made a strong initial showing of “irreparable harm.”