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It added that it risked "inflicting significant harm on the Afghan people, including by threatening economic stability and exacerbating one of the world's worst humanitarian crises".

“Congressional Democrats are not only unwilling to vote for a clean funding bill, but their goal is to inflict as much pain on the American people as possible,” the EPA said.

Australia won 2-1 and claimed a convincing win in the series opener before India showed exactly what they are capable of at their best by inflicting the world champions' heaviest ODI defeat in the second.

Kennedy’s tactics owe a lot to the anti-abortion movement, which spent decades repackaging their efforts to destroy women’s rights as a crusade to “protect” them from supposedly evil doctors eager to inflict abortions on them.

Wales, Ireland, France and Canada had also inflicted defeats in recent years.