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Planning Commission placed a six-month moratorium on the project pending an environmental impact assessment to be drafted by the property developers.

The new authorities swiftly loosened Assad-era restrictions, deluging the market with cheaper imports and lifting a moratorium that made dealing with dollars a criminal offense.

Prabowo did not specify which lawmakers would have their allowances curtailed, but said a moratorium on overseas trips would also be imposed.

From BBC

“I don’t know what you can do, but I’m going to ask you to do something — a gesture, can we look at an eviction moratorium?”

Under his predecessor, Joe Biden, the justice department had issued a moratorium on the federal use of the death penalty.

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