The city’s pumping system suffered a malfunction two months before the start of the Summer Olympics Around 50,000 cubic meters of sewage has been dumped into the Seine River over the past several weeks, local city officials have said.

Outlays accelerated while receipts fell in the first quarter of the new fiscal year, Treasury data shows The US federal budget deficit reached half a trillion dollars in the first three months of the new fiscal year as spending picked up while receipts shrank, the US Treasury revealed on Thursday.

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