American taxpayers are continuing to fund border security measures and border walls in Pakistan, Afghanistan, Egypt, and Lebanon with President Trump’s signing of a Department of Homeland Security (DHS) spending bill.
A Republican-Democrat spending bill being offered to President Trump spends nearly 40 times as much on foreign aid as it does on a wall to secure the United States-Mexico border.
After nine months, Lebanese Prime Minister Saed Hariri has finally bowed to reality. Hezbollah and its allies won the elections last May. And elections have consequences — which is why the U.S. should withdraw its support from Lebanon’s government.
Trump’s compromise budget funds about $5.7 billion in border wall construction while spending about ten times as much on foreign countries.
John Bolton said the Trump administration would no longer provide foreign aid to countries hostile to U.S. interests.
The British government has finally issued a response to the rapidly growing official petition against the United Nations Global Compact for Migration.
TEL AVIV – Israeli NGO IsraAID has dispatched an emergency response team to California to assist communities impacted by the devastating wildfires that have so far killed 80 people and destroyed 14,000 buildings.
President Donald Trump criticized the government for sending billions of dollars of aid to foreign countries instead of using to help the United States.
Millions of pounds’ worth of British international aid is being appropriated for organised criminals by corrupt foreign officials, according to reports.
An aid watchdog has slammed the government for exaggerating the number of women’s lives it saved with taxpayer’s money spent on its maternal health initiatives.
Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said on Tuesday that the United States would turn back the 7,000-person caravan of migrants from Central America when they reach the United States’ border with Mexico.
TEL AVIV – Over the past week, Russia has been transporting S-300 air defense systems to Syria using the Antonov An-124 Ruslan, the largest military plane in the world.
Last year the British taxpayer funded almost 100 “aid” projects in China, a world superpower with a space program, massive army, and the second biggest economy in the world.
The UK is to hand almost £100 million in “aid” to India, one of the world’s largest economies, despite the nation spending almost the same figure on a new moon landing.
TEL AVIV – Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu hailed the U.S.’s decision to cut off any further financial aid to the “refugee perpetuating” agency UNRWA, which Israeli officials have said is the Trump Administration’s first step to closing it altogether.
TEL AVIV – The European Union on Saturday expressed its “regret” over the U.S. decision to defund the UN agency for Palestinian refugees, and while it pledged to continue to give aid it said the agency must reform the way it operates.
The Trump administration has decided to cancel all U.S. funding of the United Nations aid program for Palestinian refugees, part of its determination to put its money where its policy is as it seeks a recalculation of U.S. foreign aid spending and prepares its own Israeli-Palestinian peace plan.
TEL AVIV – U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations Nikki Haley on Tuesday questioned the official number of Palestinians designated as refugees by the international body, and said that the agency for those refugees must undergo an overhaul if the U.S. was to continue to support it.
TEL AVIV – President Donald Trump ordered that more than $200 million in aid to the Palestinian Authority be cut, a State Department official said on Friday.
In response to the US decision to cut more than $200 million in aid money to the Palestinians, the Palestinian President, Mahmoud Abbas’ spokesman says the US decision is meant to force the Palestinians to abandon their claim to Jerusalem.
China’s Foreign Ministry issued a statement on Friday denying allegations that its financial assistance programs for Pacific nations are an effort to buy political influence and muscle out regional competitors, especially Taiwan. The Foreign Ministry insisted China’s $5.9 billion in pledged foreign aid comes with no strings attached.
The United States has provided a further $195 million to Egypt in military aid, despite concern over the country’s dismal human rights record.
TEL AVIV – Israel turned down a North Korean offer in 1999 to pay it $1 billion in cash in return for halting weapons sales and missile technology to the Jewish state’s enemies, including Iran, over fears the U.S. would be against the deal, a defected former North Korean diplomat has revealed.
Migrants in Germany sent back £15.6 billion ($20.6bn) to their homelands in 2016, a number dwarfing the country’s total foreign aid budget.
Australia will not follow U.S. President Donald Trump’s lead and move its embassy to Jerusalem, Foreign Minister Julie Bishop has said, defying her own governing Liberal Party’s request to do so.
Former British prime minister David Cameron has attempted a political comeback, speaking about how to defeat the rise of populism in Europe at a globalist conference.
While many politicians in Europe have argued for more aid to Africa and other regions to solve mass migration, some experts believe current aid policies may be having the opposite effect.
The Chief Executive of Oxfam has announced he will stand down, three months after the charity was embroiled in a sex and prostitution scandal.
The U.S. State Department has released a report on the voting behavior of other countries at the United Nations — and has identified the top ten best and worst countries in terms of voting for or against the U.S., respectively.
Despite the government promising to stop giving hand-outs to the wealthy nation, more than £47 million of UK taxpayer cash was handed to China in 2016.
The UK’s foreign aid budget soared by £555 million to almost £14 billion last year – meaning it has more than doubled in roughly a decade.
BERLIN, Germany — A German aid organization says it is investigating alleged anti-Semitic comments posted on social media by some of its staff.
The UK is likely to offer as much as £1.4 billion of the nation’s foreign aid budget to European Union (EU) institutions to spend after Brexit.
A Palestinian Authority spokesman said Wednesday a move by the United States to cut financial assistance in the Middle East amounts to a declaration of war.
L-SWAQA, Jordan — A U.S.-funded counterterrorism center has opened in Jordan where law enforcement officers from partner countries in the Middle East and beyond can practice shooting, storming hideouts and responding to bomb threats.
The United Nations received pledges Thursday of nearly $100 million in new funding for the UN relief agency for Palestinians after the US slashed its aid, but it is still facing a nearly $350 million shortfall this year.
TEL AVIV – The Trump administration will move ahead with projects in the Gaza Strip with or without the Palestinian Authority if its chairman Mahmoud Abbas continues to boycott the U.S., senior administration officials said Tuesday.
TEL AVIV – Officials from the UN agency for Palestinian refugees will meet in Rome with world powers on Thursday in an urgent attempt to alleviate the crisis it faces after the U.S. withheld hundreds of millions of dollars in funding earlier this year.
One in seven aid charities taking taxpayers’ money to spend abroad have now reported conduct breaches, with dozens of new claims of abuse, including paedophilia, the International Aid Secretary has said.
Theresa May’s government is sticking by its massive foreign aid commitments despite funding crises in the Armed Forces, healthcare, and social care, and tens of thousands signing petitions to scrap it.
