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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. 

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.

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.

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.

The scandal surrounding sexual exploitation by aid workers in Haiti is continuing to deepen, with the British government set to consult the National Crime Agency (NCA).

TEL AVIV – Amid worsening relations with the Palestinians, the Trump administration is now considering rejecting the UN’s definition of Palestinian “refugees” and cutting off all financial aid to the agency that caters to them, an Israeli TV report said Tuesday.

TEL AVIV – Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas’ Fatah movement on Tuesday accused Vice President Mike Pence of “defiling” the Western Wall by his visit to the holy site earlier that day.

TEL AVIV – Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas’ deputy in the ruling Fatah faction this week dismissed years of American aid amounting to several billion dollars with the declaration that the U.S. has never given anything of “substance” to the Palestinians, and added that “nothing good will come from them.”

TEL AVIV – Amid fraying relations, the Trump administration is investigating an overhaul of the entire Palestinian aid budget, and not just settling itself with cuts to the UN agency for Palestinian refugees, an Israeli news broadcaster reported Wednesday.

Forces veterans in the United Kingdom are launching their own political party in response to the scandal surrounding homeless SAS hero Bob Curry.

TEL AVIV – President Donald Trump is right in contemplating cutting aid to the “biased and racist” U.N. so-called Palestinian refugee agency that seeks to destroy Israel, a Kuwaiti columnist said Wednesday.

TEL AVIV – The Palestinian leadership has slammed the Trump administration over its suspension of $65 million in the first installment to the UN Palestinian refugee agency, charging that the U.S. is doing Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s bidding and dissolving the body gradually.

TEL AVIV – The Trump administration is preparing to cut tens of millions of dollars – over half the intended first installment – from the UN agency for Palestinian refugees, the Associated Press, citing U.S. officials, reported on Sunday.

Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas lashed out at Jews, Israel, Europe’s leaders and U.S. President Donald Trump in a two-hour speech full of bile and embittered regret.

The British Government’s spending on foreign aid is more than double the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) average, thanks to legislation passed under David Cameron.

TEL AVIV – Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on expressed support for the Trump administration’s threats to cut funding to the UN’s Palestinian “refugee” agency, declaring the agency “must pass away.”

The Trump administration has reportedly suspended $125 million in aid for the United Nations Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA), the special UN agency that deals specifically with Palestinian refugees of the 1948 war against Israel.