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NEW YORK — President Donald Trump on Wednesday threatened to cut off financial aid to countries that vote to pass a United Nations General Assembly resolution seeking to rescind his historic decision to recognize Jerusalem as Israel’s capital.

British taxpayers’ money has been directed to jihadist groups linked to al-Qaeda as part of a shady foreign aid programme in Syria.

State Department spokeswoman Heather Nauert confirmed on Tuesday that the United States provided Zimbabwe with $220 million in aid in 2016 alone, citing “democratic governance” as one of the areas the U.S. has funded.

Home Office contributions to Britain’s foreign aid budget totalling £362 million a year are mostly spent on illegal migrants and asylum seekers in the UK.

Foreign aid has been granted to countries with space programmes, like India and China, and on academic projects including studying the Tibetan verb and producing ‘cross-cultural’ art films in South Africa.

TEL AVIV – Israel is reportedly stepping up the pressure on American legislators to see the United Nations Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA), which exclusively caters to Palestinian refugees and their descendants, absorbed into the UN agency that caters to the rest of the world’s 65 million refugees.

The United Nations has provided the Gaza Strip with some $2.5 million in humanitarian aid to assist with relieving an ongoing electricity shortage.

TEL AVIV – President Donald Trump has pledged to retain the annual U.S. funding of $300 million to a UN agency for Palestinian refugees despite calls from Israel shut it down.

With remarkably little comment or fanfare, the U.S. government denied $95.7 million in aid to Egypt on Tuesday afternoon, with another $195 million put on hold. The decision was made due to concern with civil liberties and human rights in Egypt, particularly a law regulating non-governmental organizations that took effect in May.

Denmark has committed to spend 91 million kroner (£11 million) funding contraceptives in Africa, asserting that the measure could help “limit the migration pressure on Europe.”

French president Emmanuel Macron has stunned his left-liberal admirers by saying that Africa does not need more aid, as its problems are “civilisational” rather than financial.

There is excitement in the air as members of the Just Beyond Our Border group box hundreds of different types of medicine and medical equipment for children affected by the civil war in Syria.

UKIP have launched their economic policies for the general election with an excoriating attack on the UK’s massive foreign aid spending, as well as a promise to scrap the BBC licence fee.

TEL AVIV – The Trump administration is gearing up for major cuts in U.S. foreign aid across the world with the notable exception of the Palestinian territories which will receive increased funding, State Department documents obtained by Foreign Policy magazine show.

The Conservatives may drop a 2015 pledge not to raise income tax, national insurance, and VAT, Chancellor of the Exchequer Philip Hammond has suggested.

The Conservatives will retain their policy of spending 0.7 per cent of UK GDP on foreign aid each year, Prime Minister Theresa May has confirmed.

The British government has handed around £4 million in foreign aid to the brutal Communist regime in North Korea since the Tories came to power in 2010, and, despite Kim Jong-un threatening “all-out war”, the Foreign and Commonwealth Office says it has “no plans” to terminate payments.

Senior Conservatives are calling for the government to scrap the legally enshrined rule forcing the UK to spend 0.7 per cent of national income on foreign aid, making more funds available to the military.

Government spending on foreign aid is set to overtake spending on the Wales department, figures show.

Unethical behaviour is “absolutely embedded” in the culture of the foreign aid industry, which is overcharging the taxpayer, MPs said Monday night.

The Foreign Office has earmarked £700 million of Britain’s Foreign Aid budget to help prop up former Soviet states in a display of “soft power” against Putin’s Russia.

Reuters — One of Britain’s leading aid contractors pressured beneficiaries to write favourable testimonies while it was under investigation, a government report found on Sunday, amid growing scrutiny over UK aid spending. Britain last year launched an inquiry into the

The number of fraud allegations involving the United Kingdom’s £12 billion foreign aid budget quadrupled over the last five years, according to a National Audit Office (NAO) report.

The UK’s massive foreign aid budget is helping to fund middle-class luxuries in booming economise, including Pakistan’s version of Amazon, Chinese restaurant chains, online gambling websites, five-star hotels and luxury shopping malls.

The National Audit Office has said the private investment arm of the UK’s foreign aid department cannot prove its work makes a lasting difference to people’s lives.

An ORB poll has revealed more than twice as many voters think the UK’s ring-fenced aid budget should be scrapped than would keep it in place. Seven in ten respondents want to see an end to the 0.7 per cent

TEL AVIV – U.S. and Israeli officials are meeting in Washington this week to iron out the final details of a multibillion-dollar defense package for the Jewish state.

Britain’s foreign aid budget has risen 144 per cent in the space of a decade, making it the only major Western power to have significantly increased spending. A G7 report found that the UK is the only developed nation even

The United States government is cutting off millions of dollars worth of aid and is launching a probe into a network of NGO’s, companies, and employees in Turkey that have colluded to overcharge the U.S. government for basic aid it is providing to Turkey, as it settles thousands of Syrian refugees.

Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump said that he would “try and keep” the “not that much” amount of foreign aid the United States gives to Pakistan and with regards to humanitarian aid he “would try so hard to keep some

Spending on foreign aid will outstrip the amount of money given to local councils in the UK for the first time next year, according to official government estimates. The Treasury’s Budget book shows that spending on international development will hit

The UK Telegraph fired off a sizzling editorial on Tuesday, accusing recently-elected Nigerian President Muhammadu Buhari of misappropriating British foreign aid money that was earmarked for fighting Boko Haram and using it to persecute his political opponents instead.

Democratic presidential candidate Senator Bernie Sanders (I-VT) stated that “when we develop trade policies” the US should “take a hard look at the needs of the people in those countries as well” and he would prefer spending more on foreign

TEL AVIV – Billions of dollars in aid money to the Palestinian Authority (PA) are being used to fund terrorism against Israel, the Israeli Deputy Foreign Minister claimed in an oped for The Wall Street Journal on Monday.  “Large amounts

As allegations of human rights abuses reportedly committed by police and military forces have persisted in Mexico, the U.S. has started to withhold aid payments. For many years, the U.S. has been providing security aid to Mexico, much of it through the Mérida Initiative as a way to counter the efforts of violent drug cartels.

UK Independence Party (UKIP) leader Nigel Farage has called on the British government to divert money from the country’s expanding foreign aid budget to help communities in the UK affected by flooding. In the aftermath of Storm Desmond, which battered parts of