All news on the topic: Foreign aid

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Former No 10 adviser urges Andy Burnham to restore £1bn in foreign aid cuts
A former top No 10 adviser says Prime Minister hopeful Andy Burnham should reverse £1billion in foreign aid cuts if he gets into power and restore Britain to its position as a leader in the field.
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Secret report says £28bn in UK taxpayer cash went to terrorists and hostile states
Over £28 billion of taxpayer cash has been handed to terrorists and hostile states, according to a confidential government report.
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Secret report says £28bn in UK taxpayer money reached terrorists and hostile states
Terrorists, hostile states and gangsters have been given more than £28bn of taxpayers’ money, including through aid payments, according to a secret government report.
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Babies die, fathers beg for bread and millions face hunger in Taliban-run Afghanistan
As dawn breaks, hundreds of men gather at a dusty square in Chaghcharan, the capital of Ghor province in Afghanistan.
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Rachel Reeves announces harsh welfare cuts, pushing 250,000 people into poverty as Labour chooses austerity over taxing the ultra-wealthy
Chancellor Rachel Reeves will deliver a press conference from Downing Street following her Spring Statement which saw billions of pounds of welfare cuts announced
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Minister steps down over Keir Starmer’s reductions in foreign aid
International development minister Anneliese Dodds has resigned due to Keir Starmer’s decision to cut foreign aid in order to increase defense spending.
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Services to millions of people are disrupted as USAID reduces contracts globally
U.S.-funded projects worldwide, including those providing lifesaving care for millions of people in countries such as Sudan and South Africa, received termination notices on Thursday sending shockwaves across the global aid community.
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Trump plans major foreign aid cuts to safeguard US interests in first executive order
Donald Trump will sign an executive order Monday halting all new foreign aid unless it fits with U.S. strategic goals, according to two incoming senior White House officials.
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David Cameron commits £3bn a year in aid to Ukraine ‘for as long as necessary’
The foreign secretary called the conflict ‘the challenge of our generation’ after making second trip to Kyiv to meet Zelenskiy
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Tories will not restore billions slashed from foreign aid in next five years
The Tories boasted about the 0.7% overseas aid goal in their general election manifesto. But Chancellor Jeremy Hunt said restoring the target in the next five years is not 'possible'.
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Rishi Sunak claims David Cameron will deliver 'change' after 13 years of Tories
Downing Street said Rishi Sunak's new Cabinet will be 'focused on delivering the change the country needs' as he appointed David Cameron to a top job as Foreign Secretary
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9 times flip-flopping Rishi Sunak broke his promises - from NHS waits to taxes
The PM has become notorious for chucking promises made to voters as he has whacked up taxes, failed to cut record hospital waiting lists and ditched a Brexit pledge to scrap EU laws
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The former far-right activists helping Brits escape extremism
Two former members of the far right spoke to the Mirror about their descent into extremism and radicalisation and how they managed to not just get out, but now help others escape the same fate
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'Sunak's us-and-them attitude to aid kills hope for world's most vulnerable'
The cost of living is spiralling here in the UK, but cuts to our international aid means the difference between life and death for the poorest in other countries, argues Dhananjayan Sriskandarajah, chief executive of Oxfam GB
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Inside bizarre micro-nation in desert with own dictator and strict walrus ban
Although not formally recognised by the UN, Molossia, in the Dayton Valley, Nevada, US, has soldiered on since its founding in 1977 and has its own strange