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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.

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.

A BBC charity, which takes tens of millions from the taxpayer, fired six members of staff for sexual misconduct without informing the government.

“If we don’t change it let’s have a shutdown, we’ll do a shutdown,” Trump said. “It’s worth it for our country.”

TEL AVIV – Dramatic footage broadcast over the weekend shows Syrian women and their children crossing the border into Israel to receive medical treatment.

President Donald Trump celebrated a deal with Democratic congressional leaders to punt the debt ceiling and government funding to December in an effort to speed up tax reform.

The Brexit ‘divorce bill’ demanded by the European Union (EU) includes payments towards aid to Africa, loans to Ukraine, and expensive environment projects including bridges for wildlife.

BERLIN (AP) — Germany is pledging an additional 3.5 million euros ($3.9 million) to help improve conditions for refugees in Libya.

MANILA, Philippines (AP) — The Philippines will no longer accept new grants from the European Union, officials said Thursday, forgoing possibly more than 250 million euros ($ 278.7 million) in funds for development projects in the country.

ROME (AP) — An Italian prosecutor says he is investigating employees of aid groups that are rescuing migrants off Libya for allegedly facilitating illegal migration, but says it’s not a punishable crime since saving lives at sea is paramount. Trapani

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.

TEL AVIV – A bill to sever U.S. funding to the Palestinian Authority until it stops paying salaries to terrorists and their families for attacks on Israelis and Americans would be reintroduced, Sen. Lindsey Graham said on Tuesday.

TEL AVIV – A clandestine Israeli initiative has gathered over a hundred tons of winter supplies bound for Syrian refugees who have no idea that the donations hail from the enemy state next door.

Britain says it has ended millions of dollars in funding for an Ethiopian girl band, amid growing criticism at home of overseas aid. Yegna, sometimes called “Ethiopia’s Spice Girls,” addresses women’s issues in the East African country.

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.

TEL AVIV – Inboxes belonging to U.S. senators have been flooded with more than 22,000 emails over the past week urging them to back the Taylor Force Act, a bill that would make aid to the Palestinian Authority conditional on its cutting off financial rewards to terrorists and their families, a major Christian group said on Monday.

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.

The British government is set to invest £100 million in Africa to stem the flow of migration from the continent into Europe. Part of the money will be spent on encouraging migrants to return to their home country. The Prime

Britain’s aid spending is to be overhauled to reflect the core conservative values of value for money, wealth creation and investment, the government’s new International Development Secretary Priti Patel has said. Despite that, the budget will remain ring-fenced at 0.7

Resettling 20,000 Syrian refugees in Britain will cost British taxpayers £1.7 billion, a report by the government’s spending watchdog has revealed.

73 humanitarian aid groups are dropping out of the United Nations “Whole of Syria” program, accusing the UN of cooperating too closely with the dictatorship of Bashar al-Assad. The move comes shortly after an exposé in The Guardian revealed deep financial ties between Assad and UN humanitarian projects in Syria.

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.

Britain gave more than £1 billion to some of the world’s most corrupt countries in 2013, possibly even helping fund extremism, despite numerous warnings that the money was being misspent. Anti-corruption group Transparency International says that all but 20 of