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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 – 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.

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.”

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.

President Donald Trump threatened to cut aid to the Palestinian Authority on Tuesday with two tweets that criticized Palestinian leaders for showing “no appreciation or respect” to the U.S. and being “no longer willing to talk peace.”

President Donald Trump lashed out at Pakistan on Twitter just a few minutes past 7:00 a.m. Eastern time on New Year’s Day, expressing frustration at Islamabad’s inadequate efforts against terrorism and implying that U.S. foreign aid will be terminated as a result.

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.

The UK will spend £180 million of taxpayers’ money over five years in Africa in an effort to convince migrants to stay where they are, reintegrate, or “return home”.

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.

The United States will consider resuming some suspended military assistance to Egypt, US President Donald Trump said on Wednesday.

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 – A leading Canadian Jewish group has expressed “concern” over the country’s recent announcement of up to $25 million in funding for a UN agency catering to Palestinian refugees that it deems “problematic and dangerous.”

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.