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Aid allocations set to be announced more than a year after the prime minister said the budget would be reduced from 0.5% of GDP to 0.3% by 2027

Dubbed ‘the holiest of holies’, produce from this former Soviet republic today boasts a variety and deftness that’s sending sales surging

Researchers said that infections and deaths could surge to levels not seen in more than two decades.

The collapse of western funding for international aid–for both emergency humanitarian operations and official development assistance (ODA)–is a major blow. The dramatic consequences for the neglected populations are the result of the structural weaknesses–evident for years [1]–of an economic model of international aid and development whose obsolescence is now plain…

Labour MP for Rotherham Sarah Champion also said a ‘scandalously large amount of ODA’ had been spent ‘on domestic refugee costs’.

France has set up a commission to assess the impact and transparency of its development aid, following allegations by the far right that taxpayers' money is being squandered overseas – echoing similar claims by the United States administration, which has frozen its foreign aid programmes.

Anneliese Dodds warned that the move would affect the UK’s support for Gaza, Sudan and Ukraine.

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‘We are confident that this cat contracted H5N1 by eating the Northwest Naturals raw and frozen pet food,’ veterinarian says