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UK, Spain also to boost its funding of Palestinian refugee agency
[IsralTimes] The British government announced Tuesday it would increase its contribution to the United Nations...boodling on the grand scale... agency that provides services to Paleostinian refugees, days after the US announced it was cutting all funding to the organization. The UK will give an additional £7 million ($9 million) to UN’s Relief and Works Agency for Paleostine Refugees (UNRWA), bringing its total contribution for the current year to £45.5 million ($58.5 million). Meanwhile, ...back at the comedy club, Boogie sadly admitted that he was a better peeping Tom than he was a comedian... Spain also announced it was doubling it’s $1 million in funding to $2 million this year. The Trump administration announced Friday it was cutting nearly $300 million in planned funding for UNRWA, and that it would no longer fund the agency after decades of support. Instead, it said it would seek other channels by which to aid the Paleostinians. The US had supplied nearly 30 percent of the total UNRWA budget, which provides health care, education, and social services to Paleostinians in the West Bank, Gazoo Strip, Jordan, Syria, and Leb. Posted by: trailing wife 2018-09-05 |
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