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White House Cuts Palestinian Aid

01/09/2018 GMT

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The US ends its funding of the UN Palestinian refugee agency

The US ends its funding of the UN Palestinian refugee agency.

The United States ends its funding of a UN agency, known as UNWRA, which supports about five million Palestinian refugees. 

Also in the programme: John McCain's Russian pallbearer, and troubles of musicians in New Orleans.

(Image: A man at a U.N. Relief and Works Agency warehouse in Gaza City on 21st January 2018. Credit: Majdi Fathi/NurPhoto /Getty Images)

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