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Global Britain? Ending 0.7% pledge signals retreat from international role

Ditching the 0.7% aid pledge is the end of Global Britain

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"The direction of travel is not hard to see. And politically it will be devastating for Labour"

The coming Tory attack on foreign aid is a trap for Labour

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An April Fools Day protest over the privatisation of UK aid

Privatising charity: How the Tories funnelled aid money into private pockets

The privatisation of aid is lining the pockets of British companies

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Nigerian protesters reject increases in electricity prices

Comment: How Britain’s aid budget pays for the privatisation of energy in Nigeria

Our aid cash is helping tilt an already uneven playing field further in favour of the rich, entrenching inequality and corporate power.

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Michael Moore speaks in the Commons chamber during the second reading debate of his overseas aid bill

Will the Tories wreck the overseas aid bill?

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All three parties committed to legislate on overseas aid in their 2010 manifestos

Tory right could wreck overseas aid bill

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Aid spending remains deeply controversial on the Tory backbenches

No waste of money too big for DfID to rule out aid spending U-turn

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Tanya Barron: 'Humanitarian principles are clear – founded on impartiality and based on need. Defence is not built on the same blocks.'

Comment: Aid budget is not the right pot to plunder

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US military ships aid to Georgia during the 2008 conflict. Could British forces end up spending DFID money to do the same?

Charities horrified as armed forces muscle in on aid budget

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Those living on under $1.25 a day are characterised as living in extreme poverty

It really could happen: Wipe out extreme poverty, MPs urge

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Francis West: 'Malaria interventions proven to save lives are cheap'

Comment: Refuting the UK’s aid myths

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The government defended the proposed increased as part of the British government's commitment to helping the very poor.

Scrap foreign aid target, peers tell govt

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MPs say DfID must do more to counter corruption threat to aid spending

Aid spending vulnerable to corruption threat

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Somalia faces a growing crisis, Andrew Mitchell has warned

Mitchell fears 400k child deaths on Somalia visit

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David Cameron with Archbishop Desmond Tutu in South Africa yesterday

Cameron takes on ‘aid sceptics’

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