Sonja Hutson
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44 recordings
1 series
first heard Apr 2026
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It's reducing direct foreign aid by more than 40 percent to a number of countries like South Sudan, Afghanistan and the Democratic Republic of Congo, which has been battling the deadliest Ebola outbreak for a decade.
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Former UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer raided the development budget last year to fund higher defense spending.
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Nonpartisan development organization The One Campaign has urged new Prime Minister Andy Burnham to reverse the, quote, devastating cuts.
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A senior British diplomat said the cuts reflected a shift in U.K.
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foreign policy away from Africa and Latin America.
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Instead, the government wants to focus on China, Europe and the U.S.
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while maintaining relations in the Gulf.
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The diplomat also noted that other G7 countries, including the U.S., France and Germany, were slashing aid budgets, too.
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But the U.K.'
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's cuts are the biggest within the group of wealthy nations.
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That's according to an analysis by the Center for Global Development.
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The Foreign Office was approached for comment.
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U.S.
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inflation fell slightly in July as gas prices dropped.
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That's despite the ongoing U.S.-Iran war that's affecting energy supplies.
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Yesterday's Consumer Price Index report put annual inflation at 3.4 percent in July.
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That's just a bit under June's figure, 3.5 percent.
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Core inflation, which strips out volatile food and energy costs, also fell.
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That suggests that underlying price pressures are being contained.
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Traders had expected the U.S.
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