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UK reveals aid priorities after major cuts to budget

Aid groups and MPs have raised concerns over the move to prioritise defence spending over aid. Britain's smaller overseas aid budget will be targeted at areas in "greatest crisis and conflict", the foreign secretary has said, as she announced some countries face "significantly" reduced grants. Yvette Cooper told MPs that funding will be "fully... [4009 chars]

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