(Washington Post) Karen DeYoung and Ruth Eglash - The Trump administration has decided to cancel all U.S. funding of the UN Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA) serving Palestinian refugees as it seeks a recalculation of U.S. foreign aid spending. In an announcement to be made within the next several weeks, the U.S. will call for a sharp reduction in the number of Palestinians recognized as refugees, according to officials familiar with the decision. The U.S. has long been the largest individual donor to UNRWA, pledging about 1/3 of the agency's $1.1 billion budget in 2017.
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