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Stories for January 2nd 2018

• Tuesday, January 2nd 2018 - 06:33 UTC

  UK's foreign aid will go to projects that promote government aims and interests

  

  The UK's aid budget will be shifted to projects that promote its interests, the foreign secretary Boris Johnson said underlining the money will be “more sensibly distributed” to support foreign policy aims such as denying safe havens to Islamist militants.

• Tuesday, January 2nd 2018 - 06:20 UTC

  Latin American poverty and extreme poverty rose in 2015/16 following a decade of decline

  

  Poverty and extreme poverty levels rose in Latin America as a regional average in 2015 and 2016, after more than a decade of declines in the majority of countries, while in 2017 they are expected to hold steady, the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC) said.