Hacker News
- Gates warns of deaths if Trump and Musk don't reinstate foreign aid funding https://fortune.com/2025/02/18/bill-gates-trump-musk-foreign-aid-funding/ 17 comments
- Worldview With Suhasini Haidar | Why has India accepted foreign aid after 17 years https://www.thehindu.com/news/international/worldview-with-suhasini-haidar-why-has-india-accepted-foreign-aid-after-17-years/article34451030.ece 3 comments india
- Republican Suggests 'All Our Foreign Aid is Quid Pro Quo': 'That's a Relatively Common Occurrence' https://www.newsweek.com/republican-suggest-all-foreign-aid-quid-pro-quo-1473007 56 comments politics
- Trump’s calls with foreign leaders have long worried aides, leaving some ‘genuinely horrified’ https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/trumps-calls-with-foreign-leaders-have-long-worried-aides-leaving-some-genuinely-horrified/2019/10/04/537cc7a8-e602-11e9-a331-2df12d56a80b_story.html 4 comments politics
- Britain is pumping huge sums of foreign aid into Palestinian schools named after mass murderers and Islamist militants http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-4304924/a-sick-new-low-foreign-aid.html#comments 54 comments worldnews
- Trump Administration to Propose 'Dramatic Reductions' in Foreign Aid http://www.foxbusiness.com/politics/2017/03/04/trump-administration-to-propose-dramatic-reductions-in-foreign-aid.html 8 comments worldnews
- About $350 Million In Global Warming Foreign Aid Mysteriously Vanishes http://dailycaller.com/2016/12/12/about-350-million-in-global-warming-foreign-aid-mysteriously-vanishes/?utm_campaign=atdailycaller&utm_source=twitter&utm_medium=social 6 comments worldnews
- What does the US get for all the foreign aid to Israel? http://wrmea.org/component/content/article/245-2008-november/3845-congress-watch-a-conservative-estimate-of-total-direct-us-aid-to-israel-almost-114-billion.html 30 comments politics
- Israel is by no means a poor nation, so why is the US sending them foreign aid? http://the-reaction.blogspot.com/2011/08/case-for-cutting-off-federal-aid-to.html 4 comments politics
- Can China fill the void in foreign aid? https://www.brookings.edu/articles/can-china-fill-the-void-in-foreign-aid/ 56 comments china
- To Fix Foreign Aid, Pay the Poor Directly https://foreignpolicy.com/2021/10/15/foreign-aid-development-economy-poor-pandemic-direct-cash-transfer/ 2 comments economics
- To Fix Foreign Aid, Pay the Poor Directly https://foreignpolicy.com/2021/10/15/foreign-aid-development-economy-poor-pandemic-direct-cash-transfer/ 8 comments politics
- Trump administration says it cannot meet court deadline for foreign aid payments https://www.reuters.com/legal/trump-administration-says-it-cannot-meet-court-deadline-foreign-aid-payments-2025-02-26/ 34 comments politics
- Dominic Raab slashes foreign aid to China after £71m paid in one year https://www.standard.co.uk/news/uk/foreign-aid-money-china-dominic-raab-a4506646.html 25 comments worldnews
- Dominic Raab slashes foreign aid to China after £71m paid in one year https://www.standard.co.uk/news/uk/foreign-aid-money-china-dominic-raab-a4506646.html 6 comments worldnews
- Trump May Stop Allowing Aides to Listen to Foreign Leader Calls https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-02-13/trump-may-stop-allowing-aides-to-listen-to-foreign-leader-calls 5 comments worldnews
- U.S. Orders Freeze of Foreign Aid, Bypassing Congress https://www.nytimes.com/2019/08/07/us/politics/foreign-aid-freeze-congress.html 57 comments politics
- Russia Is the Biggest Recipient of Chinese Foreign Aid http://foreignpolicy.com/2017/10/11/russia-is-the-biggest-recipient-of-chinese-foreign-aid-north-korea/ 20 comments europe
- Marco Rubio Set to Oppose Donald Trump's Cuts to Foreign Aid http://www.sunshinestatenews.com/story/marco-rubio-set-oppose-donald-trumps-cuts-foreign-aid 3 comments politics
- Venezuela seeks foreign medical aid amid health crisis 'genocide' http://www.upi.com/top_news/world-news/2016/04/06/venezuela-seeks-foreign-medical-aid-amid-health-crisis-genocide/1691459953798/ 7 comments worldnews
- Africa loses more money to illicit financial flows than it receives in foreign aid http://qz.com/653937/africa-loses-more-money-to-illicit-financial-flows-than-it-receives-in-foreign-aid/ 13 comments worldnews
- Rand Paul: End All Foreign Aid, Including Aid To Israel http://www.outsidethebeltway.com/rand-paul-end-all-foreign-aid-including-aid-to-israel/ 4 comments politics
- Stop Foreign Aid to Israel (and Everywhere Else) http://www.fff.org/blog/jghblog2008-12-31.asp 3 comments politics
- McCain Aides Earned Nearly $2.4 Million From Foreign Car Manufacturers http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/09/23/mccain-aides-earned-nearl_n_128674.html 5 comments politics
- UK foreign aid 'incentivises Palestinian terrorists' claims MP - Labour MP Joan Ryan said aid handed to the Palestinian Authority was being indirectly used to pay terrorists http://jewishnews.timesofisrael.com/uk-foreign-aid-incentivises-palestinian-terrorists-claims-mp/ 22 comments worldnews
- Billions of dollars at stake for farmers hit by Trump funding freeze, pause on foreign aid https://ohiocapitaljournal.com/2025/02/17/repub/billions-of-dollars-at-stake-for-farmers-hit-by-trump-funding-freeze-pause-on-foreign-aid/ 9 comments politics
- Pakistani Foreign Minister responds to US financial cuts: "It's not aid, US owes money to Pakistan. This is our money that we have spent in the fight against terrorism." https://tribune.com.pk/story/1793667/1-suspension-300m-csf-taken-pompeo-visit-qureshi/ 16 comments worldnews
- Developing countries lose an estimated 3 times more to tax havens than they receive in foreign aid each year. http://www.thebeaveronline.com/tax-evasion/ 10 comments worldnews
- White House expected to move forward with plan to cancel foreign aid, teeing up fight with Congress https://www.cnn.com/2019/08/16/politics/omb-rescission-package-foreign-aid-funding/index.html 46 comments politics
- Major British sexual health charity handed £132m in foreign aid 'provided prostitutes for staff, donors and guests' attending official functions https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-7045455/british-sexual-health-charity-handed-132m-foreign-aid-provided-prostitutes-staff.html 8 comments worldnews
- UK Independence Party Member of the European Parliament calls women "Sluts", claims foreign aid wasted being sent to "Bongo Bongo Land". http://news.sky.com/story/1144453/godfrey-bloom-ukip-mep-calls-women-sluts 14 comments worldnews
- What if all foreign intervention in the Middle East (military prescence, foreign aid, companies, etc.) was withdrawed from the region? How would this effect the Middle East? https://www.reddit.com/r/geopolitics/comments/a261ny/what_if_all_foreign_intervention_in_the_middle/ 194 comments geopolitics
- Trump's foreign aid cuts 'catastrophic,' says global Catholic charity arm https://www.reuters.com/world/us/trumps-foreign-aid-cuts-catastrophic-says-global-catholic-charity-arm-2025-02-10/ 18 comments politics
- Report of flood-hit Pakistan rejecting Bangladesh’s $145,000 aid offer are false - Ministry of Foreign Affairs https://www.dhakatribune.com/south-asia/2022/09/17/flood-hit-pakistan-denies-bangladeshs-145000-aid-offer 4 comments pakistan
- Elite Capture of Foreign Aid: Evidence from Offshore Bank Accounts | Journal of Political Economy https://www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/full/10.1086/717455 2 comments economics
- Attorney General Barr personally asked foreign officials to aid inquiry into CIA, FBI activities in 2016 https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/attorney-general-barr-personally-asked-foreign-officials-to-aid-inquiry-into-cia-fbi-activities-in-2016/2019/09/30/ 8 comments politics
- Attorney General Barr personally asked foreign officials to aid inquiry into CIA, FBI activities in 2016 https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/attorney-general-barr-personally-asked-foreign-officials-to-aid-inquiry-into-cia-fbi-activities-in-2016/2019/09/30/d50cd5c4-e3a5-11e9-b403-f738899982d2_story.html?tid=sm_fb 75 comments politics
- Suppose an Islamofascist dictator has a nuke. Do we (1) launch a pre-emptive war, or (2) send them billions of dollars in foreign aid? Or perhaps it depends on whether the country is rich in oil? http://politics.reddit.com/info/60v1d/comments/ 6 comments politics
- Former Green Beret charged with spying for Russia | Peter Rafael Dzibinski Debbins, of Virginia, faces a single count of conspiracy to gather or deliver defense information to aid a foreign government https://www.nbcnews.com/news/world/former-green-beret-charged-spying-russia-n1237750?cid=sm_npd_nn_tw_np 9 comments politics
- Britain's foreign aid has fallen into hands of al-Qaeda, DfiD admits: Almost half a million pounds of British taxpayer-funded aid and equipment has fallen into the hands of al-Qaeda, the Department for International Development has admitted. http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/africaandindianocean/somalia/10235384/britains-foreign-aid-has-fallen-into-hands-of-al-qaeda-dfid-admits.html?fb 40 comments worldnews