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September 01 The Trump administration in United States has decided to stop aid for lakhs of Palestinian refugees after slashing bilateral aid projects in West bank and Gaza. The US State Department said in a written statement the United States “will no longer commit further funding to this irredeemably flawed operation”. The decision cuts nearly $300m (£231m) of planned support. It comes as Donald Trump and his Middle East advisers, Jared Kushner and Jason Greenblatt, prepare for the rollout of a much-vaunted plan for Israel and the Palestinians, and it could intensify Palestinian suspicions that Washington is using the humanitarian funding as leverage. The US supplies nearly 30 per cent of the total budget of the UN Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA) and had been demanding ref...

July 30 Around 40 lakh people in Assam have been left out of a draft list of citizens released today, and are liable to face deportation if they are unable to prove their citizenship. The state’s National Register of Citizens or NRC has been updated for the first time since 1951 to account for illegal migration from neighbouring Bangladesh. Releasing the updated list, officials underscored that no one would be deported or arrested as this is only a draft. The recount is seen by critics as a move to target Assam’s Muslim population on the pretext of weeding out Bangladeshi migrants. Thousands of central forces are in the state to prevent any unrest over the new list. “Some people are unnecessarily trying to create an atmosphere of fear… This is a draft and not the final list,...

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U.S. to stop aid to Palestinian refugee agency

Assam: Around 40 lakh people, Mostly Muslims may Be Deported if Citizenship unproved