‘Ditch refugee institution, look at real numbers’: Netanyahu praises US for axing UNRWA funding

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has thrown his support behind the US decision to pull funding from the UN’s Palestinian refugee agency (UNRWA), accusing the aid group of inflating the number of refugees it assists. Speaking at Yad Binyamin on Sunday, Netanyahu said UNRWA is “perpetuating” the plight of refugees and that by pulling funding, […]

The Royal Bank of Canada has become the first financial institution to appease China in its political crackdown on Taiwan

Royal Bank of Canada has changed its description of Taiwan from a country to a province of China. It appears to be the first financial institution to make the change this year amid China’s political crackdown on how foreign companies describe its disputed territories. The change occurred just two weeks after Air Canada made a […]

US institution expelled from Cambodia amid increasing anti-Western sentiment

Cambodian PM Hun Sen ordered the US-funded National Democratic Institute to pack up and leave the country in the latest move by the government railing against American interests, ahead of what are expected to be hotly contested elections next year. Cambodia’s Foreign Ministry has accused the NDI of operating without registering and stated the foreign […]