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UK defense spending boost stokes concerns about overseas aid

by Pan Pylas
| November 19, 2020 8:18 AM

LONDON (AP) — British Prime Minister Boris Johnson on Thursday touted the biggest investment in the U.K.'s armed forces since the end of the Cold War three decades ago but brushed aside concerns that his government is about to abandon pledges on overseas aid spending in order to pay for it.

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