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UK cuts overseas aid after worst recession in over 300 years

by Pan Pylas
| November 25, 2020 9:09 AM

LONDON (AP) — The British government faced fury Wednesday after ditching its long-standing target for overseas aid in the wake of what it described as the deepest recession in over three centuries.

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