14-09-2017 20:56 via uk.news.yahoo.com

UK urges changes to international aid rules to help hurricane-hit islands

Boris Johnson surveys the damage in Tortola, British Virgin Islands, after Hurricane Irma.Britain has called for urgent changes to international rules on aid to allow UK development cash to be used to help victims of natural disasters like Hurricane Irma.Downing Street has said the prime minister, Theresa May, is frustrated with rules set by the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) that exclude British overseas territories like Anguilla, Turks and Caicos and British Virgi
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