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. Doug las County-based Western Union Co., the biggest U.S. money-transfer business, joined the U.K. and 68 other nations in pledging a total of $420 million to a United Nations-administered fund created to rush aid to victims of wars and natural disasters.
The U.N. said Western Union became the first corporate donor to the Central Emergency Response Fund, with a pledge of $100,000 through the company’s charitable foundation. Britain pledged $80 million and Norway, Sweden and the Netherlands said they would each donate $30 million.
