Updated 11:13pm 15 May 2012

Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt’s $1m gift to UN refugees

ANGELINA JOLIE and Brad Pitt have donated $1m (£610,000) to the UN refugee agency providing aid to hundreds of thousands uprooted by violence in Pakistan.

The UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) says it is grateful for the donation from the Jolie-Pitt Foundation.

It said yesterday the money will go to alleviating suffering caused by the “most challenging humanitarian crisis of the past decade.”

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