The United Nations will be forced to reduce its peacekeeping forces worldwide by around 25% due to a lack of funding, largely linked to U.S. aid cuts, a senior U.N. official has said. About 13,000 to 14,000 military and police personnel, as well as their equipment, will have to be repatriated, the official said Wednesday on condition of anonymity, with "a large number of civilian staff in missions" also to be affected. The United States was expected to contribute $1.3 billion of the total $5.4