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The US State Department approved $30 million in funding for the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation, calling on other countries to do same.
World
  • Reuters
  • Jun 27, 2025
US State Department approves $30m in funding for Gaza Humanitarian Foundation

The organisation has ties to the Trump administration and been accused of complicity of Gaza war crimes.

World Bank
Business
  • Web Desk Karachi
  • Jun 11, 2025
2020s may be the worst economic decade since the 1960s, says World Bank

In its biannual Global Economic Prospects report, the Washington-based institution revised its 2020 global GDP growth projection downward to 2.3 percent from 2.7 percent in January.

The State Department office that handles refugee issues and works to cut illegal migration will lead the US response to overseas disasters.
World
  • Web Desk
  • May 22, 2025
State Department refugee office to assume USAID’s disaster aid role, says cable

Rubio
World
  • Reuters
  • May 20, 2025
US not withdrawing from world, says Rubio

US Secretary of State Rubio says the intent of changes he is overseeing was “not to dismantle American foreign policy, and it is not to withdraw us from the world”

Bill Gates
World
  • Reuters
  • May 08, 2025
Bill Gates to give away $200b by 2045, accuses Musk of harming world’s poor

“The picture of the world’s richest man killing the world’s poorest children is not a pretty one,” Gates told.

Bangladesh Aid cut
World
  • AFP
  • May 06, 2025
US aid cuts push Bangladesh’s health sector to the edge

“Bangladesh is among the seven most TB-prevalent countries globally, and we aim to eradicate it by 2035,” said Ayesha Akhter, deputy director of the formerly US-funded specialised TB Hospital treating Parvej in the capital Dhaka.

WHO and US Cuts
World
  • AFP
  • Apr 23, 2025
WHO announces ‘significant’ layoffs amid US funding cuts

The United Nations health agency has been bracing for President Donald Trump’s planned full withdrawal of the United States next January.

Myanmar
World
  • Reuters
  • Apr 06, 2025
Rains add to challenge for Myanmar quake relief, toll at 3,471

USAID workers who had travelled to Myanmar were told they were being let go, Marcia Wong, a former senior USAID official, told Reuters.

USAID Myanmar
World
  • Reuters
  • Apr 05, 2025
USAID team fired while in Myanmar earthquake zone, ex-official says

After travelling to the Southeast Asian nation, the three officials were told late this week they would be let go, Marcia Wong, a former official at the US Agency for International Development, told Reuters.

A federal judge ordered an immediate halt to the shutdown of the main USAID agency by Elon Musk's Department of Government Efficiency.
Breaking
  • Web Desk
  • Mar 19, 2025
Judge orders halt to Musk shutdown of USAID agency

Musk and his department’s dismantlement of the USAID “likely violated the United States Constitution in multiple ways”.

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