Trump initially removed the U.S. from the WHO in 2020, but Biden reversed his action before it went into effect.

"Unfairly onerous payments" are cited in the executive order as a reason for WHO withdrawal. Countries’ dues are a percentage of their gross domestic product, meaning that as the world’s richest nation, the United States has generally paid more than other countries.

NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte said the U.S. will continue supplying Ukraine from its defense industrial base at the World Economic Forum in Davos.

Humanitarian disasters are breeding both short-term and long-term health problems around the world, global health officials said. View on euronews

TEMPO.CO, Jakarta - The U.S. plan to withdraw from the World Health Organization (WHO) will squeeze Africa's health initiatives, the Africa Centres for Disease Control and Prevention said on Thursday, January 23, 2025, calling on African countries to find alternative sources of financing.

It takes a whole new level of ignorance and outright stupidity to withdraw from the World Health Organization and forbid the National Institutes of Health from publishing health as well as mortality/morbidity data while bird flu is popping up randomly around the country.

Ukraine’s defense minister fired the head of a state agency that procured over $7 billion in armaments last year, citing “unsatisfactory” results. She says the move is illegal and vows to stay in her post.

Russia on Sunday claimed its troops had captured a strategically important town in eastern Ukraine as part of a grinding campaign to weaken Kyiv’s grip on the country’s industrial heartland.

President Trump said he told King Abdullah II of Jordan during a phone call Saturday that he would like Jordan and Egypt to take in more Palestinians from Gaza, an idea that is likely to reignite debate about the future of nearly two million Palestinians.

Ken Primus, director of World Relief Tri-Cities, stands in the organization’s Richland offices. It’s Southeast Washington’s only refugee resettlement agency, helping hundreds of legal refugees fleeing persecution, war or violence.

The Trump administration plan to withdraw the United States from the World Health Organization has triggered a hiring freeze, suspended investments and a travel reduction within the organization.

A health organization created in the wake of World War II to fight disease across the planet is losing its biggest donor, the United States.