As he signed an executive order, President Donald Trump said that the World Health Organization had "ripped us off."
The problem for the lab-leak position is that the U.S. has never had access to the Wuhan lab and has thus been unable to reach a definitive answer for more than five years. Now that the CIA has at last come to a conclusion, not all scientists are sold on what it has reported, seeing the results as thinly scientifically sourced.
The World Health Organization will cut costs and review which health programmes to prioritise after President Donald Trumpannounced he was withdrawing the U.S. from the WHO, the agency's chief told staff in an internal memo seen by Reuters.
Africa's health agency has announced nine people have died in an outbreak of an eye-bleeding disease. It comes after the World Health Organisation announced there were eight suspected deaths earlier this month,
World Health Organization chief says agency already cutting back on hiring and travel with Trump withdrawal set to hit funding.
President Donald Trump signed an executive order on his first day back in office to begin withdrawing the United States from the World Health Organization, a move that some scientists and faith
While the highest-performing students started to regain lost ground, lower-performing students fell further behind.
The Red Cross museum in Geneva is warning that it risks closure after its funding was axed in a broad government cost-cutting plan, with some suggesting it could be moved
U.S. President Donald Trump is no friend to Canada, and his tariff threats are a menacing shadow as we approach his Feb. 1 deadline. Yet, while the president seems intent on shattering the foundations of the world’s most symbiotic trade relationship,
The directive to the CDC to halt communications with the World Health Organization was imposed to comply with President Trump's executive order.
"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.
Switzerland's President and Finance Minister Karin Keller-Sutter forecast higher annual budget deficits of around 3 billion Swiss Francs ($3.31 billion) in the next few years due to higher military spending and pension costs,