Ooh, that’s a big one,” Donald Trump said Monday as he signed an executive order – one of dozens during his first hours as president – to withdraw the United States from the World Health Organization.

World Health Organization chief says agency already cutting back on hiring and travel with Trump withdrawal set to hit funding.

CERRO ARMAZONES, Chile (Reuters) - Dozens of boxes holding mirrors are placed along a remote desert hill in northern Chile as workers make progress in the construction of the Extremely Large Telescope, planned as one of the most capable astronomical observatories ever assembled.

Prioritising US health, Trump has already frozen the supply of HIV and malaria medication aid to endemic countries.

Public health experts say U.S. withdrawal from the W.H.O. would undermine the nation’s standing as a global health leader and make it harder to fight the next pandemic.

The WHO is a United Nations agency that aims to expand universal health coverage, coordinates responses to health emergencies such as pandemics, and has a broad focus on healthy lives. It does not have the power to enforce health policy, but influences policy worldwide, especially in low-income countries.

The United States will leave the World Health Organization, President Donald Trump said on Monday, saying the global health agency had mishandled the COVID-19 pandemic and other international health crises.

On his first day in office, President Donald Trump tabled several dozen executive orders, among them a stunning directive to re-initiate the American withdrawal from the World Health Organization (WHO). The withdrawal process first began in 2020 during ...

The money supports a vast range of efforts, from a million mpox vaccines shipped to the Democratic Republic of the Congo to monitoring for influenza in Chile. While there ... Trump halted U.S. funding to the World Health Organization.

When the plague, cholera and yellow fever rippled deadly waves across a newly industrialised and interconnected world in the mid-19th century, taking a global approach to health became an imperative.

Chile approved a major reform of its pension system, which for many critics had come to symbolize the flaws in the country’s economic model.

The raids come as President Trump said this week he would designate the gang, the Tren de Aragua, or Aragua Train, as a foreign terrorist organization to better fight the group in the American ...