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Already facing Trump administration cuts, US colleges risk losses from another revenue source: foreign students
Foreign students considering whether to attend college in the US are looking at a new landscape, including the revocation of ...
Trump administration’s foreign aid cuts threaten to roll back global maternal mortality progress
Maternal mortality rates have declined significantly across the world since the turn of the century, but global health ...
DOGE staffer appointed as acting head of US State Dept foreign assistance office
The administration of President Donald Trump has appointed a key member of billionaire Elon Musk's Department of Government ...
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US restores urgent food aid, except in Afghanistan and Yemen, two of the world’s poorest countries
U.S. President Donald Trump's administration has reversed new cutoffs in emergency food aid to several nations but maintained ...
Trump Targets NPR, PBS, Foreign Aid in $9 Billion Spending Cut
The Trump administration will ask lawmakers to cut more than $9 billion in funding for the Public Broadcasting Service, ...
Britain’s aid cuts harm the world – and the UK itself
Editorial: New figures on the global impact of Labour’s aid cuts make sobering reading. Britain must not shirk its duty on ...
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25 million deaths: what could happen if the US ends global health funding
The United States spent roughly US$12 billion on global health in 2024. Without that yearly spending, roughly 25 million ...
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US Mideast allies face ‘worst-case scenario’ with Trump aid cuts and tariff whiplash
The withdrawal of aid by the U.S. and Europe could feed extremism and lead to a surge in emigration, experts warn.
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Trump administration plan for future of foreign aid ‘will cause further suffering’ — Oxfam
In response to the reported Trump administration proposal for the future of the State Department and US foreign aid, Oxfam America President & CEO Abby Maxman said: ...
DOGE associate is made acting head of foreign assistance at the State Department, a US official says
The Trump administration has expanded the power of adviser Elon Musk’s government-cutting team over the State Department.
‘In Three Months, Half of Them Will Be Dead’
Elon Musk promised to preserve lifesaving aid to foreign children. Then the Trump administration quietly canceled it.
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Devex Newswire: Trump aid cuts rattle the UN’s humanitarian capital
Geneva, long the diplomatic engine room of the United Nations, is reeling under the impact of U.S. President Donald Trump's ...