Imogen Foulkes BBC Geneva correspondent AFP US funding cuts will lead to an additional 2,000 new HIV infections each day and over six million further deaths over the next four years, the UNAids chief has warned. It would mark a stark reversal in the global fight against HIV, which has seen the number of deaths
On his first day in office, Lebanon’s new finance minister, Yassine Jaber, sat at his desk reading a color-coded report on the dire state of the ministry’s operations. Nearly everything was marked in alarming red. The computers were decades old — some still ran on Windows 98. Like much of the government, the ministry relied
President Trump’s administration on Friday ended a federal contract that provides legal representation to nearly 26,000 migrant children who entered the United States without a parent or guardian, a move immigration attorneys say will leave children vulnerable to rapid deportation. The contract provided funding for attorneys to represent minors who are under the custody of
Bethan Nimmo BBC News, Oxford PA Media Anneliese Dodds was the first minister attending Sir Keir Starmer’s cabinet to quit over policy Former minister Anneliese Dodds has said her “fundamental” disagreement with Sir Keir Starmer over international aid cuts prompted her to resign. She spoke to BBC Radio Oxford in her first interview since quitting
The leader of a Minnesota anti-hunger nonprofit was convicted in U.S. District Court on Wednesday of masterminding a brazen scheme that reaped more than $240 million in pandemic relief funds with a network of bogus food kitchens that billed the government for 91 million meals. The nonprofit’s leader, Aimee Bock, 44, was convicted by a
U.S. foreign aid cuts impacting Sudanese refugees in Chad have reduced already razor-thin margins for lifesaving resources like food and water, and other U.S. government-funded programs including mental health counseling and education. “When we told [the students] the decision, that we’re going to close the school, most of them were crying,” said Aballah Abakar Abdallah,
A federal judge found on Tuesday that efforts by Elon Musk and his team to permanently shutter the United States Agency for International Development likely violated the Constitution “in multiple ways” and robbed Congress of its authority to oversee the dissolution of an agency it created. The ruling by Judge Theodore D. Chuang of U.S.
Presidents Donald Trump and Vladimir Putin held a critical phone call for at least an hour and a half on a Ukraine ceasefire plan The Kremlin said in a statement that the two leaders had a “detailed and frank exchange of views” on Ukraine Putin agreed for Russia and Ukraine to stop hitting each other’s
Palestinians mourn over the bodies of their relatives killed by an Israeli airstrike in Beit Lahiya, northern Gaza Strip on Saturday. The Israeli military says it was targeting “terrorists” operating a drone in the area. But the head of Gaza’s civil defense, Mahmoud Basal, says they were aid workers from the London-based Al Khair Foundation,
A team of charity workers has been killed in Israeli strikes in northern Gaza, the UK-registered Al Khair Foundation has told the BBC. The charity said eight workers – including volunteers and journalists documenting their activities – were killed when their vehicles were targeted on Saturday in what Hamas described as a “blatant violation” of