Some 150 Ukrainian teenagers from northeastern areas near the frontlines of the war with Russia had already packed their bags to travel west for an educational retreat far from the shelling and fighting.

"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.

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.

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

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.

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

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.

"Ukraine is ready to make a deal," Trump ... He has announced the U.S. withdrawal from the World Health Organization and the Paris Climate Treaty, threatened to pull the United States out of ...

U.S. public health officials have been told to stop working with the World Health Organization, effective immediately.

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.

The 'doomsday clock,' symbolizing how close humanity is to destruction, ticked one second closer to midnight Tuesday as concerns on nuclear war,