11 h. ago HIV soars after a deadly war in Ethiopia's Tigray. Trump's aid cuts aren't helping

Ethiopia's Tigray region was once considered a model in the country's fight against HIV

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18 h. ago The rare turtle stranded in Wales thanks to Trump’s aid freeze

A Kemp's ridley sea turtle named Rhossi was found on the coast of northern Wales in 2023 - now he can’t get home

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25 h. ago Teenage Migrant Injured Turtle! Hurt young sea creature from the US is stranded in Wales after Trump foreign aid freeze

The Kemp's ridley sea turtle, Rhossi, washed up on Anglesey at the end of 2023 but was slowly nursed back to health and had been poised to return to the wild.

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6 d. ago Here’s how some human rights and LGBTQ+ groups prepared for major foreign aid cuts under Trump

The Trump administration's cuts to foreign aid have defunded groups that campaign for LGBTQ+ communities and for democracy around the world

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6 d. ago Trump administration ‘villainizes’ immigrant families with misleading directive on food aid

Experts warn new memo could deter families from accessing food assistance, despite no changes to eligibility rulesThe Trump administration is now using popular anti-hunger programs, including food assistance and school lunch, as part of its attack against immigrants in the US – a move many say will prevent large numbers of families, especially children, from getting the food benefits they’re eligible for.In a recent memo, agriculture secretary Brooke Rollins told senior staff at the USDA’s Food and Nutrition Service (FNS): “It is essential to use all available legal authority to end any incentives in FNS benefit programs that encourage illegal immigration.” Continue reading...

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7 d. ago Putin agrees to halt strikes on Ukraine's energy infrastructure as he calls on Trump to end military aid

Donald Trump and Vladimir Putin held a call on Tuesday

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8 d. ago Mother and calf dolphin saved from stranding themselves on Welsh coast

The pair had got too close to the shore and were in danger of getting stranded

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9 d. ago US evangelical groups urge Trump to spare HIV/Aids program from aid cuts

Christian organizations helped create Pepfar, credited with preventing 25m early deaths, particularly in AfricaChristian evangelical organizations instrumental in creating the US program that has saved millions of lives from HIV/Aids are pressing the Trump administration to rescue the scheme from crushing cuts to foreign assistance.The state department has said that the two-decade-old President’s Emergency Plan for Aids Relief (Pepfar), which is estimated to have prevented 25m early deaths, is exempt from the cancellation of most US overseas aid. But the program is heavily reliant on logistical support from the US Agency for International Development (USAid), which has seen most of its projects killed off. Continue reading...

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1 week ago Marco Rubio declares South African ambassador to US persona non grata after Trump criticism

Declaration comes after Trump administration cut off aid to South Africa

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1 week ago Marco Rubio declares South African envoy to US persona non grata over speech criticizing Trump, Musk and Vance

Declaration comes after Trump administration cut off aid to South Africa

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1 week ago Ukraine army chief's scathing take on Donald Trump's decision to cut military aid

Volodymyr Zelensky's popularity has reportedly "skyrocketed" on the front since his showdown with Donald Trump in the Oval Office - after he showed an unwillingness to back down

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1 week ago Rubio declares South African ambassador to US persona non grata over speech criticizing Trump, Musk and Vance

Declaration comes after Trump administration cut off aid to South Africa

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1 week ago Aid workers warn ‘people are dying and they’re going to continue dying’ as funding cuts hit

Moves by US, UK and other donors to cut aid mean ‘high malnutrition rates, starvation and death’, say expertsCuts to food assistance by the US, Britain and others are already leading to more people starving to death around the world, experts have warned.As the United Nations and other agencies try to understand just how badly President Donald Trump’s announced 83% cut in funding to USAid will affect the world’s most vulnerable people, the UN’s World Food Programme (WFP) has said its aid provision in Somalia is being reduced, after last month’s estimate that 4.4 million people in the east African nation will be pushed into malnutrition from April because of drought, global inflation and conflict. Continue reading...

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1 week ago The Guardian view on Trump and Ukraine: respite is possible, but resolution looks distant | Editorial

Will-they-won’t-they over a ceasefire does not change the underlying dynamics of US retreat from supporting Kyiv A three-year conflict has taken bewildering, lurching turns in under a fortnight. Less than two weeks after Donald Trump berated Volodymyr Zelenskyy, ejected him from the White House and cut off Ukraine’s support, he U-turned to threaten financial measures “that would be very bad for Russia” if it did not reach a deal with Kyiv. Ukraine’s acceptance of a 30-day ceasefire proposal, building on its own suggestion of a halt in air and maritime conflict, threw the onus on Moscow. On Thursday, Vladimir Putin claimed to support the idea in theory – but warned of “serious issues” to address.Ukraine’s agreement prompted the resumption of US intelligence sharing and military aid, which may well have been Kyiv’s primary aim. Mr Trump would like to take the credit – and perhaps aspires to a Nobel prize – for a peace deal. Mr Trump, who was hosting Nato’s sec...

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2 w. ago Trump’s ‘drill, baby, drill’ agenda could keep the world hooked on oil and gas

The US president is making energy deals with Japan and Ukraine, and in Africa has even touted resurrecting coalDonald Trump’s repeated mantra of “drill, baby, drill” demands that more oil and gas be extracted in the United States, but the president has set his sights on an even broader goal: keeping the world hooked on planet-heating fossil fuels for as long as possible.In deals being formulated with countries such as Japan and Ukraine, Trump is using US leverage in tariffs and military aid to bolster the flow of oil and gas around the world. In Africa, his administration has even touted the resurrection of coal, the dirtiest of all fossil fuels, to bring energy to the continent. Continue reading...

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2 w. ago Trump embraces chaos with reversals on tariffs and Ukraine aid

Analysis: America’s global relationships, like the economy, are stressed by such rapid back-and-forth policy shifts, writes John Bowden

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2 w. ago Trump freezes $1 billion in food aid given to local schools and food banks to help low

The Trump administration reportedly said it had determined this funding ‘no longer effectuates agency priorities and that termination of the award is appropriate,’ the Massachusetts governor said

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2 w. ago Suspension of USAID funding by Trump administration likely violated Constitution, judge says

For the second time, a federal judge has ordered the Trump administration to pay out money Congress appropriated to foreign aid partners

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2 w. ago How Starmer finally found his voice as prime minister – by doing what even Tony Blair feared to do

Sir Keir has begun to look like a prime minister by slashing international aid, cutting welfare and cosying up to Trump - not moves anyone expected from a Labour leader, as David Maddox explains

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2 w. ago Donald Trump set to lift ban on sharing aid and intelligence with Ukraine after last

The United States was last night poised to lift its ban on military aid and intelligence support for Ukraine after a plea by Sir Keir Starmer.

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