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Over 600 malnourished children die in six months in Nigeria: MSF

More than 600 malnourished children have died in northern Nigeria in six months after failing to receive proper care as foreign aid dries up, medical charity Doctors Without Borders has said.

Radio France Internationale

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The Independent UK

Labour panned for foreign aid cuts as women and children to be hit hardest

THE Labour UK Government has been accused of "increasing poverty at home and abroad" after it emerged women and children would be hit…

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UK admits foreign aid cuts could see deaths rise – with Africa hit hardest

The government’s own impact assessment warns that cuts to projects will likely increase death and disease

The Independent UK

Foreign aid cuts could lead to millions more dying from superbug infections by 2050, study warns

There could be excellent ‘value for money’ from global interventions, scientists say amid foreign aid cuts

The Independent UK

The Latest: House approves Trump’s $9 billion cut to public broadcasting and foreign aid

Republican majorities in both houses of Congress have now approved President Donald Trump’s clawback of about $9 billion for public broadcasting and foreign aid that lawmakers had appropriated

The Independent UK

US House passes Trump plan to cut billions for public broadcasting and foreign aid

The US House approved Trump's plan to cut $9 billion (€7.7bn) in public broadcasting and foreign aid, now awaiting his signature. The bill passed 216-213.

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US Congress Approves $9 Bn In Trump Cuts To Foreign Aid, Public Media

US Republicans early Friday approved President Donald Trump's plan to cancel $9 billion in funding for foreign aid and public broadcasting, vowing it was just the start of broader efforts by Congress to slash the federal budget.

International Business Times

Clawback of $1.1B for PBS and NPR puts rural stations at risk – and threatens a vital source of journalism

The U.S. Senate and the House of Representatives approved by narrow margins on July 17 and 18, 2025, a law that claws back federal funding for the Corporation for Public Broadcasting. Once President Donald Trump signs it into law, the US$9 billion rescissions package will withdraw $1.1 billion Congress had…

The Conversation

The Latest: House prepares to advance cuts on public broadcasting and foreign aid

The House is expected to approve President Donald Trump’s request to claw back about $9 billion in already appropriated funding for public broadcasting and foreign aid

The Independent UK

US Senate approves cutting billions in foreign aid as Trump demands

The package, passed in a 51-48 vote, takes back $8bn in already approved foreign aid spending.

Al Jazeera

US Senators Approve $9 Billion Of Elon Musk's Federal Cuts

The US Senate approved early Thursday a package of spending cuts proposed by President Donald Trump that would cancel more than $9 billion in funding for foreign aid programs and public broadcasting.

International Business Times

PEPFAR keeps millions of people with HIV alive and may be spared from Trump spending cuts

The program known as PEPFAR is one of the most effective and popular U.S. foreign aid projects in history, and the government says it has saved the lives of over 25 million people around the world with HIV

The Independent UK

Senate ‘vote-a-rama’ on rescissions bill begins - Roll Call

Senators began voting Wednesday on amendments to a large foreign aid and public broadcasting rescissions package.

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GOP narrowly advances rescissions package to Senate floor - Roll Call

Senate Republicans had barely enough votes Tuesday to advance President Trump's proposal to claw back money appropriated for public broadcasting and foreign aid.

The Guardian - US

Republicans start vote-a-rama on bill for $9bn public broadcasting and aid cuts

GOP aiming to meet Friday deadline mandated by law for bill, known as a rescissions package, to pass Congress

Roll Call

Big test on rescissions - Roll Call

The Senate will take up a bill to claw back $9.4 billion in foreign aid and public broadcasting funds that Democrats warn would blow up the bipartisan appropriations process. CQ Roll Call’s Aidan Quigley, Paul M. Krawzak and David Lerman assess the political importance of the Trump administration’s rescissions package,…

International Business Times

US Funding Cuts Could Reverse Decades Of Gains In AIDS Fight: UN

The halt to US foreign aid is a "ticking time bomb" that could reverse decades of hard-fought gains in the fight against AIDS, the United Nations warned Thursday.

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Bill Gates Warns US Aid Cuts Could Kill Millions Of Children, End HIV Programs, Leave 75 Million Unvaccinated: 'Devastating' Lancet Study, Gavi, UNAIDS Sound Alarm

Microsoft Corp. co-founder Bill Gates warned on Thursday that U.S. foreign aid cuts could trigger a catastrophic global health crisis, citing new research projecting millions of additional deaths by 2040.

The Independent UK

Critics question UK’s foreign aid commitment at UN conference

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UK accused of hypocrisy at landmark UN foreign aid conference

Experts at the fourth Financing for Development Conference (FfD4) say the UK cannot talk up its role in helping developing nations while cutting aid commitments

International Business Times

Rubio Hails End Of USAID As Bush, Obama Deplore Cost In Lives

The US foreign aid agency formally closed down Tuesday, with President Donald Trump's administration trumpeting the end of the "charity-based model" despite predictions that millions of lives will be lost.

The National (Scotland)

UK and US aid cuts 'may reverse global progress by 30 years', study finds

US president Donald Trump’s choice to cut the majority of US foreign aid funding could result in a “staggering” 14 million deaths by 2030 –…

International Business Times

Over 14 Million People Could Die From US Foreign Aid Cuts: Study

More than 14 million of the world's most vulnerable people, a third of them small children, could die because of the Trump administration's dismantling of US foreign aid, research projected on Tuesday.

AAP

Australian agencies count cost of US foreign aid axing

Water projects in Fiji and Samoa and peace-building efforts in the Papua New Guinea highlands are among projects hit by the US retreat on foreign aid.

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