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IN FOCUS: Developing countries will be hit hard by the US president’s decision to cut all aid spending on climate projects, writes Nick Ferris. But other countries will fill some of the gap left by the Trump’s retreat, writes Nick Ferris

The term that perhaps best describes the international impact of the first 100 days of Donald Trump’s second term is “disruption”. His tariff policy, his abolition of USAID, his questioning of the transatlantic alliance, and his attempted rapprochement with Russia have neither destroyed the liberal international order nor established anything…

Dozens of trials on HIV ground to a halt in February after US President Donald Trump abruptly pulled crucial funding.

The Trump administration’s cuts to funding for American universities and research have left many scientists reeling and very worried. At the National Institutes of Health, which has an annual budget of US$47 billion to support medical research both in the U.S. and around the world, nearly 800 grants have been…

From mass firings to unprecedented influence, Musk has left little of the federal government untouched in Doge role

Fifty years after the end of the Vietnam war, the long-term consequences of that conflict continue to affect many Vietnamese people’s daily lives. There are still thousands of unexploded mines and bombs strewn across the region in forests, rice fields and around villages.

Many support centers for Nepal’s LGBTQ+ community have closed since the Trump administration began dismantling the U.S. Agency for International Development

Contractors hired by the Trump administration have removed a memorial wall to fallen staffers from the now-closed headquarters of the U.S. Agency for International Development, with no immediate word on where it will wind up

It signals a dark future for Gaza and Ukraine