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US appeals court lets Trump slash billions in foreign aid

Critics argue President Trump has overstepped his constitutional authority by slashing congressionally approved aid.

Al Jazeera

Court limits funding lawsuits to GAO - Roll Call

Decision undoes a lower court ruling requiring the Trump administration to start spending funds for USAID and other foreign assistance funds.

Roll Call

Soaring demand at food banks across Africa thanks to massive aid cuts

IN FOCUS: Food banks in Kenya, Nigeria and South Africa say they are under increasing pressure, writes Nick Ferris – with aid cuts by Donald Trump’s US and other nations compounding the impact of the climate crisis and a spike in the cost of living

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New Trump labor official has history of racist, sexist and conspiratorial posts

Jessico Bowman falsely claimed January 6 riot was ‘Democrat plot’ and made several sexually graphic posts about Kamala Harris

The Guardian - US

Refugees in Kenya impacted by food aid cuts; WFP rolls out new system

The WFP says aid is being cut by 60 percent for the most vulnerable groups including pregnant women and disabled people.

Al Jazeera

Nepal's LGBTQ+ community holds first Pride rally since US funding cuts

Nepal's LGBTQ+ community and supporters have rallied in Kathmandu in the annual Pride parade

The Independent UK

‘She’s the one that matters’: the growing influence of Melania on Donald Trump

First lady is facing increased scrutiny as political experts suggest she is behind US president’s recent volte-faces on Gaza and Putin

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This country won the battle against its maternal deaths crisis. Trump’s aid cuts could ruin all that

IN FOCUS: Twenty years ago, a shake-up of Ethiopia’s abortion law led the maternal mortality rate to dramatically fall. Doctors tell Rachel Schraer that progress could be about to go into reverse because of US funding cuts.

The Independent UK

Friday essay: Trump and Kennedy are destroying global science. Even Einstein questioned facts – but there’s a method to it

Eight months into Donald Trump’s second presidency of the United States, truth and science are again under attack – with global consequences. USAID, which tackled HIV, TB, malaria and child malnutrition is gone. Funding has been withdrawn from GAVI, a public–private global alliance that helps buy vaccines for the world’s…

The Conversation

Endangered US contraceptives put 1.4 million women at risk, NGO claims

More than 1.4 million women and girls in Africa will lose access to contraceptives as the U.S. plans to burn $10 million worth of supplies stored in Europe.

Euronews

US destruction of contraceptives denies 1.4m African women and girls lifesaving care, NGO says

Incineration of $9.7m of contraceptives to lead to 174,000 unintended pregnancies and 56,000 unsafe abortions, IPPF says

The Guardian - UK

Trump’s destructive plan ‘will deny 1.4m women and girls birth control’

The supplies could prevent an estimated 174,000 unintended pregnancies and 56,000 unsafe abortions if they were handed out, the International Planned Parenthood Federation says

The Independent UK

Food earmarked for millions of people still languishes in warehouses after Trump shuttered USAID

There are concerns that millions of dollars’ worth of food aid is at risk of spoiling or has expired as a result of the administration dismantling USAID

The Independent UK

France says it cannot block US plans to destroy contraceptives

France said Friday it could not seize $9.7 million (€8.4 million) worth of women's contraception products that the United States plans to destroy, after media reports suggested the stockpile would be incinerated in the country.

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The struggle to protect wildlife around the world as Trump’s aid cuts start to bite

IN FOCUS: Six months on from the US president’s order to halt all foreign assistance, Nick Ferris explores just how badly wildlife conservation programmes have been impacted – and how they have managed to keep operations going against the odds

International Business Times

France Says It Cannot Save Contraceptives US Plans To Destroy

France said Friday it could not seize women's contraception products estimated to be worth $9.7 million that the United States plans to destroy, after media reports suggested the stockpile would be incinerated in the country.

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Trump administration says it hasn't decided on fate of contraceptives facing destruction in Belgium

Global health groups and European lawmakers have called for the contraceptives to be spared.

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The Guardian - UK

France under pressure to stop $9.7m of USAID contraceptives being destroyed

US reportedly planning to destroy contraceptives, probably destined for Africa, in France after dismantling USAID

Radio France Internationale

France supports Belgium's push to block US destruction of contraceptives

France has confirmed it is monitoring a US plan to incinerate millions of dollars worth of unused contraceptives in Europe – a move aid groups say is ideologically driven and medically wasteful.

Euronews

European stockpile of USAID-funded contraceptives faces destruction

Contraceptives valued at $10 million stored in Europe face destruction following the closure of a key American aid agency, amid backlash from global health groups calling for redistribution.

Radio France Internationale

Protests erupt at Kakuma refugee camp in Kenya following aid cuts

Violent protests broke out at one of Kenya's largest refugee camps on Monday, humanitarian sources said, with unconfirmed reports of at least one death, following months of increased tensions over aid cuts.

The Guardian - US

Democrats demand Trump cut funding for controversial Gaza aid organization

In letter, 21 senators say funding to GHF resulted in killings of more than 700 civilians seeking food and violated the law

The Independent UK

Pete Buttigieg says Democratic Party’s attachment to two words handed Trump the White House in 2024

Joe Biden’s transportation secretary says it’s ‘wrong to imagine that we should have just kept everything going along the way it was’ or to dismantle everything Republican president is now doing

Radio France Internationale

French left urges Macron not to be complicit in US plan to bin contraceptives

Left-wing politicians in France have called on President Emmanuel Macron to intervene over US plans to destroy nearly $10 million worth of female contraceptives in Europe, calling it an "affront" to public health.

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