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

The dollar initially weakened after Trump’s inaugural address did not explicitly announce tariffs, but rallied after he said the US could impose 25 per cent levies on Mexico and Canada. Trump postponed the ban on TikTok but said he “certainly could” put tariffs on China if Beijing failed to approve a deal to sell the app to a US company.

This is the second time Trump tried to withdraw from WHO, with the first attempt in July 2020 at the height of the COVID-19 pandemic.

Public health experts say the United States’ departure could cripple the WHO’s operations or leave an opening for China to assume greater control over the agency.

Donald Trump cast himself both as a peacemaker and fierce defender of US interests in a mercurial return to the White House on Monday, vowing to seize the Panama Canal but also imploring Russia to make a deal on Ukraine.

22 (UPI) --President Donald Trump on Wednesday threatened Moscow with sanctions and called on President Vladimir Putin to make a ... Russia helped the allies win World War II.

Donald Trump was sworn in as the 47th President of the United States on Monday at noon local time (10:30 IST) at a ceremony held inside the Rotunda of the US Capitol.

Former Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi has decried Trump’s pardoning of 1,600 Jan 6 Capitol rioters as a ‘shameful and outrageous insult’.

Belarus’ authoritarian President Alexander Lukashenko is all but certain to extend his more than three decades in power in Sunday’s election that is rejected by the opposition as a farce after years of sweeping repressions.

President Donald Trump said on Saturday he may consider rejoining the World Health Organization, days after ordering a U.S. exit from the global health agency over what he described as a mishandling of the COVID-19 pandemic and other international health crises.