The United States has lifted a pause on food donations, the U.N. World Food Programme said, ending a suspension that an aid ...

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US secretary of state Marco Rubio has ordered an immediate halt to work on virtually all existing foreign aid programmes pending a review into whether they are consistent with President Donald Trump’s ...

U.S.-funded aid programs worldwide have begun firing staff and preparing to shut down their operations as an unprecedented Trump administration freeze on foreign assistance brings their work to a ...

The Trump administration is working to identify and exempt specific USAID programmes from a sweeping freeze on foreign aid, ...

Exemptions include humanitarian assistance such as core life-saving medicine, medical services, food, shelter and subsistence ...

The criteria for exemptions will be whether a programme furthers or is aligned with US national interests. Read more at ...

Just hours after taking office on Jan 20, Trump ordered a 90-day foreign aid pause so contributions could be reviewed. Read more at straitstimes.com.