WASHINGTON—The UN Secretariat is preparing to cut its $3.7-billion budget by 20 percent and slash about 6,900 jobs, according to an internal memo seen by Reuters. The directive, which asks staff to detail cuts by June 13,

He keeps using that word. I do not think it means what he thinks it means.

President Donald Trump has slashed US aid and vowed a major rethink on helping the world. A controversial effort to bring food to Gaza may offer clues on what's to come.

In February Mr Trump halted graft investigations under the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act, blaming the law for erecting “excessive barriers to American commerce”. Though Mr Trump loves economic coercion, his special envoy, Ric Grenell, has claimed that his boss frets that “sanctions penalise American companies”.

UNITED NATIONS — More than 60 United Nations offices, agencies and operations have been ordered to submit proposals by mid-June to cut 20% of their staff, as part of a major reform effort to consolidate operations in the face of a critical funding crunch.

Shashi Tharoor's video criticising Donald Trump has been going viral, however, it is from last year as against the claim of it being from his current delegation to the US. Tharoor has always been a class apart intellectual who has an international reputation.

Trump said Musk would still be "coming and going" from the White House after a turbulent four months in which DOGE (Department of Government Efficiency) cut tens of thousands of jobs, shuttered entire agencies and slashed foreign aid.

Donald Trump has accused European countries of not helping with the HIV/Aids pandemic, as the UN warned sweeping US cuts to its HIV response programme will cost millions of lives.Speaking to The Independent as part of a new documentary on the impact of the cuts,