Ukraine-Russia war latest: European leaders to hold emergency summit as US plans talks with Russian officials
European leaders to hold emergency summit as US plans talks with Russian officials - Ukraine has insisted they will not ...
The Times of Israel9d
Hamas gunmen caught on tape accusing leaders of hoarding humanitarian aid
In unencrypted radio communications intercepted by Israel in early 2024, low-level Hamas operatives in Gaza can be heard accusing their leaders of hoarding humanitarian aid and of ordering an ...
United Nations Regional Information Centre8d
Norway Signs Multi-Million Aid Agreements for Humanitarian Assistance
The Norwegian government has announced six new agreements with various Norwegian humanitarian aid organizations. According to the agreement, Norway will support these organizations with NOK 1.9 ...
The New York Times3d
Trump Appointees Fire Hundreds at U.S.A.I.D. Working on Urgent Aid
The firings added to doubts about whether Secretary of State Marco Rubio, the agency’s acting head, supports lifesaving humanitarian assistance, as he has said he does. By Edward Wong and Zolan ...
CNN21d
How the US foreign aid freeze is intensifying humanitarian crises across the globe
Despite the administration saying that it has issued waivers for all programs involving life-saving humanitarian aid and food assistance, multiple USAID employees and contractors told CNN that ...
CNN28d
As humanitarian officials warn people could die as a result of Trump’s foreign aid halt, Rubio issues new waiver
Days after Rubio’s initial directive, the impact of the aid freeze is already being felt, as humanitarian officials warned it could have catastrophic implications. One predicted that if the ...
Reuters28d
US issues new waiver for humanitarian aid amid freeze
WASHINGTON, Jan 28 (Reuters) - U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio issued a waiver on Tuesday for life-saving humanitarian assistance during a 90-day pause in foreign aid while Washington ...
Devex28d
State Department approves waiver for lifesaving humanitarian aid
Existing lifesaving medicine, medical services, food, shelter, and subsistence assistance programs can continue during the U.S. foreign aid freeze. U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio approved a ...
The Peninsula12d
UNRWA urges further humanitarian aid into Gaza
New York: The UN Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees (UNRWA) has called for further humanitarian aid to meet immense needs in the Gaza Strip. In a post on its X platform Friday ...
The Straits Times4d
US exempts security funds from aid freeze - but little for humanitarian programmes
WASHINGTON - The Trump administration released $5.3 billion in previously frozen foreign aid, mostly for security and counternarcotics programmes, according to a list of exemptions reviewed by ...
America Magazine26d
Trump’s foreign aid freeze a ‘death sentence’ for many humanitarian groups
Though Mr. Rubio has clarified that aid flows for lifesaving humanitarian interventions should not be affected by the administration’s funding freeze, these Jesuit-sponsored education ...
The Washington Post28d
Rubio backtracks on near-total foreign aid freeze, issues humanitarian waiver
Secretary of State Marco Rubio on Tuesday approved a new waiver for lifesaving humanitarian assistance in a memo sent to aid groups amid widespread confusion over which programs in the roughly $60 ...