The Geneva-based World Health Organization (WHO) has proposed cutting its budget by a fifth. This comes after its largest contributor, the US, decided to withdraw. The organisation must now reduce its tasks and staff, it said.

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    3 days ago

    Yeah I’m kind of surprised and in a way reassured.

    Whatever the US contribution of $100m was doing it wasn’t fending off the next pandemic.

    I live in a very small city in nowhere Australia and we just spent $100m on a highway upgrade.