Gates Foundation Report Calls for Targeted Global Health Spending to Save Millions of Children from Malnutrition and Disease

In its eighth annual Goalkeepers report released today, the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation urged world leaders to increase global health spending where it is needed most in order to boost children’s health and nutrition, especially in the face of the global climate crisis. The Goalkeepers report, “A Race to Nourish a Warming World,” projects that without immediate global action, climate change will condemn an additional 40 million […]

September 17, 2024 14

Business / Economics

ByteDance given nine months to divest TikTok amid data concerns

US President Joe Biden has signed into law a 95 billion dollar package to provide weapons and funding to Ukraine, Israel, and Taiwan - as well as a possible ban on the social media app TikTok. It comes after months of political wrangling and delays over sending aid to overseas conflicts. Kate Fisher reports from Washington. Separately, the BBC reports that TikTok says it will challenge in court an "unconstitutional" […]

April 24, 2024 75

World

U.S Congress mulls over foreign aid bills for Israel and Ukraine

Lawmakers in the United States are discussing a new set of foreign aid bills which Congressional leaders are hoping to pass this weekend. They include roughly $95 billion worth of spending to support Israel, Ukraine and Taiwan — as well as providing humanitarian relief to Gaza. Pressure to approve the funding has intensified following Iran's airstrikes on Israel last week. On Thursday, the US unveiled sanctions against the Iranian regime. […]

April 19, 2024 23

Africa

U.S. remains committed to Africa

US Secretary of State Anthony Blinken has begun a four-nation tour of the continent in Cape Verde. Blinken will also be going to Ivory Coast, Nigeria and Angola. The AFP news agency reports that he told his audience in Cape Verde that “we are all in when it comes to Africa". The US has contributed around $150 million to Cape Verde through various programs, including expanding the capital's port, road […]

January 23, 2024 12