In a memo, the department told lawmakers it was redirecting up to $125 million in foreign aid, including nearly $49 million that Congress appropriated for family planning programs in low-income countr...

Sarai is overseeing a shift in foreign aid as Carney’s government cuts back on global health spending and encourages more private funding

The Faroe Islands have provided much less support to Ukraine than their Nordic neighbours, and the political system should give more, former foreign affairs ministers Sirið Stenberg and Jenis av Rana told KVF’s Breddin programme. The islands have given about 25 million kroner since Russia’s invas…

OTTAWA — Canada’s deepening ties with Europe could help fill some of the massive gaps left behind as the United States pulls back from foreign aid and embraces a “transactional” approach, says the secretary of state for international development. “When we put all our heads together, I think the opportunities are endless,” Randeep Sarai told The Canadian Press. He said this effort includes recent talks with the European Union on leveraging private dollars and philanthropy for aid, while maintaining some government funding for the world’s most vulnerable. Sarai is overseeing a shift in foreign aid as the government of Prime Minister Mark Carney cuts back on global health spending and encourages more private funding in development projects. Ottawa is cutting spending across government, seeking new trade partners and boosting the defence budget to make Canada less vulnerable to U.S. President Donald Trump’s tariffs and threats of annexation. The Trump administration shut down the United States Agency for International Development, USAID, leading to what Harvard University researchers estimate to be hundreds of thousands of preventable deaths. In April, the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development reported that the U.S. in 2025 accounted for 17 per cent of spending by rich countries...

GAO found that State never wrote the aid review standards its January 2025 cable promised within thirty days. State's answer was to point at OMB.

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The UN WFP has said funding shortages are forcing major cuts to its aid program in Gaza, leaving 500,000 people without monthly food support.

Indonesian authorities said they would consider offers of foreign assistance to tackle the country's biggest forest fires in over a decade.

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