The United States will leave the World Health Organization, President Donald Trump said on Monday, saying the global health agency had mishandled the COVID-19 pandemic and other international health crises.

Berlin will try to talk U.S. President Donald Trump out of his decision to withdraw the United States from the World Health Organization, Germany's health minister said on Tuesday.

Trump is driven by memory, not by today’s reality. Nonetheless, the history of how China coopted WHO to suppress Covid-19 inquiries is shocking and has been under-reported, as Michael Sheridan

GENEVA, Ill. (WLS) -- Local President Donald Trump supporters turned out in force Monday for a watch party of the inaugural events. There was not a spare seat to be found. At FoxFire in Geneva, it was a packed house, with everyone listening closely to the new president taking the oath of office and addressing the nation.

The new US president’s announcement to withdraw from the World Health Organisation (WHO) is a serious blow to the international fight against global health crises. We will try to persuade Donald Trump to reconsider this decision,

GENEVA: President Donald Trump's decision to pull the United States out of the World Health Organization on Monday (Jan 20) leaves the WHO facing a major blow to its budget.

WHO’s constitution, drafted in New York, doesn’t have a clear exit method for member states. A joint resolution by Congress in 1948 outlined that the U.S. can withdraw with one year's notice. This is contingent, however, on ensuring that its financial obligations to WHO “shall be met in full for the organization’s current fiscal year.”

Experts have also cautioned that withdrawing from the organization could weaken the world’s defenses against dangerous new outbreaks.

North Korea defended its right to maintain a nuclear weapons program at a United Nations disarmament conference held shortly after U.S. President Donald Trump referred to the North as a "nuclear power.

The Geneva-based WHO plays a pivotal role in battling global health threats, focusing on infectious diseases as well as humanitarian crises and chronic