Ooh, that’s a big one,” Donald Trump said Monday as he signed an executive order – one of dozens during his first hours as president – to withdraw the United States from the World Health Organization.

The dollar initially weakened after Trump’s inaugural address did not explicitly announce tariffs, but rallied after he said the US could impose 25 per cent levies on Mexico and Canada. Trump postponed the ban on TikTok but said he “certainly could” put tariffs on China if Beijing failed to approve a deal to sell the app to a US company.

Public health experts say the United States’ departure could cripple the WHO’s operations or leave an opening for China to assume greater control over the agency.

China and Russia vow to elevate relationship as US president issues executive orders on domestic and global issues and delays TikTok ban.

President Vladimir V. Putin of Russia praised ... who on Monday ordered the United States to withdraw from the World Health Organization and the Paris Agreement, a U.N. climate pact.

President Trump signed an executive order​ on the first day of his second term, beginning the process of withdrawing the U.S. from the World Health Organization.

Trump initially removed the U.S. from the WHO in 2020, but Biden reversed his action before it went into effect.

Donald Trump cast himself both as a peacemaker and fierce defender of US interests in a mercurial return to the White House on Monday, vowing to seize the Panama Canal but also imploring Russia to make a deal on Ukraine.

Former Russian Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev, a close ally of Russian President Vladimir Putin, said on Sunday that a nuclear war with the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) almost began ...

Trump has often spoken warmly of Putin but Monday in the Oval Office, the newly inaugurated president made some of the most critical comments he’s ever made.

World Health Organization chief says agency already cutting back on hiring and travel with Trump withdrawal set to hit funding.

This is the second time Trump tried to withdraw from WHO, with the first attempt in July 2020 at the height of the COVID-19 pandemic.