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2026-02-17 03:00:03 (1 day ago)

Trump has pulled the US out of the World Health Organization – here’s why that’s sheer hypocrisy | Devi Sridhar

There’s a lesson here for the UK and the anti-WHO Nigel Farage – Trump attacks it in public, but in private he knows he still needs it

Donald Trump is persistent. In his first term as president, he withdrew the US from the World Health Organization (WHO) on 6 July 2020, giving the necessary one-year notice period. Soon after, Joe Biden was elected, and he reversed this executive order within days of being in office, reinstating the US support for the agency on 20 January 2021. While many hoped this would be the end of the story, Trump came back with a vengeance in his second term and immediately signed an executive order withdrawing on 20 January 2025.

This means that – buried under news of other Trump-related chaos – the US formally left the WHO at the end of last month. It is just the second time in the agency’s history a major power has left. In 1949, during the cold war, the USSR withdrew citing unhappiness with the US influence over the organisation. In 1956, with concerns over disease surveillance and spread, the USSR re-engaged with the UN system.

Prof Devi Sridhar is chair of global public health at the University of Edinburgh

The Guardian - World News

2026-02-17 03:00:03 (1 day ago)

‘They were like bombs’: Helenio Herrera’s little white pills kept Inter’s players buzzing

In an extract from his book, Richard Fitzpatrick reveals in the early 1960s the grand Italian club was equipped for doping like ‘a small hospital’

The quantity of drugs floating around the campus at Inter in the early 1960s meant the club was equipped like “a small hospital”, to borrow an expression used about the doping culture at Juventus in the 1990s. Inter’s coach Helenio Herrera – or “HH”, as he was known in the world of football – used the players on the youth team as “guinea pigs” for his drug experiments, according to Ferruccio Mazzola, who was on the books at Inter’s academy at the time (and a younger brother of Sandro Mazzola, one of the team’s star players).

“I can describe the effects of those white tablets,” he wrote in a confessional memoir. He said he couldn’t sleep after taking HH’s pills. The hallucinations left him like a fish thrown up on the bank of a river. “I was shaking all over. I looked like an epileptic. I was scared. Also, the effect lasted for days and was followed by a sudden, tremendous tiredness.”

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2026-02-17 02:57:33 (1 day ago)

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RT News - Top Stories

2026-02-17 02:45:00 (1 day ago)

Former Pakistani PM Imran Khan denied medical care in prison – sister

The Pakistani authorities have not allowed family members to meet Imran Khan despite his health issues, Naureen Niazi has said
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Al Jazeera - Top Stories

2026-02-17 02:36:46 (1 day ago)

Imran Khan’s sister rejects Pakistan gov’t claim jailed ex-PM’s vision fine

Government board says jailed ex-leader's sight improved since he lost most vision in eye. But his family rejects claim.

Al Jazeera - Top Stories

2026-02-17 02:30:00 (1 day ago)

Russia-Ukraine talks live: Sides ramp up attacks before US-led negotiations

The negotiations follow two rounds of talks held in the United Arab Emirates.

Al Jazeera - Top Stories

2026-02-17 02:29:29 (1 day ago)

Trump urges Iran to make nuclear deal saying he’ll be ‘indirectly’ involved

US President Donald Trump said he will take part in Tuesday’s talks with Iran from Washington.

Al Jazeera - Top Stories

2026-02-17 02:23:52 (2 days ago)

Philippines rebukes China embassy over ‘coercive’ warning of job losses

Diplomatic dispute escalates as Beijing and Manila present competing narratives over the South China Sea.

Al Jazeera - Top Stories

2026-02-17 02:20:49 (2 days ago)

More than a dozen killed in bomb blasts, gunfire in Pakistan’s northwest

Eleven security personnel and a child killed in Bajaur district, as after two killed in separate incident in Bannu.

Times of India

2026-02-17 02:18:46 (2 days ago)

Earth has just 5 billion years left: The shocking truth about our planet’s lifespan

Al Jazeera - Top Stories

2026-02-17 02:10:23 (2 days ago)

Exodus of ISIL-linked detainees from Syria camp sparks security concerns

The al-Hol camp population is reported to have dropped by thousands after SDF's chaotic handover to Syrian government.

The Guardian - World News

2026-02-17 02:00:04 (2 days ago)

My Sister’s Bones review – drab adaptation doesn’t deliver the dark punch of the bestselling novel

Despite the best efforts of the fine cast this psychological thriller about a war correspondent returning to her home town falls short of exploring the full scope of family trauma

Fans of Nuala Ellwood’s bestselling psychological thriller about a war reporter revisiting the horrors of her childhood in Herne Bay may decide to stick with the book after this drab adaptation. Like a black sock that has infiltrated a wash-load of white bedsheets, the story has come out a dreary dull grey. The movie is stubbornly unintriguing despite a fine cast of actors doing their utmost. Even the almighty twist ending fails to pick up the pace.

Jenny Seagrove plays Kate Rafter, a hardened correspondent haunted by PTSD. She’s back from a stint in Aleppo for her mum’s funeral and staying in her childhood home. Seagrove plays it imperiously, eyes flashing; Kate has witnessed terrible atrocities, and seems irritated by the smallness of the lives in her home town. But she is raw and damaged; there are flashbacks to Iraq where she befriended a young boy, and some unconvincing scenes of sessions with a psychologist trying to unpick the trauma of her childhood in a home terrorised by a violent alcoholic father. When Kate starts hearing a child crying in the next door house, no one believes her.