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US President Donald Trump launched the “Board of Peace” at the World Economic Forum in the Swiss resort of Davos on January 22. Although it was originally proposed in 2025 as a mechanism to oversee the ceasefire and reconstruction of the Gaza Strip, it is now supposed to expand to also address global conflicts. Pakistani Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif signed Trump’s Board of Peace charter in Davos along with other world leaders and views its participation as a way to support a permanent ceasefire and scale up humanitarian aid for the Palestinians.

US Exits WHO: The United States officially announced that it has formally withdrawn from the World Health Organisation (WHO). This move ends Washington’s membership in the global health body.  Meanwhile, according to the Trump administration, the move fulfills a promise made on the president’s first day in office. Also Read- Canada took on Trump in Davos, why is India staying silent? In a joint statement, Secretary of State Marco Rubio and Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. stated that the withdrawal was carried out through an executive order signed by US President Donald Trump and was aimed at freeing the United States from what they described as the organisation’s constraints.  Continue reading “Today, the United States withdrew from the World Health Organization (WHO), freeing itself from its constraints, as President Trump promised on his first day in office by signing E.O. 14155,” the statement said. “This action responds to the WHO’s failures during the COVID-19 pandemic and seeks to rectify the harm from those failures inflicted on the American people.”