WASHINGTON (Reuters) -The Trump administration's nominee to oversee a $42 billion government fund to bring high-speed broadband internet to unserved or underserved parts of the United States denied on Thursday that she would administer the program to benefit Starlink owner Elon Musk.
WASHINGTON (Reuters) -The U.S. State Department said on Thursday that short-term funding was being given to an initiative documenting abducted Ukrainian children, after Republican President Donald Trump's administration decided to pause the program on January 25.
GENEVA (Reuters) -Programmes to help prevent malnourishment in children in Yemen, Afghanistan and Syria could be suspended within months if urgent funding is not found, the U.N.'s World Food Programme warned on Wednesday.
BOSTON (Reuters) -Japanese duo Riku Miura and Ryuichi Kihara recovered from early setbacks to take pairs gold at the World Figure Skating Championships after Thursday's free skate program in Boston.
KINGSTON (Reuters) - U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio on Wednesday said that he would engage with Jamaica over its employment of Cuban doctors to better understand the program there, after Washington threatened to halt visas for officials tied to these programs.
KUALA LUMPUR: Institut Keusahawanan Negara Bhd (Insken) aims to train and mentor 17,552 entrepreneurs through 13 programmes this year to enhance their competitiveness, says Datuk Seri R. Ramanan.
WASHINGTON (Reuters) -Democratic U.S. lawmakers will call on President Donald Trump's administration to restore a program that helps track thousands of Ukrainian children abducted by Russia, and to use sanctions to punish those responsible for the rights violation.
QUIBDO, Colombia (Reuters) - The global suspension of USAID funding is shuttering peace and anti-gang programs in Colombia's most impoverished places, endangering implementation of the country's 2016 peace deal with leftist FARC rebels, according to officials, people working with the agency and beneficiaries.
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. State Department on Wednesday denied that data collected in a government-funded program that helps track thousands of abducted Ukrainian children had been deleted, but acknowledged that the effort had been terminated as part of Washington's sweeping freeze on almost all foreign aid.
KOTA KINABALU: A total of 3,000 Rumah Mesra SMJ units will be built this year to provide housing for hardcore poor families, says Chief Minister Datuk Seri Hajiji Noor.
(Reuters) -Countries, including the United States, cutting down funding for life-saving global health projects could jeopardize vaccination programs that protect children and adults from deadly diseases, the World Health Organization said on Tuesday.
KUALA LUMPUR: Higher Education Minister Datuk Seri Dr Zambry Abd Kadir will present a Cabinet memorandum to facilitate the introduction of law programmes as a new faculty in Sabah and Sarawak.
(Reuters) - Democrats in the U.S. Senate will ask the Department of Agriculture to reverse the cancellation of programs that have funneled more than $2 billion for local food purchases to schools and food banks, according to a copy of a letter seen by Reuters.
(Reuters) -The Netherlands, one of the world's largest egg exporters, has launched a pilot program on a laying-hen farm to vaccinate poultry against bird flu with the aim of achieving large-scale vaccination, the government said on Monday.
Asean Secretary-General Dr Kao Kim Hourn will lead the Asean Secretariat delegation at the 22nd High-Level Task Force Meeting on the Asean Community's Post-2025 Vision in Penang, Malaysia, starting Tuesday.
HARARE, March 6 (Xinhua) -- Thirty-two Zimbabwean students will go to China to study mechatronics engineering under a joint training program between two vocational colleges.
WASHINGTON (Reuters) -The Trump administration has canceled more than 80 percent of all the programs at U.S. Agency for International Development following a six-week review, U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio said on Monday.
OVER 600 communities are set to benefit from a RM60mil allocation to "Sejahtera Komuniti Madani" (Sejati Madani) programme in Perak this year.
DUBAI (Reuters) - Iran would consider negotiations with the U.S. if the aim of the talks was to address concerns regarding any potential militarization of its nuclear program, Iran's U.N. mission said on Sunday in a post on X.
SEOUL, March 8 (Xinhua) -- The ninth trilateral journalist exchange program among China, Japan and the Republic of Korea, organized by the Trilateral Cooperation Secretariat (TCS) based in Seoul, wrapped up here on Saturday.