Earlier this year, the Trump administration dismantled USAID, the agency responsible for international aid. US Secretary of State Marco Rubio insists that "no one has died" because of the cuts. Even though the US withdrew from Afghanistan four years ago, it had still contributed nearly half their total aid. Then it cancelled $1.7 billion in contracts, of which around $500 million had yet to be disbursed. The US State Department did not respond to CNN’s request for comment. CNN's Isobel Yeung traveled to Afghanistan to investigate.
Earlier this year, the Trump administration dismantled USAID, the agency responsible for international aid. US Secretary of State Marco Rubio insists that "no one has died" because of the cuts. Even though the US withdrew from Afghanistan four years ago, it had still contributed nearly half their total aid. Then it cancelled $1.7 billion in contracts, of which around $500 million had yet to be disbursed. The US State Department did not respond to CNN’s request for comment. CNN's Isobel Yeung traveled to Afghanistan to investigate.
Video captured by specialist cave divers shows the harrowing route taken during the mission to rescue missing villagers from a remote cave in Laos.
One survivor was rescued from a flooded cave in Laos after being trapped for over a week. CNN's Will Ripley and Kocha Olarn spoke with the rescue diver that performed the extraction to get the first person out.
CNN's Will Ripley spoke to Samorn Ian whose husband Kamla Ian is one of five villagers trapped in a cave in Laos. An international rescue effort is underway to free the men.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said he told the country’s military to increase its takeover of Gaza as Hamas accuses Israel of “undermining” the ceasefire agreement. CNN’s Oren Liebermann reports.
An Austrian court on Thursday sentenced a 21-year-old who admitted planning a foiled Islamist attack on a Taylor Swift concert in Vienna in 2024 to 15 years in prison, finding him guilty of various terrorism-related offenses.
The Trump administration says it's setting up a "state-of-the-art facility” in Kenya for Americans who may have been exposed to the Ebola virus but who do not have symptoms.
Italy's Supreme Court has ruled that restaurant and hotel owners aren’t legally required to serve tap water after a tourist filed a lawsuit against a hotel who refused to provide it.
