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Trump’s USAID closure a ‘travesty’ 

SUMMARY: Barack Obama and George W. Bush have criticized the closure of the US Agency for International Development (USAID), as a study warned it could result in “a staggering number” of avoidable deaths—more than 14 million over five years. The former U.S. presidents made rare public criticisms of the Trump administration as they took part […]