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In this image taken from video, Anil Soni, CEO of the WHO Foundation, speaks in an interview conducted on Zoom from Geneva, Switzerland, on Monday, May 15, 2023. Nearly 40% of the money raised by the WHO Foundation in its first two years came from anonymous sources, according to reports released by the foundation. Some global health practitioners worry the anonymous gifts make it harder to spot potential conflicts of interest. (AP Photo/Thalia Beaty)

Undue influence? Anonymous donations to World Health Organization’s new foundation raise concerns

By Thalia Beaty - Associated Press

Municipal workers disinfect dead pelicans on San Pedro beach in Lima, Peru, on Dec. 1, 2022. The World Health Organization said more than two dozen cats have been infected with bird flu across Poland, but no people appeared to have been sickened. In a statement on Monday, July 17, 2023, the U.N. health agency said it was the first time so many cats had been reported to have bird flu over such a wide geographical area in a single country, amid an unprecedented global outbreak of the latest version of the H5N1 version of the disease. (AP Photo/Guadalupe Pardo, File)

Dozens of cats in Poland had bird flu, but the risk to people is low, the U.N. health agency says

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A bottle of soda is photographed in Washington Thursday, Jan. 23, 2014. On Thursday, July 13, 2023, the International Agency for Research on Cancer, the cancer research arm of the World Health Organization, deemed aspartame, the world’s most widely used artificial sweetener, to be “possibly carcinogenic” to humans. Separately, a U.N. expert group assessing the same evidence said their guidance regarding safe consumption of the sweetener remained unchanged. (AP Photo/J. David Ake, File)

Soda sweetener aspartame now listed as possible cancer cause. But it’s still considered safe

By Maria Cheng and Jonel Aleccia - Associated Press

Illustration on child sexualization and the United Nations by Greg Groesch/ The Washington Times

United Nations normalizing pedophilia through child sexualization agenda

By Sheri Few

A man crosses Broad Street past a hazy City Hall, June 7, 2023, in Philadelphia. Thick, smoky air from Canadian wildfires made for days of misery in New York City and across the U.S. Northeast this week. But for much of the rest of the world, breathing dangerously polluted air is an inescapable fact of life — and death. (AP Photo/Matt Slocum, File)

For many cities around the world, bad air an inescapable part of life

By Suman Naishadham - Associated Press

Illustration on COVID-19 pandemic policy by Linas Garsys/The Washington Times

Preparations for pandemic should include refraining from funding one

By Editorial Board - The Washington Times

The World Health Organization (WHO), not trusted Illustration by Greg Groesch/The Washington Times

World Health Organization has gone rogue, should not be taken seriously

By Martin Cullip

People enjoy drinks and snacks in the evening sun on a terrace overlooking Stockholm, on Tuesday, May 30, 2023. Smoking is prohibited in both indoor and outdoor areas of bars and restaurants in Sweden, which has the lowest share of smokers in the European Union. (AP Photo/Karl Ritter)

Sweden close to becoming first ‘smoke free’ country in Europe as daily use of cigarettes dwindles

By Karl Ritter and Charlene Pele - Associated Press

Get out of WHO

South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol, center, speaks during a meeting of the Central Disaster and Safety Countermeasures Headquarters about measures to deal with the coronavirus pandemic at the presidential office in Seoul, South Korea, Thursday, May 11, 2023. South Korea will drop its COVID-19 quarantine requirements and end testing recommendations for international arrivals starting next month after the World Health Organization declared the end of the global health emergency. (Yonhap via AP)

South Korea to lift quarantine mandate for COVID-19 and end testing recommendation for travelers

By Kim Tong-Hyung - Associated Press

A health professional shows doses of Monkeypox vaccines at the Edison municipal vaccination centre in Paris Wednesday July 27, 2022. The World Health Organization says the global outbreak of mpox, which initially baffled experts when the smallpox-related disease spread to more than 100 countries last year, is no longer an international emergency, after a dramatic drop in cases in recent months. (Alain Jocard, Pool via AP, File)

Mpox no longer a global emergency, WHO says

By Maria Cheng - Associated Press

Commuters wearing face masks ride bicycles along a street in the central business district in Beijing, Thursday, Oct. 20, 2022. The World Health Organization downgraded its assessment of the coronavirus pandemic on Friday, May 5, 2023, saying it no longer qualifies as a global emergency. (AP Photo/Mark Schiefelbein) **FILE**

WHO says COVID emergency is over. So what does that mean?

By Maria Cheng - Associated Press

A worker wearing a protective suit swabs a man's throat for a COVID-19 test at a coronavirus testing site in Beijing, on June 22, 2022. The World Health Organization said Friday, May 5, 2023, that COVID-19 no longer qualifies as a global emergency, marking a symbolic end to the devastating coronavirus pandemic that triggered once-unthinkable lockdowns, upended economies and killed millions of people worldwide. (AP Photo/Mark Schiefelbein) **FILE**

WHO downgrades COVID pandemic, says it’s no longer emergency

By Maria Cheng and Jamey Keaten - Associated Press

WHO’s ‘health equity’ will kill American liberty

By Cheryl K. Chumley - The Washington Times

WHO fires scientist who led COVID search over sex misconduct

By Jamey Keaten - Associated Press

This image shows part of an election-style campaign brochure produced by the World Health Organization in September 2022, to promote Fijian Dr. Temo Waqanivalu to become WHO’s top official in the western Pacific. Internal documents obtained by the Associated Press show the World Health Organization knew of past sexual misconduct charges against a doctor who was accused of harassing a woman in the fall. (AP Photo)

WHO fires doctor after findings of sexual misconduct

By Jamey Keaten - Associated Press

An Egyptian fruit bat hangs upside down in its cage, in Winsted, Conn, July 29, 2003. The World Health Organization said Equatorial Guinea has confirmed its first-ever outbreak of Marburg disease, saying the Ebola-related virus is responsible for at least nine deaths in the tiny Western African country. (AP Photo/Bob Child, File)

Twin Marburg virus outbreaks in Africa have global community on guard against further spread

By Tom Howell Jr. - The Washington Times

FILE - In this file photo dated Sunday, Jan. 31, 2021, security personnel clear the way for a convoy of the World Health Organization team to enter the Huanan Seafood Market on the third day of field visit in Wuhan in central China's Hubei province. International scientists have examined previously unavailable genetic data from samples collected at a market in China close to where the first human cases of COVID-19 were detected and said they have found suggestions the pandemic originated from animals, not a lab. (AP Photo/Ng Han Guan, File)

New COVID origins data point to raccoon dogs in China market

By Dake Kang and Maria Cheng - Associated Press

Rescuers and mother surround Adnan Mohammet Korkut after he was rescued in Gaziantep, southern Turkey, early Friday, Feb. 10, 2023. The teenager was pulled largely unscathed from beneath the rubble of a collapsed building in the Turkish city of Gaziantep early Friday, in a dramatic rescue that belied the reality that the chances of finding many more survivors four days after a catastrophic earthquake killed tens of thousands are shrinking fast. (IHA via AP)

Live Updates I Focus turns to quake aid, as rescues continue

By The Associated Press - Associated Press

Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, director-general of the World Health Organization (WHO), delivers his speech after his reelection, during the 75th World Health Assembly at the European headquarters of the United Nations in Geneva, Switzerland, on May 24, 2022. (Salvatore Di Nolfi/Keystone via AP, File)

WHO: Risk of avian flu in humans is low — but might not stay that way

By Tom Howell Jr. - The Washington Times