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World’s humanitarian system buckling, ‘no longer fit for purpose,’ US-based researchers say

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LONDON, England — From Sudan to Gaza, civilians are desperate, hospitals are under attack, and the humanitarian aid system cannot keep up, according to a new report in the Lancet medical journal.
«The humanitarian system is no longer fit for purpose, given the types of emergencies that we have and their magnitude,» report co-author Dr. Paul Spiegel told Fox News.
AS WORLD FIXATES ON OTHER WARS, SUDAN SEES 12 MILLION FORCIBLY DISPLACED IN DEVASTATING CONFLICT
Patients are seen in a room at the Saudi hospital in Omdurman, Sudan, on March 20, 2025, amid ongoing conflict that has disrupted most hospitals and schools in the capital and surrounding areas. (Ebrahim Hamid/AFP)
A professor at Johns Hopkins University and co-chair of its Center for Humanitarian Health, Spiegel has decades of experience working in refugee camps and war zones around the world. «I’ve been doing this for well over 30 years,» he said. «We’re in a very dark time.»
Highlighting one of the world’s largest disasters, Sudan’s brutal civil war — where tens of millions of people are in need as hospitals close and famine spreads — the panel of experts behind the report says the world knows how to save lives, but that the system is failing to deliver. The experts’ report, titled ‘Health in a World of Crises and Impunity,’ argues that some agencies are too bureaucratic, and others too slow. The whole system, they say, needs revamping.

Dr. Paul Spiegel, is a professor at Johns Hopkins University and co-chair of its Center for Humanitarian Health. (Paul Spiegel)
The report argues the United Nations is in need of reform, while in the U.S. it highlights the Trump Administration’s shuttering of the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) over suspected fraud and abuse.
During that restructuring, many of USAID’s most vital programs were folded into the State Department, but the report calls USAID’s closure a «shock» and «sudden,» and part of a chain of decisions in the U.S. and elsewhere which it condemns as «a political and moral failure.»
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A truck loaded with humanitarian aid for the Gaza Strip travels to the Kerem Shalom crossing at the Israel-Gaza border on May 20, 2025. (Maya Alleruzzo/AP)
«USAID needed to be restructured,» Spiegel told Fox News. «The U.N. needs to be restructured in a very significant way. But it’s how you do that.
«It is the strategy to make sure that you do it in such a way that vulnerable populations across the globe are not going to be hurt, and that it wasn’t done like that.»
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Dr. Paul Spiegel has decades of experience working in refugee camps and war zones around the world. (Paul Spiegel)
The authors are pushing for major global reforms, including overhauling funding, sending aid directly to local communities, greater accountability if governments or armed groups block aid, and upholding healthcare as a basic human right.
«It’s really a complete rebalancing,» Spiegel said, «to make sure that the system actually works for the people it’s intended to help.»
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Trans influencer breaks silence after Trump’s comparison to CNN anchor at WHCA Dinner

Trump delivers jokes and jabs at WCHA Dinner
President Donald Trump takes the stage at the White House Correspondents’ Dinner, delivering a series of sharp jokes and jabs. His remarks target figures including Robert F. Kennedy Jr., various late-night television hosts, and Rep. Adam Schiff, D-Calif. Fox News’ Christina Coleman provides a detailed report on the dinner’s memorable moments, highlighting Trump’s humorous and often critical commentary during the rescheduled event.
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A transgender influencer fired back at President Donald Trump after his joke comparing the biological male to CNN’s Kaitlan Collins during Friday night’s White House Correspondents’ Association (WHCA) Dinner went viral.
«Maybe being publicly mocked and criticized by this administration is actually like the greatest compliment of all,» said Dylan Mulvaney in a TikTok post on Sunday. «Because it puts me in the company of some of the most brilliant, empathetic people in our world today.»
Mulvaney, once a social media star and one of the most recognizable transgender people in the United States, has maintained a low profile over the past few years since an advertising debacle featuring the influencer tanked the stock of a major beer company.
Mulvaney referred to the Bud Light backlash as a kind of «mind game.» (ABC screenshot)
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But Mulvaney was thrust back into the spotlight after Trump’s WHCA Dinner joke comparing the transgender influencer to Collins, a longtime media foe of the 45th and 47th president.
«I thought Kaitlan Collins had really made it big with a major new sponsorship, but then I informed her that it wasn’t her on the Bud Light can, it was Dylan Mulvaney,» he said, referencing the beer brand’s failed marketing campaign.
In 2023, Bud Light partnered with Mulvaney for a March Madness promotion. On Instagram, Mulvaney posted a video featuring a Bud Light can with their face on it, sparking intense backlash, a prolonged boycott and a more than $27 billion loss in market cap for Anheuser-Busch.
«To the president, thank you for reminding me that I am more powerful than I even knew,» Mulvaney said in the Sunday video. «And to quote my favorite recording artist, Shea Diamond, ‘I am America.’»

CNN reporter Kaitlan Collins before the start of the press briefing with press secretary Karoline Leavitt at the White House in Washington, D.C., on Jan. 7, 2026. (Mandel Ngan/AFP via Getty Images)
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Trump took his time roasting Collins in his hour-and-four-minute remarks at the WHCA Dinner on Friday.
Besides comparing her to a biological male who transitioned to female in a TikTok series where they would chronicle every day of ‘becoming a girl,’ Trump also took a swipe at her apparently steely demeanor.
«I want to personally congratulate CNN’s Kaitlan Collins on receiving her award. It was all about me. It’s a fake. She shouldn’t get the award. It was a fake, but I didn’t mind. I said, ‘Kaitlan, congratulations.’ But it was fake. There’s no question about it,» Trump said.
Collins received the WHCA Award for Excellence in Presidential News Coverage Under Deadline Pressure for broadcast due to her reporting on the contentious Oval Office meeting between Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy and Trump in February 2025.
«But she’s a young, attractive woman,» Trump went on, adding, «She never smiles. I said, ‘Kaitlan, do you ever smile? Smile. You have a nice position. You’re at CNN — fake news. You should be a happy person. So smile, Kaitlan. Just smile.’»

President Donald Trump speaks during the rescheduled White House Correspondents’ Association Dinner on July 24, 2026, in Washington, D.C. (Getty Images)
Collins appeared to respond to Trump’s jokes at her expense in an Instagram post over the weekend featuring a quote from Eleanor Roosevelt.
«No one can make you feel inferior without your consent,» the quote said.
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CNN’s public relations team also posted a statement on X after Trump’s remarks about one of their biggest stars.
«We stand by our journalists and the integrity and fair mindedness with which the CNN team reports the news,» the statement, attributed to Chairman and CEO Mark Thompson, said.
«Honest, accurate journalism may sometimes irritate politicians, but our right to report and present that reporting to the public without government interference is fully protected by the U.S. Constitution. CNN will continue to exercise this right.»
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Brasil presentó un pedido de consultas contra EEUU ante la Organización Mundial del Comercio por los nuevos aranceles de Trump

Brasil presentó un pedido de consultas contra Estados Unidos ante la Organización Mundial del Comercio (OMC) por los nuevos aranceles impuestos a varios productos brasileños, en un paso que podría derivar en un proceso formal de solución de controversias.
El gobierno brasileño informó que la solicitud se presentó el 27 de julio dentro del mecanismo de resolución de disputas de la OMC. En un comunicado, la cancillería precisó que «Brasil presentó, el 27 de julio, pedido de consultas a Estados Unidos en el ámbito del sistema de solución de controversias de la OMC» porque «considera que las medidas estadounidenses son injustificadas e incompatibles» con las reglas del comercio internacional.
El pedido de consultas constituye la primera etapa del procedimiento previsto por la OMC antes de la eventual conformación de un panel que analice el caso si las partes no alcanzan un acuerdo.
El nuevo gravamen del 25%, anunciado la semana pasada por la administración Trump, surge de una investigación de la Oficina del Representante de Comercio de Estados Unidos (USTR), que concluyó que determinadas políticas brasileñas son «desleales» y perjudican a empresas estadounidenses.
Entre las prácticas cuestionadas figuran el sistema de pagos automáticos PIX, las barreras de acceso a mercados brasileños como los sectores automotriz y de combustibles, la gestión de la lucha contra la corrupción, la legislación sobre propiedad intelectual y la deforestación ilegal.
Se calcula que la nueva tarifa afectará al 18% de las exportaciones brasileñas hacia Estados Unidos, aunque algunas asociaciones comerciales estiman que el impacto podría alcanzar hasta un tercio del total. Los sectores más expuestos son máquinas industriales, azúcar, etanol, madera y calzado.
No obstante, Trump excluyó del arancel a unos 2.100 productos, entre ellos la carne, el café, el petróleo, las piezas para aviones, el zumo de naranja y las tierras raras, insumos considerados estratégicos para la industria estadounidense.
La administración de Donald Trump aplicó este mes dos nuevas rondas de aranceles contra productos brasileños. Una fija gravámenes del 25% por supuestas prácticas comerciales desleales y la otra establece un arancel adicional del 12,5% por el presunto uso de trabajo forzado.
El presidente brasileño Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva cuestionó esas medidas y sostuvo que responden a motivaciones políticas en un año electoral, cuando buscará la reelección dentro de menos de tres meses.
La disputa comercial se suma a un conflicto previo entre ambos países. En 2025, Brasil también recurrió a la OMC después de que Washington impusiera aranceles del 50% como represalia por el proceso judicial por golpismo que terminó con la condena del expresidente Jair Bolsonaro (2019-2022), padre del actual candidato presidencial Flávio Bolsonaro, principal rival de Lula en las elecciones de octubre.

Aquel primer paquete de sanciones comerciales se revirtió posteriormente en gran parte, aunque la relación bilateral volvió a tensarse tras la imposición de los nuevos gravámenes estadounidenses.
Lula también sostuvo que Flávio Bolsonaro, aliado político de Trump, impulsó la presión arancelaria de Washington durante la campaña electoral brasileña. El dirigente opositor rechazó esa acusación.
La tensión entre ambos gobiernos también alcanzó el plano diplomático. El sábado, Brasil negó las visas a dos funcionarios estadounidenses que pretendían reunirse con autoridades electorales brasileñas, después de que Flávio Bolsonaro cuestionara la fiabilidad del sistema de votación electrónica del país.
(Con información de EFE y AFP)
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