The United States will exit the World Health Organization, President Donald Trump said on Monday, saying the global health agency had mishandled the COVID-19 pandemic and other international health crises.

President Trump has signed an executive order​ beginning the process of withdrawing the U.S. from the World Health Organization.

President Donald Trump signed an executive order Monday night withdrawing the U.S. from the World Health Organization.

NEW YORK (Reuters) - The United States will exit the World Health Organization, President Donald Trump said on Monday, saying the global health agency had mishandled the COVID-19 pandemic and other international health crises.

President Trump signed an executive order withdrawing the US from the World Health Organization, citing unfair funding and criticizing its COVID-19 response.

The move means the US will leave WHO in 12 months’ time and stop all financial contributions to its work. Read more at straitstimes.com.

Among President Trump’s flurry of executive orders was one reviving a pandemic-era pledge: to withdraw the U.S. from the World Health Organization. Trump signed an order in the Oval Office to withdraw the U.

President Donald Trump is pulling the U.S. out of the World Health Organization for a second time, the White House announced late Monday. The day-one executive order fulfills Trump's campaign promise to reject global institutions.

President Donald Trump has signed an executive order directing the US to withdraw from the World Health Organization, a decision that would cut off one of the international aid and disease response group’s largest funding sources.