President Donald Trump has formally withdrawn the United States from the World Health Organization (WHO), which it accuses of having mismanaged the coronavirus pandemic, an American senator announced on Tuesday.
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" Congress has received notification that the president has officially removed the United States from WHO in the midst of a pandemic, " Robert Menendez, a Democratic member of the Senate Foreign Affairs Committee, wrote on Twitter.