President Donald Trump's move to cut most of the US funding towards foreign humanitarian aid could cause more than 14 million additional deaths by 2030, according to research published in The Lancet medical journal. A third of those at risk of premature deaths were children, researchers projected.

More than 14 million of the world's most vulnerable people, a third of them small children, could die by 2030 because of the Trump administration's dismantling of US foreign aid, research projected on Tuesday.

Trump’s massive US foreign aid cuts could cause over 14 million preventable deaths by 2030, including 4.5 million children, warns a new Lancet study, threatening decades of global health progress.