In the latest blow to U.N. efforts to raise $400 million dollars from member states to provide assistance to the Haitian victims of cholera, the Trump administration is expected to not contribute to the effort, according to U.S. and U.N. officials. (Foreign Policy)

A huge suicide bomb ripped through a secure area of Kabul at the height of the Wednesday morning rush hour, killing at least 90 people and wounding 400, Afghan officials said. (CNN)

A quarter of Yemen’s people are on the brink of famine, parents are marrying off young daughters so someone else can care for them and cholera cases are escalating, U.N. officials warned on Tuesday as they work to avert a Saudi-led attack on a key port. (Reuters)

The Canadian government announced it will match donations made by Canadians to registered charities to create a famine relief fund for more than 20 million men, women and children who are at risk of starvation. (Toronto Star)

Recent attacks by Christian militias in Central African Republic’s border town of Bangassou have driven about 2,750 people into the Congo’s Bas-Uele, raising the risk that the Ebola outbreak could spread across the border, a WHO representative said. (TRF)

Taiwan’s top judges have ruled in favor of gay marriage, paving the way for it to become the first place in Asia to legalize same-sex unions. The highest court ruled that current laws preventing members of the same sex from marrying violated their right to equality and were unconstitutional. (BBC)

The White House is proposing a State Department budget that would make deep cuts in long-term development aid, humanitarian food assistance and peacekeeping missions around the world. The detailed budget unveiled Tuesday also proposes eliminating all funding for climate-change programs and for two prominent institutions in Washington. (WaPo)

The governing body of the WHO will make its final selection today on who will replace Margaret Chan as the director general. Today, the three candidates — David Nabarro of the U.K., Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus of Ethiopia, and Sania Nishtar of Pakistan — make their final pitch at the World Health Assembly, the U.N. organization’s major annual meeting.

A German aid worker and an Afghan guard were killed in and a Finnish national was abducted from a house in Kabul, an Afghan interior ministry spokesman has said. The three were working for a Swedish aid group called Operation Mercy, spokesman Najib Danish said. (Reuters)

The number of suspected cases of Ebola has risen to 18 from nine in less than a week in an isolated part of Democratic Republic of Congo, where three have died from the disease since April 22, the WHO said. (NY Times)