After chaos of US cuts, aid chiefs urge world leaders at UN to step up

UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) -United Nations aid chief Tom Fletcher hopes the world body will fight back against a "sustained attack" on its values and finances next week at an annual gathering of world leaders, and said humanitarians could not afford to wait for the U.S. to restore funding. Aid worker killings rose nearly a third to almost 400 last year, the most deadly year since records began in 1997, according to U.N. data. Then in January, U.S. President Donald Trump returned to power and slashed U.S. foreign aid, sparking global humanitarian chaos.