It comes just days after the council announced the

Mrs Vardy appealed against the decision, but in a ruling on Thursday, High Court judge Mr Justice Cavanagh dismissed the appeal."The appeal must fail on the basis that the judge was entitled to reach the conclusion that he came to," he said.

A spokesman for Mrs Vardy said she felt "gratified" that the matter had been investigated but "disappointed" in the outcome."Now we just wish to move on and look to the future," they added.Mrs Vardy, the wife of Leicester City striker Jamie Vardy, mounted the original legal action after Mrs Rooney, the wife of former Manchester United striker Wayne Rooney, publicly accused someone using Mrs Vardy's Instagram account of leaking private information about her to the press.

Mrs Vardy sued her for libel, but Mrs Justice Steyn found in July 2022 that the allegation was "substantially true".The judge later ordered Mrs Vardy to pay 90% of Mrs Rooney's costs, including an initial payment of £800,000.

A previous hearing in London was told that Mrs Rooney's claimed legal bill - £1,833,906.89 - was more than three times her "agreed costs budget of £540,779.07".

Mrs Vardy's lawyer Jamie Carpenter KC argued that was "disproportionate".Pepfar was launched in 2003 by then US President George W Bush and its funding is distributed via the US government's main overseas aid agency USAID.

It has been regarded as a ground-breaking scheme that has enabled some of the world's poorest people to access anti-retroviral drugs (ARVs) and has saved more than 25 million lives worldwide.A 90-day freeze on US foreign aid payments instituted by President Donald Trump on his first day in office last month has already upended the global aid system.

In reaction to the raft of cuts, the head of the Africa Centres for Disease Control and Prevention (Africa CDC) issued a stark warning on Friday."I have to say that the world is playing with fire," Dr Jean Kaseya told the BBC.