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Bill Gates to give away $311b, accuses Musk of killing children

London | Bill Gates pledged on Thursday (Friday AEST) to give away $US200 billion ($311 billion) via his charitable foundation by 2045 and lashed out at Elon Musk, accusing the world’s richest man of “killing the world’s poorest children” through huge cuts to the US foreign aid budget.

The 69-year-old billionaire co-founder of Microsoft said he was speeding up his plans to divest almost all of his fortune and would close the foundation n 2045, years earlier than previously planned.

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