New York | Johns Hopkins University, one of America’s leading centres of scientific research, said that it would eliminate more than 2000 workers in the US and abroad because of the Trump administration’s steep cuts, primarily to international aid programs.

The lay-offs, the most in the university’s history, will involve 247 domestic workers for the university, which is based in Baltimore, and an affiliated centre. Another 1975 positions will be cut in 44 countries. They affect the university’s Bloomberg School of Public Health, its medical school and an affiliated non-profit, Jhpiego.