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• 🗽Mike Waltz pledges to make UN ‘great again’ at Senate confirmation hearing. The former national security adviser, ousted over a group chat security leak, appeared yesterday before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, following months of waiting for the appointment of a US representative to the world body.
  Associated Press (EN)
• 🔎UN-backed team focusing on human rights in Palestinian areas announces resignations. Navi Pillay, a former UN human rights chief who has led the commission for the last four years, said in a letter she was stepping down on 3 November due to “age, medical issues and the weight of several other commitments”.
  Associated Press (EN)
• 🧸One in 10 children screened in UNRWA clinics are malnourished, UN Palestinian refugee agency says. The agency, which has screened more than 240,000 boys and girls under five in its Gaza clinics since 2024, said acute malnutrition was rarely seen before.
  Reuters (EN)
• 💸Switzerland signs controversial reconstruction aid package for Ukraine. Critics of a bilateral agreement signed last week for Swiss private sector involvement say Bern is diverting funds from international cooperation and assistance, following deep cuts to the foreign aid budget.
  Swissinfo (EN)
• 💉Global immunisation rate steady at 85 per cent – but coverage gaps propel outbreaks of measles and other diseases. In 2024, about 14 million children didn’t receive any doses of the DTP-containing vaccine – the global marker for routine childhood immunisation coverage, according to the WHO.
  Health Policy Watch (EN)