WEF founder Klaus Schwab and co-founder and wife Hilde Schwab at a meeting on the Ukraine peace formula in Davos on 14 January 2024. (Keystone/Gian Ehrenzeller)

🔎WEF probe into ousted founder reveals questionable spending and interference in reports. Early findings from an internal probe indicate that Klaus Schwab may have tampered with country rankings. His wife is said to have billed travel expenses through the WEF, despite holding no official title. Schwab rejected the findings.

💵'When money is tight, you either give up or go for the essentials!' Martine Brunschwig Graf is taking the helm of a new foundation set up by the Canton of Geneva and the Wilsdorf Foundation to provide financial aid to the ailing international sector. The foundation will unveil its application criteria in early August.

🤔The WHO has to close a billion-dollar gap. Can private funding help? As the World Health Organization scrambles to finance its 2026 budget, private funding appears to be an appealing solutions, but it raises questions of transparency and vested interests.

🌳High stakes and uncertain plans as Brazil's Amazonian Cop30 approaches. Brazil is gearing up to host the UN's flagship climate summit. But the lead-up has been chaotic, with confusion over logistics and accommodation, and a still-unclear policy agenda.

🧕UN concerned by Taliban’s arrest of Afghan women and girls for dress code violations. “Numerous” women and girls were arrested in Kabul between July 16 and 19, allegedly for not wearing the hijab properly, according to the UN mission in Afghanistan, which urged the Taliban to rescind its laws and practices depriving women and girls of their fundamental freedoms.