A cow photographed during a traditional alpine cattle drive in Urnaesch, Switzerland, on 19 May, 2026. (Keystone/Gian Ehrenzeller).

💊Antibiotics use in livestock could rise by a third in next 15 years, UN report warns. New global estimates forecast potentially disastrous impacts on human resistance to essential medicines as a result of increased antibiotic use in animals bred for meat.

🕊️UN chief proposes options to help end Israel-Hezbollah conflict after peacekeepers leave Lebanon. His proposals to the Security Council come after the UN body last year voted unanimously to terminate the peacekeeping mission known as UNFIL and asked Guterres to present options for implementing a 2006 resolution that included the disarming of Hezbollah and withdrawal of Israeli forces from the country.

🇺🇳ICYMI: Interview with UN SG candidate María Fernanda Espinosa. The Ecuadorian diplomat and former president of the UN General Assembly, who recently entered the race, said she saw a chance to offer something the other candidates lacked: navigating turbulent waters among member states.

🔍WHO: sharp decline in suspected Ebola cases as numbers are refined. The World Health Organization’s estimate of suspected, but as yet unconfirmed, cases of the deadly Ebola Bundibugyo virus has sharply declined from over 1000 a week ago to just 116 today. That doesn’t mean that the tide has yet turned on the outbreak, it cautioned.