Hi, this is Michelle. The president of the UN General Assembly is in Geneva for the Human Rights Council, warning of the severity of the UN’s financial crisis and urging those responsible to step up.
At the Conference on Disarmament, Washington aired its frustrations with China for quietly joining a nuclear arms race while everyone looked elsewhere. And David Stiefel, a former senior biodefence official in the Biden administration, argues that the Trump administration’s interest in the bioweapons convention may be the key to keeping it alive. |
Annalena Baerbock, president of the UN General Assembly, speaks to the media at he 61st session of the UN Human Rights ouncil in Geneva, 24 February 2026. Keystone/Salvatore Di Nolfi)
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Here's what else is happening
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☢️US sheds light on its allegation of Chinese nuclear test and urges nations to push for disarmament.
A US official told the UN Conference on Disarmament that the US-Russia New START treaty, whose recent expiration has prompted fears of nuclear escalation, had failed to account for Beijing's "unprecedented, deliberate, rapid and opaque nuclear weapons buildup".
Associated Press (EN)
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🤖UN tech envoy talks AI governance and the private sector.
Amandeep Singh Gill says the UN’s new scientific panel on AI and India’s AI Impact Summit can help shift power and opportunity toward the global south.
Devex (EN)
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📸UN chief joins Swiss foreign minister to inaugurate Geneva's future Nations Portal.
António Guterres and Ignazio Cassis launched the visitors’ centre built next to the Palais des Nations, after several years of delay. The centre, funded by Ivan Pictet, is expected to welcome 180,000 visitors every year.
Keystone-SDA (FR)
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⚔️Iranians worry over American military buildup as next, last-chance round of talks with the US nears.
Many Iranians are fretting over war breaking out if negotiations in Geneva this Thursday fail to produce a deal, as the US amasses its largest military power in decades in the Middle East.
Associated Press via Washington Post (EN)
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