Trucks of humanitarian aid bound for the Gaza Strip cross at the Rafah border crossing between the Gaza Strip and Egypt, in Rafah, Egypt, 19 January 2024. (Keystone/ EPA/Mohamed Hossam)

🚚UN chief says 630 aid trucks entered Gaza on first day of ceasefire. Secretary general António Guterres told the Security Council that at least 300 of those trucks went to the enclave's north, where the UN warns famine looms.

🤑Billionaires’ wealth soared in 2024, anti-poverty group says as the elites gather at Davos. Billionaires’ wealth grew three times faster in 2024 than the year before, according to Oxfam International’s annual assessment of global inequality released to coincide with the launch of the World Economic Forum.

🎲Fear and loathing in Davos: EU frets about its lose-lose choice between Trump’s US and Xi’s China. Between Donald Trump’s tariff threats and their China-reliant economies, European countries have plenty to worry about this year, as their governments face political and economic turmoil at home.

✉️European Union launches new WTO proceedings against China. The EU accuses China of "pressuring" European high-tech companies to lower patent prices, particularly in the field of 5G for mobile phones, describing its practices as “unfair” and “illegal”.

⛓️‘It was almost a relief when someone died’: former prisoners on the torture and terror of Eritrea’s secret prisons. Those who have escaped one of the world’s most repressive states give a rare glimpse into their horrific ordeal in the country’s vast gulag system, which UN special rapporteur Mohamed Abdelsalam Babiker denounces as “designed to spread terror”.

🌎Opinion: Fight for the climate, fight for our rights. International Geneva has effective mechanisms to integrate a crucial human rights perspective into the fight against climate change, writes João Rebelo, programme manager at Geneva NGO UPR Info.