Surface air temperature forecasts for the season spanning November 2022 to January 2024, in relation to 1993 to 2009 baseline period. (World Meteorological Organization)

🫠El Nino to last until April 2024, pushing record temperatures. WMO said there are high chances that the naturally-occurring event will continue through the northern hemisphere winter.

🧑‍⚕️Red Cross says humanitarian convoy came under fire in Gaza City. Vehicles were delivering supplies to a hospital when hit, before accompanying ambulances with acutely wounded patients to the Egyptian border.

🏚️Massive destruction of Gaza housing a war crime: UN expert. The special rapporteur on adequate housing said the bombing of homes was prohibited under international humanitarian law.

🇸🇩Conflict in Sudan growing in scope, brutality as world remains silent. A senior UN refugee official warned Tuesday that "an unimaginable humanitarian crisis" was unfolding in the war-torn country.

🏭 ‘Insanity’: petrostates planning huge expansion of fossil fuels, says UN report. Plans by nations including Saudi Arabia, the US and UAE would blow climate targets and ‘throw humanity’s future into question’.

💸UN push for financial system reform to help poorest countries. Its trade body for a significant overhaul of the global financial system to help the world's poorest countries and their struggle to fill “enormous financial gaps”.