States clashed over how to cover for the US funding shortfall at the WHO's executive board meeting from last week. (Keystone/Salvatore Di Nolfi)

💸Nations mull over WHO’s future without US dollars. As the UN health agency prepares to lose its biggest benefactor, states are reluctant to step up.

†Migrants' bodies in Libya mass graves had gunshot wounds, IOM says. Two graves containing the bodies of dozens of migrants were uncovered during a police raid targeting traffickers. The International Organization for Migration said it was shocked by the discovery.

👨‍🦽US decision to cut ties with WHO hurting polio eradication efforts. The halt in engagement from the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and the US Agency for International Development has caused delays and increased costs for initiatives involved.

🇵🇸Trump’s plan for ‘ethnic cleansing’ in Gaza is illegal, says UN investigator. Navi Pillay, head of the UN Commission of Inquiry on the Occupied Palestinian Territory, condemned US sanctions on the International Criminal Court over its arrest warrant against Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu for war crimes.

💼Thousands of jobs at risk at the UN. Ian Richard, executive secretary of the Coordinating Council of UN Staff Associations, says the US aid freeze has left many organisations in a quandary – whether to continue their projects in the hope of a return to normal or anticipate a bleaker outcome and proceed with layoffs?