A display advocating for Taiwan's inclusion in the World Heath Assembly ahead of the annual meeting in May 2023. (Geneva Solutions/Michelle Langrand)

⛔China says it won't allow Taiwan to attend WHO's annual assembly. Taiwan, which has been blocked from participating since 2017, said it would send a delegation anyway for meetings outside the actual event.

💰Norway puts UN project funding on hold raising fears for plastics treaty talks. The Nordic country, which has been the largest overall donor to Unep in recent years, informed the agency's director general Inger Andersen the week before last that it was freezing all funding agreements before its revised budget, scheduled for today.

🪩How Israel turned Eurovision’s stage into a soft power tool. Israel’s efforts to influence votes were broader and started years earlier than previously known, reports the US media in this investigation.

🇨🇭🇫🇷Swiss, French ministers meet in Geneva to discuss G7 summit. Swiss foreign minister Ignazio Cassis and his French counterpart Jean-Noël Barrot discussed fears of disruptions among the general population, especially in Geneva, where protests against the G8 summit in 2003 led to riots and clashes with the police.

😷Two more passengers evacuated from cruise ship test positive for hantavirus. A French woman who began showing symptoms as she was flown to Paris and another passenger evacuated to Nebraska in the United States tested positive for the deadly virus.