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💻Eighty nations strike deal over e-commerce, but lack US backing. The agreement, negotiated at the World Trade Organization, calls for a permanent ban on tariffs on electronic transactions, recognition of e-signatures and protection against spam. The US remains a holdout due to the lack of exceptions for national security interests.

💉Four million vaccine doses for children and pregnant women flown to North Korea. The jabs for hepatitis B, polio, measles and tetanus provided by Unicef, the World Health Organization and the vaccine alliance Gavi represent the first medical aid delivery to the authoritarian country since Covid-19.

🏃🏾‍♀️Refugee athletes want more of them to compete at the Olympics as migration takes global focus. Created at the Rio de Janeiro Olympics in 2016 as a collaboration between the International Olympic Committee and UN Refugee Agency, the refugee team is made up of dozens of athletes who have fled their countries and who are competing in Paris this year.

👔Meet the candidates for WHO's top job in Africa. Four men have thrown their hats in the ring to become the UN health agency's director general in Africa at a secret ballot vote next month.

🐦Drugmaker Sinergium to share bird flu vaccine data globally, says WHO. The Argentine biopharmaceutical firm, which is developing mRNA vaccines against the H5N1 virus, promised to share its findings with the mRNA technology transfer hub programme set up by the WHO to help poorer countries respond to future pandemics.