International School of Geneva in Founex, 3 December 2021. (Keystone/Salvatore Di Nolfi)

🎒Ecolint supports international Geneva families. The International School of Geneva set up a solidarity fund for families affected by the USAid cuts, inviting parents to contribute their savings from a one per cent fee reduction that decided for September 2025.

🧐China turns to WTO for help settling dispute with US over Trump tariffs. Before ordering additional tariffs on US goods in retaliation for the US tariffs, Beijing asked the Geneva-based organisation for dispute consultations. Separately, the trade body is planning to hold informal consultations next week with concerned countries on the impact on the global trading system.

🗣‘Leaving sensitive tasks to machines is dangerous’: artificial intelligence worries UN interpreters. Interpreters working at the 2,500 conferences held every year at the Palais des Nations warn AI cannot translate diplomatic codes and nuances during live sessions.

🇨🇭Switzerland to cut UN development aid by CHF 13 million. Bern confirmed it will provide CHF 33.8 million this year, with most of it going to the UN Development Programme.

⛑️Trump administration says it cut funding to some life-saving UN food programmes by mistake. The US state department said it was rolling back some previously announced contract terminations that the World Food Programme described on Monday as “death sentence to millions”.