A Palestinian doctor at the site of the destroyed building of Al Ahli Baptist hospital following an Israeli air strike in Gaza City, 13 April 2025. (Keystone/EPA/Mohammed Saber)

🏥‘Horrific trauma patients’: WHO details harrowing scenes from Gaza. Israeli bombardments continued as the UN agency delivered essential medical supplies to one of the few remaining hospitals in the Strip, a WHO official said.

🏡Geneva housing crisis to persist despite international job cuts. Speaking on the sidelines of a UN conference on housing affordability, the head of Switzerland's housing office said demand remains very high. Switzerland ranks sixth among countries with the heaviest housing cost burden.

🪨What will become of the rocks excavated to build the next collider? Cern is considering using a fourth of 6.3 million cubic metres of matter dug up to regenerate soils.

🚢WTO says AI-related buying binge and spike in US imports spur unexpected rise in goods trade. The 2.4 per cent rise in trade forecasted for this year is expected to precede a 0.5 per cent growth rate in 2026.

🛰️The global battle for connectivity: satellites, AI and the ITU’s mission in a divided world. The secretary general of the International Telecommunication Union, Doreen Bogdan-Martin, discusses some of the current issues that the organisation is engaged in.

📉The mood inside UNRWA as workers fear financial collapse. Philippe Lazzarini, the head of the UN agency for Palestinian refugees, “implored” countries at the UN General Assembly for financial assistance following the publication of a UN80 reform report questioning its survival.