Here’s what else has happened

• 🔎‘For Your Eyes Only’: Israel’s Mole Inside the United Nations. Leaked email exchanges reveal that the director of Unicef’s Washington office, Yahar Lichner, shared confidential documents and briefings with Israeli diplomats when he worked with the UNFPA.
  Drop Site (EN)
• 🗳️First WHO regional director takes leave to run for director general. Hanan Balkhy, the organisation’s Middle East chief, announced her run as others including Latin American regional arm director Jarbas Barbosa pulled out of the race, and WHO chief scientist Jeremy Farrar said he had “no intention” of running.
  Health Policy Watch (EN)
• 🇨🇺UN experts condemn latest US measures against Cuba, urge lifting of sanctions. Human rights experts urged Washington to lift sanctions on the island, saying its consequences are threatening the right to health, food and development.
  Anadolu Agency (EN)
• 💰Exclusive: US withholds dues to UN, again. The US was preparing to settle $800 million out of several billion it owes. But some UN officials suspect the plans were put on hold over the reappointment of Volker Türk as UN human rights chief.
  Devex (EN)
• 🤖2027 AI summit budget set, content still to be decided. Switzerland’s CHF5.4 million budget for the summit, a fraction of what was provided by previous host countries, has come under fire. But the founder of Geneva AI Governance Institute argues that what matters is that concrete proposals are brought to the table next year.
  Bilan (FR)