WHO headquarters in Geneva. (Thorkild Tylleskar/Wikipedia)

🗳️ Exclusive: Spain to nominate María Neira as candidate for WHO director general Spain's nomination of Neira, the WHO's former director for environment, climate change and health, comes after a coalition representing over 100 civil society groups had petitioned the government to support her candidacy.

⛔Exclusive: Standoff with Trump administration sidelines UN refugee agency deputy, sources say. Washington is refusing to work with Tressa Rae Finerty, an American who took the role of deputy high commissioner at UNHCR earlier this month, in what many sources see as a retaliatory response for not picking its preferred candidate.

🤝🏽Opinion: Multilateralism is not idealism, it is a necessity. At a summit called Partners for Multilateralism, held on the sidelines of the UN General Assembly on Monday, a diverse group of countries, including Brazil, Barbados, Canada and the European Union, pledged to support reform of the UN and other multilateral institutions and strengthen cooperation between regional organisations.

⛑️International cuts to development aid foreshadow profound changes to the system: ‘We are terrified of going back to the 1980s’. Former International Trade Centre chief Arancha González Laya calls for change in the sector as assistance becomes more transactional, less dependent and more complex.

🌍COP31 will be about making promises reality, says former COP chief. Alok Sharma, who was president of the UN climate change conference in 2021, says the next UN secretary-general will need to figure out how to bring more funds into climate finance and make sure they flow to where they're most needed.

🤖UN General Assembly: What did world leaders say about AI? World leaders warned this week about everything from autonomous weapons and disinformation to concentrated technological power and job disruption. But little consensus emerged over what should come next.

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❝Maritime power: the future of the global order will, in large part, be decided at sea. Maritime dominance has enabled European powers, and later the collective West, to shape the rules of the international order. Its loss would not create a leadership vacuum so much as an increasingly illiberal order shaped by China’s growing power and preferences, writes Basil Germond, professor of international security at the University of Lancaster in the United Kingdom. This is part of a series we're publishing this week in collaboration with Le Temps.