Brazil's president Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva, gestures as he speaks with Germany's Chancellor Friedrich Merz and IMF managing director Kristalina Georgieva, ahead of a working session at the G7 summit, in Evian-les-Bains, 17 June 2026. (Keystone/Mandel Ngan/Pool Photo via AP)

🃏Global south leaders play their cards at G7 summit. The leaders of Brazil, India and Kenya met with the G7 in Evian as the western bloc seeks to counter China’s sprawling economic influence and presents its new narrative on development aid.

✅Mission accomplished for Macron: Europe puts Trump back on its Ukrainian agenda. The G7 summit allowed Europeans to bring the United States into a more favourable position regarding Ukraine. In return, Washington's partners unequivocally welcomed the memorandum of understanding announced with Iran.

🇺🇳The latest candidate to lead the UN suggests creating a crisis-prevention hub. Interviewed on Monday by General Assembly member states, Ecuadorian diplomat María Fernanda Espinosa said it would ensure a timely response to humanitarian crises, terrorism, energy shocks, food insecurity and inflation.

🦠Countries differ on discharge criteria for Andes hantavirus patients. A meeting convened at the WHO on Tuesday found that Dutch, Spanish and Swiss medical experts applied slightly different criteria for discharging patients during the recent outbreak on a cruise ship – but none required a negative blood test, as this could remain positive “for months”.

⚖️ Diplomats and abuse – chipping at the shield of immunity. Recent court rulings in the UK and Switzerland have spelt good news for domestic workers mistreated by diplomats but often denied justice due to their abusers enjoying diplomatic immunity.

🇬🇭Ghana to advance reparatory justice at first major gathering since landmark UN resolution. The three-day event in Accra, gathering heads of states and delegates from 80 countries, comes after the UN General Assembly in March declared the trafficking of enslaved Africans as the gravest crime against humanity.