Here's what else is happening

• 🥊WHO a punching ball for US Republicans. While Donald Trump congratulated Kim Jong-un on North Korea's election to the executive board of the World Health Organization, the other contenders berated the former president and the Geneva-based agency.
  Le Temps (FR)
• 🇮🇷 Iranian labour groups call on ILO to kick Iran out of organisation. The groups said the Iranian regime’s policies have led to “widespread poverty” among workers and teachers, many of whom they said have been jailed for opposing the authorities.
  Radio Free Europe (EN)
• 🧴 Zero draft of plastics treaty expected within months. Countries gathered in Paris last week for plastics negotiations requested that a first version of the agreement be prepared for their next meeting in November.
  Health Policy Watch (EN)
• ⛓️ UN body condemns US, others for treatment of Guantanamo inmate. The working group on arbitrary detentions said a Saudi prisoner, accused of organising the bombing of a US navy vessel, has been “arbitrarily detained” for over 20 years.
  Reuters (EN)
• 🇷🇺 Russia’s dam-busting is another war crime. The additional protocols to the Geneva Conventions, adopted in 1977 stipulate that dams, dykes and similar energy infrastructure shall not be targeted by a military attack.
  Bloomberg (EN)