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💰The loss and damage fund should open for business in 2025. Will it be fit for purpose? As of 3 December, the Fund for Responding to Loss and Damage has received $69 million out of $749 million pledged by wealthy nations to compensate climate-struck countries.
The New Humanitarian (EN)
🎙️Inside Geneva: how has the world changed in 2024? Correspondents covering international Geneva reflect on the highlights of the year, from US elections to wars and climate change, and how they stand to shake world politics in 2025.
Swissinfo (EN)
🇸🇾UN refugee chief urges patience as Syrian refugees weigh options. The fall of the Assad regime has prompted millions of Syrians displaced over more than a decade to consider returning home. Since Monday, several European countries, including Germany, France and Switzerland, have paused asylum-seeking applications from Syria.
The New York Times (EN)
🛂UN human rights office partly resumes activities in Venezuela. The local UN office was kicked out of the country nearly 10 months ago over its condemnation of the detention of human rights attorney Rocío San Miguel.
Reuters (EN)
🚢Global trade shows durability amid Red Sea, tariff threats. The World Trade Organization’s merchandise barometer showed little fluctuation amid attacks on cargo ships and a looming protectionist US administration.
BNN Bloomberg (EN)

Hello, this is Kasmira. As Syria's opposition forces begins appointing a transitional government, UN envoy Geir Pederson has called for the inclusion of all Syrians and cautioned that the country's future is still very much at stake.