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Hi, this is Paula. A former Swiss foreign minister warns of the impact of Trump's global policies on Geneva and multilateralism, albeit remaining confident that international organisations will endure.

UN human rights experts react to the arrest of a Palestinian journalist in Zurich, and dozens are killed in an attack on the last functioning hospital in Sudan's besieged city of El Fasher.

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Paula Dupraz-Dobias

28.01.2025


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Former Swiss President Micheline Calmy-Rey, pictured on 6 November 2024 on the set of the Leman Bleu television in Geneva, Switzerland. (Keystone/Salvatore Di Nolfi)

🔄International Geneva ‘needs reform’: ex-Swiss foreign minister. Interviewed by Swiss broadcaster RTS, former Swiss president Micheline Calmy-Rey called for reform to counter an expected negative “impact on the region's economy” and “the functioning of organisations” in Geneva.

Swissinfo (EN)

⛓️UN experts slam arrest of Palestinian journalist in Switzerland. Irene Khan, UN special rapporteur on freedom of opinion and expression, joined other experts and activists in condemning the arrest on Sunday of Electronic Intifada media founder Ali Abunimah and calling for his release.

Al Jazeera (EN)

🏥About 70 people killed in attack on hospital in Sudan’s Darfur region, WHO chief says. The drone attack on the only functional hospital in the besieged city of El Fasher comes amid a continued escalation in the country’s civil war, which has killed tens of thousands of people since April 2013.

Associated Press (EN)

🍞‘Just bread and tea’: WFP says aid cuts to Afghanistan leave millions hungry this winter. Hsiao-Wei Lee, the head of the World Food Programme in Afghanistan warned the agency will only be able to feed half of the millions of Afghans in need, after cuts in international aid and an impending freeze in US foreign funding.

Reuters (EN)

🌍Comfort Ero, conflict expert: ‘We are witnessing the return of spheres of influence. Trump is not the cause, but the symptom’. Speaking in Davos, the president and chief executive of the International Crisis Group, a leading organisation dedicated to preventing and resolving conflicts, depicts shifting world order where countries are increasingly trying to assert their own national interests.

El País (EN)

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