A handout photo released by the Turkish Presidential Press Office shows Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan at the opening of an emergency Arab-Islamic summit in Doha on 15 September 2025, convened to discuss Israel’s attack on Qatar. (Keystone/EPA/Turkish)

💥UN Human Rights Council to hold urgent debate on Israeli airstrike on Qatar. The Geneva-based body will hold the discussion today at the request of Pakistan, on behalf of the Organisation of Islamic Cooperation, and Kuwait, on behalf of the Gulf Cooperation Council. The move follows an emergency meeting of Arab allies in Doha to coordinate a joint response.

⚰️EXCLUSIVE: Israel has killed nearly 3,000 Gaza aid seekers. An open-source database compiled by TNH reveals the scale of Israeli attacks on people seeking aid over the past 23 months, and which dramatically escalated with the introduction of militarised aid hubs in May.

🐠WTO fisheries subsidies agreement enters into force after two decades. On Monday, Brazil, Kenya, Tonga and Vietnam joined a 2022 trade agreement designed to help ocean fish stocks recover, pushing ratifications past the two-thirds threshold needed for it to take effect.

🇯🇵Japan and South Korea show enduring rift over sexual slavery issue in letters to UN. Tokyo rejected South Korean court orders for compensation as a violation of international law, in a letter responding to UN-backed experts who criticised Japan’s failure to ensure truth-finding and reparations for victims.

💶Swiss lower house backs government support for international Geneva. The National Council approved a spending ceiling of CHF122.6 million for 2026-2029 to support the country’s role as a host state for international organisations.