President Gianni Infantino and president Donald Trump present the trophy to Spain’s football team after the World Cup final match in East Rutherford, N.J., near New York, 19 July 2026. (AP Photo/Matt Rourke)

⚽Trump wants FIFA boss Gianni Infantino for UN secretary general following World Cup. The report follows controversy surrounding the World Cup and accusations of Infantino bowing to the White House leader’s wishes. Still, it is unclear if the Swiss-born football chief wants the job – and the pay cut that would come with it.

🇳🇮UN rights chief condemns Nicaragua move to end elections. Volker Türk warned about the deterioration of civil and political rights in the country after authoritarian president Daniel Ortega, whose term ends next year, vowed to keep political opponents from seeking power.

🚦World commits to cut traffic deaths – but US records lone vote against UN declaration. Washington rejected the widely supported declaration on road safety adopted in New York on Monday, arguing it was used to push for climate targets, which it opposes.

🥦Healthy diet too expensive for one in three people globally, UN report finds. Five agencies found that while global hunger levels dropped in 2025 for the third consecutive year, 2.69 billion people still can’t afford to meet their nutritional and energy needs.

🚔New York mayor Mamdani admits he can’t arrest ‘war criminal’ Netanyahu. After consulting with the city’s lawyers, he said they had no independent legal authority to enforce the ICC warrant if the Israeli leader attended the UN General Assembly in September, but that the federal government did.