UNAids and the World Health Organization buildings in Geneva. (Keystone/AP Photo/Jamey Keaten, File)

🇨🇭Switzerland to slash funding for UN agencies. The Swiss government is pulling the plug on funding for several UN agencies while cutting back on others in 2025, with UNAids and Unesco among the biggest losers.

🧳Scoop: UN migration agency freezes US resettlement activities. Up to 5,000 employees at the International Organization for Migration in Geneva risk losing their jobs, according to internal sources.

✂️Exclusive: UN aid agencies cut back operations after Trump’s 90-day funding suspension. Filippo Grandi, the head of the UN’s refugee agency, has imposed cost-cutting measures, including a 90-day pause on new supply orders, except for emergencies, a freeze on hiring and contracts, and a ban on international air travel.

💰US exempts ‘life-saving’ projects from stop-work order – but widespread confusion continues. The waiver follows a global outcry over HIV clinics providing antiretroviral medicine and other services being told to immediately cease operations over the past few weeks.

🛠️International Geneva will have to renvent itself, says Fondation pour Genève director. Fabrice Eggly said the US's retreat from the World Health Organization and halt in funding to international aid was "a turning point in history".

🥩Trump’s beef with the World Health Organization is personal. The US leader has repeatedly accused the UN health chief, Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, of siding with China.