UN chief António Guterresat the opening ceremony of the Global Dialogue on AI Governance, at Palexpo, in Geneva 6 July 2026. (Keystone/Salvatore Di Nolfi)

🤖UN’s Guterres warns AI outpacing oversight, urges global rules to protect children. Delegates will discuss a report by a group of scientific experts that warns of the risks that could emerge as it evolves.

🦠Africa asserts itself as Pandemic Agreement talks resume. After negotiating as a bloc during the recent at the UN high-level meeting on HIV/Aids, the regional group maintains that the terms “on mutually agreed terms” for technology transfer, preferred by pharma-leading countries, would undermine access to vaccines and other medicines and to research and development.

🕋These five charts explain why nobody wants a data centre next door. A UN report predicts that artificial intelligence could use as much water as 1.3 million people, and consume electricity equivalent to the annual consumption of Pakistan, Bangladesh and Nigeria.

🇸🇩UN rights council orders urgent Sudan al-Obeid inquiry. The resolution, led by the United Kingdom, condemns the violence committed by the Rapid Support Forces and sets up an inquiry into the abuses.

🚢Iran and Oman negotiate a pay model for the Strait of Hormuz. Omani officials say it could resemble voluntary payments taken in the Singapore and Malacca Straits, where a foundation collects them for maintenance of buoys and lighthouses. Tehran, however, has insisted on making them mandatory