US trade representative Jamieson Greer nd US treasury secretary Scott Bessent take part in a press conference after two days of closed-door trade talks between the United States and China, in Geneva, on 12 May, 2025. (Jean-Christophe Bott/Keystone)

🇨🇳🇺🇸United States and China reach trade truce in Geneva. American negotiators, who met for two days with their Chinese counterparts in a villa in Cologny, on Monday revealed the first details of a deal aimed at defusing the trade war launched by Donald Trump. Both sides have agreed to roll back most of their recent tariffs for 90 days.

🤖Nations meet at UN for ‘killer robot’ talks as regulation lags. Countries have been negotiating in Geneva since 2014 to ban or restrict AI-driven weapons under the Convention on Conventional Weapons.

🗣Opinion: A one billion franc proposal to help international Geneva – a laughable idea? A Liberal lawmaker asked the Swiss Confederation for CHF 1bn to help Geneva deal with the huge blow to international organisations hit by US funding cuts. But it's not a billion more that Geneva needs – it's a change of vision and priorities.

⚕️Critical global shortage of nurses undermines universal healthcare. While the number of nurses worldwide increased by about two million between 2018 and 2023, there is still a huge global shortage concentrated in poorer nations, a key report released yesterday shows.

💰How hard are USAID cuts hitting Africa's healthcare? Funding cuts have been a blow to many African countries with sub-Saharan Africa, the second-largest recipient of USAid funding worldwide, receiving $12.7bn in 2024 alone.