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⚖️US intervention in Venezuela: is the international system powerless? The US abduction of Venezuelan president Nicolás Maduro is the latest blow to international law. A system already bruised by years of selective disregard is now struggling to react.
Geneva Solutions (EN)
🌡️US exit from key UN climate convention deals major blow to climate fight. US president Donald Trump has decided to pull out of several international entities critical for protecting the environment and the climate, including the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change, a cornerstone of the global fight against temperature rise.
Le Temps via Geneva Solutions (EN)
⛓️Russia frees French political scholar in a prisoner swap for a basketball player. Laurent Vinatier, a researcher who was in Moscow on a mission for the Geneva-based Centre for Humanitarian Dialogue, had been sentenced to three years in prison for failing to register as a “foreign agent” while collecting military data and later charged with espionage.
Associated Press (EN)
✂️Exclusive: Germany to halve funding for pandemic surveillance hub amid global health pull-back The German government is set to halve its funding for the Berlin-based WHO Hub for Pandemic and Epidemic Intelligence this year as part of a broader retreat from global health and aid financing under Chancellor Friedrich Merz.
Health Policy Watch (EN)

Good morning, this is Paula. The overnight snow on Thursday wasn’t the only chill to hit Geneva. In Washington, Trump had named dozens of organisations that the US would exit, including eight in Geneva.