The Hôtel des Finances building, photographed on 22 February 2016 in Geneva. (Keystone/Salvatore Di Nolfi)

🏛️Geneva court exempts wealthy UN staffer from paying taxes. A Swiss Wipo employee has won the right to pay zero tax in Geneva, after a court ruled that her internationally protected salary cannot be factored into the canton’s wealth tax calculations. The fiscal authorities are appealing the decision that could have broad implications for the city’s international workers.

🌐WTO suffers fresh blow as reform push hits a wall at Cameroon meeting. The ministerial conference ended in the early hours of Monday, with Brazil blocking a US-led bid to permanently extend a duties moratorium on e-commerce, deepening fractures within the trade organisation.

⏳Pandemic agreement talks get five more negotiating days. Negotiators will meet again within a month in a last-ditch attempt to break the deadlock over a proposed system for exchanging pathogen data in return for a share of the medical benefits it generates, ahead of the World Health Assembly deadline at the end of May.

🇨🇭ICRC president urges Switzerland to stand firmly by international law. Mirjana Spoljaric says it's the most effective way for Switzerland to safeguard the security of its own population.

🧪CERN's Sharma: Global science runs on trust, not just new technologies. Senior scientist Archana Sharma says our shared system is more than just a technical enterprise.