A health worker administers a measles test to a car passenger at a mobile testing site in Seminola, Texas, which is experiencing its biggest outbreak in three decades, 21 February 2025. (AP Photo/Julio Cortez)

🔬WHO’s global lab network faces collapse without new funding. The Global Measles and Rubella Laboratory Network, which relies entirely on US donations, tests over 500,000 patient samples annually.

🇳🇮Geneva report urges ICJ action against Nicaragua for ‘repression’. UN-backed investigators accused the Orterga-Murillo regime of dismantling the “last remaining checks on its power”.

🤐US abstains from WTO condemnation of Russian aggression in Ukraine, sources say. It’s the first time the US hasn’t backed a statement issued every year at the trade body since the beginning of the war.

💙💛Countries tell Ukraine ‘you are not alone’ after UN adopts neutral stance on war. Ministers and diplomats attending the Human Rights Council in Geneva gathered for a meeting to mark three years of Russia’s invasion.

🪖Scoop: Trump admin opposes UN commitment to broaden women's peace role. The US suggested at a closed-door meeting of countries that contribute troops to peacekeeping missions removing references to gender and replacing “international humanitarian law” with “relevant legal obligations”.