ICRC teams received hostages in Gaza and transferred Palestinians from Israeli detention to Gaza and the West Bank.
Israel and Hamas completed the first phase of a U.S.-backed ceasefire deal, concluding the transfer of the last living Israeli hostages and immediately triggering the release of nearly 2,000 Palestinian security prisoners.
The exchange successfully concluded the most sensitive humanitarian component of the truce but immediately exposed deep divisions at a multinational peace summit convened in Egypt's seaside Sharm El-Sheikh.
The staggering reconstruction cost is compounded by an inability to deliver immediate, life-saving supplies.
The main outcome was the adoption of a declaration to uphold humanitarian norms and support humanitarian action.
WFP warned that global funding cuts could push 13.7 million food aid recipients from crisis to emergency levels of hunger.
The U.N. chief commended the diplomatic efforts of the U.S., Qatar, Egypt, and Turkey in brokering the breakthrough.
At APEC, China pushed to create a new rules-based global organization on AI, possibly headquarted in Shanghai.
A new subsidiary of the Convention on Biological Diversity ended its inaugural session deciding how to be integrated.
The directive, using the stronger language of an 'instruction' rather than a threat, undermines decades of arms control.
Developing nations get 12 to 14 times less than what's needed to adapt infrastructure and prepare for climate impacts.
