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New data from UNICEF indicates "vaccine hesitancy" is rising.

Climate & Health

UNICEF raises alert over lagging confidence in childhood vaccines

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Public perception of the importance of vaccines for children fell during the pandemic in 52 of 55 countries studied.

Twitter verification is essential to curb impersonation and fake news.

Global Opinions

The great Twitter cull looms for leaders and organizations

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Hundreds of accounts of world leaders and their institutions, plus 40 organizations and their leaders, were to be demoted.

NATO chief Jens Stoltenberg rebuked Russia and China over global arms control.

Nuclear Security & WMD

International arms control at a 'crossroads' over nuclear threats

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The NATO chief emphasized the need to negotiate new arms control arrangements, despite broad geopolitical worries.

Foreign ministers from the Group of Seven wealthy democracies meet for a working dinner.

Nuclear Security & WMD

G-7 pushes back against aggressive nuclear moves by Russia and China

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The Group of Seven's nonproliferation directors expressed alarm that Russia, China and North Korea have all been pushing to expand their nuclear-armed capabilities.

On the banks of the drying Jordan River, a victim of conflict.

Climate & Health

Rapprochement could help address the Middle East's climate problem

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The Middle East and North Africa are particularly vulnerable to climate change, but many health impacts are unknown.

Russia’s commissioner for children’s rights, Maria Lvova-Belova, speaks by videoconference to the U.N. Security Council.

Human Rights

Wanted on war crimes charges, Russian official appears before U.N.

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Diplomats from other nations objected to the Russian-led U.N. Security Council session as an exercise in disinformation.

Diplomats meet in the U.N. Security Council Chamber in 2019

Security & Geopolitics

Putin, charged with war crimes, takes over U.N.'s most powerful arm

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Russia's status as U.N. Security Council president is bound up in a frozen-in-time power structure dating to World War II.

Switzerland's Mühleberg Nuclear Power Plant.

SciTech Diplomacy

News consortium reveals trove of data on Russian cyber strategies

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The potential Russian targets for cybercrimes and disinformation included Swiss diplomats and nuclear plants.

A U.S. Air Force transporter erector attached to a payload transporter is raised with the missile removed

Nuclear Security & WMD

Stockpiles of nuclear weapons available for use increased in 2022

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Nuclear warheads available to nations for deployment reached 9,576 at the start of 2023, up from 9,440 a year earlier.

The global headquarters of Credit Suisse in Zurich

Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)

Swiss devise $3.25B deal for UBS to aquire 'too big to fail' Credit Suisse

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The Financial Stability Board designated the two biggest Swiss banks as so important economically they are 'too big to fail.'

Around the world many large lakes are filling with sediment and robbing dams of their storage capacity

Climate & Health

World's aging dams lose storage capacity at alarming rate

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Storage loss by 2050 will equal the combined yearly water use of Canada, China, France, a U.N. University report shows.

A Turkish border crossing will remain the only authorized humanitarian aid route into Syria

Humanitarians & Peace

U.N. reauthorizes Turkish aid route into Syria's rebel-held northwest

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The border crossing allows the United Nations and other humanitarian organizations to provide food, medicine and other basic items to the 4.1 million mainly displaced inhabitants of Syria's northwest Idlib province.