— To strengthen global coronavirus monitoring, WHO has also expanded its Coronavirus Network (CoViNet), a network of disease surveillance programmes and reference laboratories for SARS-CoV-2, MERS-CoV, and emerging coronaviruses of public health significance.
— Judges believe a significant number of detainees experienced torture, sexual violence, and other abuses during Khaled Mohamed Ali El Hishri's command from February 2015 to early 2020.
— The 2 men in their 60s were convicted by a judge in the Gauteng High Court in Johannesburg. They will be sentenced later. A third former police officer was acquitted. They were brought to trial after another ex-police officer confessed publicly to Nyoka's killing in 2019.
— Annual global climate damage by the middle of the century is predicted to be five times greater than the cost of limiting global warming to 2 degrees Celsius, rather than six times greater as previously calculated.
— There have already been some conservation wins, including stronger protections for fish, snakes and mammals.
— Trump signed the Taiwan Assurance Implementation Act into law, requiring the U.S. State Department to review and update its guidelines for U.S. engagements with Taiwan at least once every five years. The measure is designed to deepen the U.S.–Taiwan relationship in the absence of formal diplomatic relations