WTO: Reform facilitator faces allegations of "burying" development agenda (PRIV)
(D. Ravi Kanth, Geneva)
A major industrialized country has reportedly instructed the facilitator overseeing the discussions on reform of the World Trade Organization not to prepare any chair's document for trade ministers at the WTO's upcoming 14th ministerial conference (MC14), given the seemingly unbridgeable differences on three targeted issues, according to people familiar with the development.

UN: Hunger surges in 16 countries amid severe funding shortfalls (PRIV)
(Kanaga Raja, Penang)
The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) and the World Food Programme (WFP) have warned that acute food insecurity is likely to worsen across 16 countries and territories between November 2025 and May 2026, threatening to drive millions more into famine or risk of famine.

UN: War and hunger "two faces of same crisis", says deputy UN chief (PRIV)
(Kanaga Raja, Penang)
For hundreds of millions of people trapped in conflict zones, "war and hunger are often two faces of the same crisis," the United Nations Deputy Secretary-General Amina J. Mohammed said on 17 November.