WTO: US, DG "at loggerheads", Washington rejects tariff monitoring (PRIV)
(D. Ravi Kanth, Yerevan)
The United States on 21 May appears to have rejected a proposal at the World Trade Organization for establishing a monitoring mechanism for conducting simulations on the impact of tariffs on members, a proposal that was seemingly floated by several countries and backed by the WTO Director- General, Ms Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, said people familiar with the development.

UN: Call for urgent action to pull Yemen back from "brink of catastrophe" (PRIV)
(Kanaga Raja, Penang)
A group of 116 aid organizations, including ten United Nations agencies, operating in Yemen, has called on the international community to take "urgent, collective action to prevent catastrophic conditions from taking hold" in the country.

UN: Funding cuts risk deepening acute food insecurity, says report (PRIV)
(Kanaga Raja, Penang)
The abrupt termination of funding in 2025 has disrupted operations, including in Afghanistan, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Ethiopia, Haiti, South Sudan, the Sudan and Yemen amid substantial reductions by major donors, according to the Global Report on Food Crises (GRFC).