Trade : Trump imposes 25% tariff on India, "penalty" for trade with Russia (PRIV)
(D. Ravi Kanth, Geneva)
United States President Donald Trump on 30 July announced a tariff of 25% on all Indian exports to the American market plus an unspecified "penalty" on India for buying "a vast majority of their military equipment from Russia" along with their being "Russia's largest buyer of energy", seemingly setting new terms of trade for countries on how they must trade with the US, said people familiar with the development.

Health : Draft UN Political Declaration on NCD silent on TRIPS flexibilities (PRIV)
(K M Gopakumar, New Delhi)
The draft political declaration for the upcoming UN General Assembly (UNGA) High-Level Meeting on non-communicable diseases (NCD) is silent on the use of TRIPS flexibilities to overcome intellectual property barriers to access affordable medicines.

UN : Children in peril as cholera crisis spreads across 12 African nations (PRIV)
(Kanaga Raja, Penang)
An estimated 80,000 children are at high risk of cholera, as the rainy season begins across West and Central Africa, the UN Children's Fund (UNICEF) warned on 30 July.