— Latest Report on UNCTAD assistance to the Palestinian people, presented to the UN Trade and Development Board, finds that 59 years of occupation have constrained the Palestinian economy, with structural and economic costs rising sharply since October 2023. Following the sharp contraction in 2024, Palestinian GDP grew by 4.3% in 2025 from a low base but remained 20% below its 2022 level. Gaza's real GDP rose by 34.2% after contracting 83% in 2024, a statistical rebound from a sharply reduced base. Across the Occupied Palestinian Territory, hundreds of thousands of jobs have been lost since October 2023, erasing an estimated $2.8 billion in cumulative labour income. 38 communities have been emptied of Palestinians since 2023, and displacement in the first quarter of 2026 exceeded the total recorded in 2025.
— Palestinian Government's fiscal position has deteriorated sharply. Under the Paris Protocol, Israel collects more than two thirds of Palestinian fiscal revenue on behalf of the Palestinian Government. Transfers have been intermittent and subject to deductions. According to the report, clearance revenue transfers due to the Palestinian Government were fully withheld from May 2025 through mid-2026. Cumulative deductions and withheld revenues between January 2019 and March 2026 exceeded an estimated $3.67 billion at the exchange rates prevailing when the payments were due — equivalent to 83% of total Palestinian net revenue in 2025. The report estimates the 2025 budget deficit at 13% of GDP when unpaid clearance revenues are excluded, compared with 6% when those revenues are counted as revenue due to the Government. Health-related arrears reached $1.1 billion by late 2025, raising risks to the continuity of services provided by hospitals, non-governmental providers and pharmaceutical suppliers. In the West Bank, resource shortages led schools to limit in-person instruction to three days a week in 2025, according to the report.
— To finance the deficit, the Government has increasingly borrowed from domestic banks and accumulated arrears to private sector suppliers and the pension fund, bringing total public debt to $4.8 billion in 2025. Combined with lending secured against government salaries, exposure of the banking system to the public sector has reached $5.3 billion, or 42% of all bank lending. The report estimates that 92% of Gaza's economic establishments have been damaged or destroyed since October 2023. GDP per capita stood at $212 in 2025 - equivalent to about $0.58 per person per day in GDP terms and 17% of its 2022 level. Unemployment reached 78%, while more than 90% of the working-age population was not employed. Gaza's share of Palestinian GDP fell from 17.4% before October 2023 to less than 4% in 2025. In 2025, Gaza's overall price level remained 274% above its 2022 level, with staples such as potatoes and cooking gas costing several times their 2022 prices.
— In 2025, Gaza's overall price level remained 274% above its 2022 level, with staples such as potatoes and cooking gas costing several times their 2022 prices. A rapid damage and needs assessment by the World Bank, the European Union and the United Nations estimates physical infrastructure damage in Gaza at $35.2 billion and economic and social losses at $22.7 billion as of early 2026. Separately, it estimates total recovery and reconstruction needs at $71.5 billion. This figure may rise if further damage is being recorded.
— Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said Russia had lost nearly 250,000 troops on the battlefield between January and August this year. The President of the Dominican Republic, Luis Abinader stressed that conflicts in Europe and the Middle East directly affect food and energy prices in his country. Iran's President Masoud Pezeshkian accused the international community of applying double standards to Iran's nuclear activities and Israel's nuclear capabilities and actions in Gaza. African leaders again argued that the Security Council no longer reflects current global realities.
— President Trump threatened the annihilation of Iran if its leaders refuse to strike a deal and framed the U.S. as conquerors of Venezuela, while promoting himself as a problem solver. The president's remarks at the global summit kicked off a whirlwind day that included a secret meeting between U.S. officials and the Iranian delegation, with the two sides at an impasse nearly seven months into the war. Trump also signed an agreement with Denmark and Greenland that ended a standoff over his threats to invade or annex the Arctic island.
— Trump sought to rebrand artificial intelligence as "super intelligence" during his remarks to the U.N. General Assembly but largely dismissed concerns about the technology and calls for global cooperation on its regulation.
— "It was, as usual, a very ideological speech," Sánchez told Jon Stewart, 63, in a preview clip from an upcoming episode of the comedian's Weekly Show podcast. "Not backed and supported by facts and data. When he speaks about climate change, or the war in Iran, or the things that are going on in the Middle East, his political positions are not, let's say, largely supported by many countries worldwide." Both the Cuban and the Iranian delegations walked out of the chamber while Trump was speaking, while Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney, 61, scrolled on a tablet throughout the address.
— "The United Nations has great, great potential — I've said that for many years — but it must stop imposing the far-left agenda of globalist bureaucrats whom nobody ever elected. Led by Ambassador Michael Waltz here at the United Nations, we have also worked with many countries in this room to implement the most sweeping UN reforms in history. We cut the UN budget for the first time ever, slashing it by 15 percent in 2026, and eliminating more than 4,000 positions from the UN bureaucracy."
— "Last year, my administration was forced to intervene to stop an obscure UN body, the International Maritime Organization, from secretly establishing a first-ever global carbon tax — a very expensive tax — to raise international shipping costs by 10 to 20 percent, and maybe more than that. There is no global government, and while I'm president, there will be no global taxes."
— "The United States is equally opposed to the out-of-control institution known as the International Criminal Court. We will never allow U.S. service members or anyone else to be investigated or given show trials by an anti-American tribunal with no jurisdiction over us. You're an evil group of people. I call on all nations that are members of the ICC to officially resign from this rogue institution immediately."
— "It is equally unacceptable that, with all the genuine atrocities in the world, the UN's top human rights officials spend their time criticizing the United States for protecting our children from transgender mutilation and transgender insanity, and for enforcing our immigration laws. What they do is unbelievable, what they do — transgender mutilation of our children. The craven hypocrites of the Human Rights Council have little to say about the persecution of Christians. I mean, Christians are being persecuted all over the world."
— "It is deeply ironic that the United Nations has an entire institution — UNESCO — a group of people and countries devoted to protecting cultural heritage, yet with their ceaseless promotion of mass migration, these globalists are actively destroying the greatest cultures and most extraordinary heritage in all of history. There is no human right to illegal immigration, but there is a right to remain a sovereign nation, and we want to remain a sovereign nation, and so should you."
— Al Jazeera: Police had filed more than 23,000 charges against the suspects, all of whom denied involvement. Six almost simultaneous bombings struck churches and hotels on Easter Sunday in 2019, killing 279 people. At least 450 people were injured, with officials in the aftermath blaming a local armed group for the suicide bombings. All of the accused are from Sri Lanka's minority Muslim community. During the trial, more than 2,300 people gave evidence for the prosecution. There were also 2,076 pieces of evidence, including explosives, swords and firearms.
— BBC: France had campaigned for Russian-Uzbek billionaire Alisher Usmanov to be taken off the list, citing "national security concerns". Luxembourg called for the removal of Russian-Israeli businessman Mikhail Fridman, who is suing the country for the release of frozen assets. France had campaigned for Russian-Uzbek billionaire Alisher Usmanov to be taken off the list, citing "national security concerns". Luxembourg called for the removal of Russian-Israeli businessman Mikhail Fridman, who is suing the country for the release of frozen assets.
— Ukrainian officials said the move was "unacceptable" and sent the wrong signal to Moscow. "Moscow is celebrating because it got what it wanted: a sense of impunity, the humiliation of the EU, and division among Europeans," Foreign Minister Andriy Sybiha said on X. He urged all EU member states to instead announce national sanctions on the two individuals. Latvia has already said it would do so.