Source: European Central Bank (video statements)
Sixth ECB Forum on Banking Supervision 2025
Resilience in times of disruption
Thursday, 13 and Friday, 14 November 2025
European Central Bank, Frankfurt am Main
https://www.bankingsupervision.europa.eu/press/conferences/html/20251113_6th_ECB_Forum_Banking_supervision.en.html
Source: World Economic Forum (video statements)
Hospital wards can be noisy places, even at night – and this is affecting patient recovery times.
In the UK, the Silent Hospital Pilot Project – a collaboration between the NHS and DNV Imatis – is trying a different approach. It’s trialling a new system on an antenatal ward that replaces the bells patients ring to attract the attention of nurses or midwives with alerts that are sent directly to staff’s mobile phones. The results so far? Better rested newborns and mothers, faster recovery times, and more efficient patient care.
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Source: United Kingdom UK House of Lords (video statements)
In its new report ‘The Space Economy: Act Now or Lose Out’, the Lords UK Engagement with Space Committee says with a clearer strategy, strong leadership and smart investment, the UK can build on its world-class expertise to be a lead player in the new, global space economy.
The committee says the government should:
🟥 appoint a dedicated space minister and space champion
🟥 establish a space skills taskforce to train the next generation of talent
🟥 strengthen international partnerships to ensure UK space co-operation is part of foreign policy development.
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Source: United Nations (video statements)
Opening press encounter for the Second World Summit for Social Development with the UN Secretary-General.
Speaker: António Guterres, United Nations Secretary-General
Moderated by: Stéphane Dujarric, Spokesperson for the Secretary-General of the United Nations
Source: Republic of South Africa (video statements)
PRESIDENT RAMAPHOSA RECEIVES REPORT OF G20 TASK TEAM ON INEQUALITY
Source: United Kingdom UK Parliament (video statements)
Journalists from the Times, the Mail and the Independent will give opening evidence on the Afghan data breach and on the super-injunction that prohibited reporting of the Afghan data breach for nearly two years will give evidence to the Defence Committee.
Holly Bancroft from the Independent, Larisa Brown from the Times, and Sam Greenhill from the Daily Mail, will appear together.
Members are likely to ask for the witnesses’ personal perspective on the unprecedented use of a super-injunction to protect those affected by the data breach, which also suppressed public debate and media and parliamentary scrutiny of the breach and the Government’s response to it.
The witnesses are also likely to be asked about the risk of Afghans who worked with UK forces being targeted for reprisals due to the data breach, as well as more generally.
Source: United Nations (video statements)
Opening remarks by António Guterres, Secretary-General of the United Nations, at the Second World Summit for Social Development WSSD2 (Doha, Qatar 4-6 November 2025).
António Guterres, Secretary-General of the United Nations, recalled that the first gathering in Copenhagen in 1995 was “a moment of moral clarity”, reminding the world that “true development isn’t about prosperity for the few — it’s about opportunities for the many”.
He hailed progress since then — more than a billion people lifted from poverty, near-historic low unemployment, and expanded access to healthcare, education and social protection — all achieved through “actions by the global community to deliver on the promise of the 2030 Agenda”.
But today, he warned, the world faces “high global uncertainty, divisions, conflicts and widespread human suffering”. Hunger, poverty, and displacement persist, while “developing countries are not getting the level of support they need”. The world is “not moving fast enough” on climate change and is “falling short on the Sustainable Development Goals”.
Source: United Kingdom UK House of Lords (video statements)
Lord Sikka recently questioned the government on the social cost of leaving water companies in private ownership. Watch the full video on our channel.
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Vuk Talks | TVET College Seminar : 23 October 2025
Source: United Nations (video statements)
Noon Briefing by Farhan Haq, Deputy Spokesperson of the Secretary-General.
Highlights:
-Secretary-General/Social Summit
-Secretary-General/C40 World Mayors Summit
-Occupied Palestinian Territory
-Sudan
-Tanzania
-Afghanistan
-Hurricane Melissa
-Haiti
-Ukraine
-Land Degradation
-Marathon
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SECRETARY-GENERAL/SOCIAL SUMMIT
The Secretary-General arrived in Doha a few hours ago; tomorrow, he will open the Second World Social Summit there.
Today, he met with Sheikh Mohammed bin Abdulrahman bin Jassim Al Thani, Prime Minister and Minister for Foreign Affairs of the State of Qatar. During the meeting, the Secretary-General thanked Qatar for hosting this landmark event. The Secretary-General and the Prime Minister discussed several regional issues, including the situation in Gaza. He thanked the Prime Minister for his decisive engagement for personally facilitating the recent ceasefire and hostage release deal in Gaza. The Secretary-General underlined the need to establish a political horizon towards a negotiated two-State solution.
SECRETARY-GENERAL/C40 WORLD MAYORS SUMMIT
Also today, the Secretary-General addressed via a video message the C40 World Mayors Summit, which is taking place in Rio de Janeiro, in Brazil. He noted that ten years after Paris, a new clean energy economy has emerged.
The Secretary-General pointed out that continuing to invest in fossil fuels is a dead end, but the task before us remains immense. He stressed that COP30 must mark the start of a decade of acceleration, and deliver a clear plan to close the gaps on ambition, adaptation, and finance.
The Secretary-General stressed that local leadership will be the force that turns this plan to life. He noted that a decade ago, bold leadership gave us the Paris Agreement and the Sustainable Development Goals. Today, he added, we must summon that same courage and solidarity – to make the clean energy revolution the engine of climate justice.
OCCUPIED PALESTINIAN TERRITORY
Turning to Gaza, the Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs says that the ongoing scale-up of the aid response is already having a positive impact on people in all areas of the Strip. But much more is needed so that we can address the full scale of the needs and leave no one behind.
This Saturday, the UN and our partners collected nearly 200 truckloads of essential supplies from Israeli crossings along the perimeter fence that encircles Gaza. Among the supplies were nearly 1,900 metric tonnes of different food supplies and wheat flour and over 100 pallets of food boxes. The supplies also included over 1,000 pallets of mattresses, blankets, tents, tarpaulins and winter clothes. And they included nearly 300 pallets full of hygiene kits, buckets, water containers, and jerry cans; 50 pallets of fortified cereals; and some 200 pallets of dignity kits, menstrual health kits, and midwifery supplies.
On Sunday – based on initial data that’s still partial – our teams collected nearly 1,000 pallets of blankets, tents, hygiene kits, water tanks, mats, winter clothes, tarpaulins and jerry cans, alongside one truckload of animal fodder.
All of this data is preliminary, and it covers the UN and our partners but does not include bilateral donations and the commercial sector.
Inside Gaza, the UN and our partners are currently supporting 17 bakeries in Gaza – nine in the south and eight in the north, which produce 150,000 bread bundles every day. That’s as of Thursday. These bread bundles are distributed through more than 400 points across the Gaza Strip. We’re also supporting 180 kitchens serving nearly 1,160,000 meals every day. This is as of Saturday. And all of this is in addition to the distribution of food parcels.
On the nutrition front, we are currently supporting 133 treatment sites, including 20 in Gaza City, where famine was confirmed in August. We’re also improving services that prevent malnutrition, including by providing blanket supplementary feeding. On Saturday and Sunday, our teams also delivered 1,000 tarpaulins and 2,500 blankets to people in need.
Full Highlights: https://www.un.org/sg/en/content/noon-briefing-highlight?date=2025-11-03
