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"What we're planning to spend, hoping to spend, which for 2023, is 51.5 billion dollars," says UN Under-Secretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs, Martin Griffiths, at a UN press conference in Geneva, Switzerland. The United Nations' annual Global Humanitarian Overview estimates that 339 million people worldwide will need some form of emergency assistance next year.
The UN says $5bn (€4.4bn) is needed to pay health and other essential workers to help prevent the collapse of basic services following the Taliban takeover.
Emilia Romagna is one of Italy’s richest regions and the impact of the floods has raised questions about why funding allocated to counter hydrological instability has not been used.
Meta has been ordered to stop transferring European user data across the Atlantic by October to comply with strict EU privacy rules.
The US streaming platform Netflix says it's doubling the amount of money invested to create new Korean films and TV shows over the next four years, hoping to capitalise on the success of series like "Squid Game". The announcement came after Netflix's CEO met with South Korean President Yoon Suk-yeol in Washington. But first, First Republic Bank reveals it saw more than $100 billion in withdrawals this year amid turmoil in the banking sector.