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The choice is between existence and extinction. It’s a ‘now or never’ situation as humanity faces the unprecedented impact of climate change. Climate action can no longer be put off nor can the world afford to continue bickering over funding and technology transfers. As the United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres summed up during his speech […]

By Thomas E Doyle, II Every five years, the nearly 200 member states of the Treaty on the Nonproliferation of Nuclear Weapons meet to review their progress – or lack thereof. After being postponed because of the Covid-19 pandemic, the month-long conference is now meeting in New York and opened with a stark warning. The […]

Berlin: UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres warned Tuesday of a “dangerous disconnect” between what scientists and citizens are demanding to curb climate change, and what governments are actually doing about it. Guterres said global greenhouse gas emissions need to drop by 45 per cent this decade, but are currently forecast to increase by 14 per cent. […]

By Alexander Gillespie There could be no better example of the United Nations’ failure to live up to its founding ideals than the recent visit by Secretary-General António Guterres to Russia. Attempting to calm the dangerous war in Ukraine, he obtained nothing of significance. No peace deal, no blue helmeted peacekeepers in the warzone keeping […]

Guterres opened an emergency meeting of the UN Security Council late Wednesday saying the day was full of rumours and indications that an offensive against Ukraine is imminent.

United Nations: The UN wants humanitarian aid to arrive quickly anywhere where it is needed, Secretary-General Antonio Guterres’ Spokesperson Stephane Dujarric has said when asked about Pakistan holding up medicines and 50,000 tonnes of wheat that India wants to send to Afghanistan. “We would want to see, obviously, humanitarian aid to arrive where it needs […]

"We send our deep condolences to his family, his legions of fans throughout the world," Guterres's Spokesperson Stephane Dujarric said on Wednesday.

According to the latest media reports, a total of 232 Palestinians, including more than 60 children, and at least 12 Israelis, have been killed since violence erupted near the Gaza border on May 10

With links forged between the virus, the vaccine and larger questions of national identity, we recognise the repetition of a certain history: of disease, colonial rule and power

Guterres reiterated his call for COVID-19 vaccines to be seen as “a global public good".

We need to stop thinking of ourselves as somehow above or outside the natural systems that support us

In December last year, Guterres had said he intended to take the COVID-19 vaccine when it became available and that he would do so “publicly”.

India has airlifted more than 6 million COVID-19 doses to nine countries in Phase-I under its initiative termed “Vaccine Maitri”.

With permanent members of the UN Security Council putting their own interests above global benefit, the much-needed reforms to address aspirations of developing nations fail to take off

The UN chief asked the developed countries to fulfil their climate finance commitments.

The fighting on the contact line in Nagorno-Karabakh have been ongoing since September 27, with Yerevan and Baku accusing each other of starting the firing.

"The secretary-general welcomes the further release of detainees by the Yemeni parties on Oct. 15 and 16, in line with the agreement reached on Sept. 27 for the release of over 1,000 people who had been detained in connection with the conflict."

"At least 156 wildfires were reported in the three governorates, with significant spread reported across several areas on October 9 and 10."

At least 15 people were killed and 42 others got injured in a car bombing outside a district office in Afghanistan's eastern Nangarhar province on Saturday.