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US 'Cannot Defeat Venezuela', Maduro Says Amid Tensions With Washington

Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro defied the U.S. on Tuesday, saying that Washington “cannot defeat" his country, which he said is “invincible” amid the escalation of tensions in the southern Caribbean

2025-11-26 04:04:03 0 Comment 15273 view

Libya: A Criminal Paradise At Europe’s Doorstep

The common image of the Sahel is one of arid lands, poverty, and despair. But this image is dangerously outdated

2025-10-31 02:12:52 0 Comment 21029 view

Climate Science And Early Warnings Key To Saving Lives

No country is safe from the devastating impacts of extreme weather — and saving lives means making early-warning systems accessible to all, UN chief António Guterres said on Wednesday

2025-10-23 05:00:42 0 Comment 24818 view

Intensifying Threat Looms Large As UN Highlights The World’s Growing Nuclear Arsenals

The UN Secretary General on Friday warned a high-level meeting in New York focused on ridding the world of nuclear weapons that the threat is only “accelerating and evolving”

2025-09-29 05:18:24 0 Comment 31609 view

Ahead Of High-Stakes General Assembly Week, Guterres Urges World Leaders To ‘Get Serious – And Deliver’

UN Secretary-General António Guterres has urged world leaders to “get serious – and deliver” as they begin arriving in New York for the high-level week of the 80th General Assembly

2025-09-17 15:00:02 0 Comment 37598 view

‘Landlocked To Land-linked’: UN Summit Seeks To Turn Geography Into Opportunity

For the world’s landlocked developing countries (LLDCs), geography isn’t just a challenge, it’s a costly barrier to trade

2025-08-07 12:10:25 0 Comment 46601 view

‘Plenty Of Fish In The Sea’? Not Anymore, Say UN Experts In Nice

At the Third UN Ocean Conference in Nice, the “catch of the day” wasn’t a seabass or a red mullet – it was a figure: 35 per cent

2025-06-14 08:17:55 0 Comment 38472 view

UN Chief Calls For Major Reforms To Cut Costs And Improve Efficiency

Amid financial strain and growing global challenges, UN Secretary-General António Guterres is pushing for wide-ranging structural reforms to enhance the world body’s effectiveness

2025-05-15 03:21:52 0 Comment 38592 view

Journalism Facing New Threats From AI And Censorship

Countries must do everything to ensure that free and independent news reporting can thrive, the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights said on Friday in a message to mark World Press Freedom Day

2025-05-06 02:44:57 0 Comment 56485 view

External Flow Of Weapons Into Sudan Must End, Insists UN’s Guterres

Two years to the day since Sudan’s brutal war erupted between rival generals who rejected the peaceful transition to civilian rule after the overthrow of Omar Al-Bashir, UN chief António Guterres insisted that the world “must not forget” the suffering of the country’s people

2025-04-18 00:56:09 0 Comment 45911 view

At Davos, UN-Sec-Gen Guterres Slams Backsliding On Climate Commitments

The world’s political and business elite present in Davos on Wednesday faced an uncompromising address from UN chief António Guterres

2025-01-24 13:32:22 0 Comment 47353 view

Syria Transition May Fail If Support Lifeline Is Delayed, Says IOM Chief

The head of the UN migration agency stressed on Friday that Syria is in no position to take back millions of Syrians following the fall of the Assad regime

2024-12-23 13:34:13 0 Comment 44902 view

Ahead Of G20 Summit In Brazil, Guterres Urges Bloc To Take The Lead On Peace, Climate And Other Challenges

The G20 group of developed economies must be at the forefront of global efforts to bring about peace, climate action, fairer international financial institutions and equitable access to emerging technologies

2024-11-19 02:32:08 0 Comment 55956 view

85 Percent Of Journalist Killings Go Unpunished

Between 2006 and 2024, over 1,700 journalists have been killed around the world

2024-11-07 05:21:33 0 Comment 47414 view

Kazan’s BRICS Summit Is A Head-On Challenge To Western Influence

As the BRICS summit unfolds in Kazan, Russia, the significance of this gathering transcends mere diplomatic niceties

2024-11-02 10:13:45 0 Comment 58278 view

Greenhouse Gases Surged To New Highs In 2023, Warns UN Weather Agency

New data released by the UN on Monday indicating that greenhouse gases have hit a record high shows once again that urgent action and not words is needed from the world’s major polluters to protect us all from climate change

2024-10-29 13:00:27 0 Comment 52651 view

Xi’s $51 Billion Pledge To Africa: A Landmark Deal Or A Debt Trap?

In a sweeping announcement at the Forum on China-Africa Cooperation Summit held on September 5, 2024 in Beijing

2024-10-29 12:35:11 0 Comment 62575 view

Investing In Clean Air Can Saves Lives And Combat Climate Change

The UN Secretary-General is marking ‘Clean Air Day’ with a call for global investment in solutions that tackle climate change and the increasing public health, environmental, and economic harm caused by air pollution

2024-09-09 04:37:51 0 Comment 59564 view

Planning Ahead: 5 Things To Know About The UN’s Landmark Summit Of The Future

Is there another way the world could be run? And in the face so much global turmoil, how can we make the future fairer?

2024-09-07 12:17:28 0 Comment 54850 view

UN Chief Urges Climate Justice For Pacific Nations Beset By Rising Oceans

Pacific island nations threatened by rising oceans, debt and geopolitical tensions can only fight back if international lenders agree to fairer terms for vital development funding and the world’s biggest polluters make a “massive increase” in contributions to address “climate chaos”

2024-08-23 06:25:29 0 Comment 54250 view