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UN Chief and Russia's Putin Agree on Key Ukraine Evacuation
U.N. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres and Russian President Vladimir Putin have met one-on-one for the first time since Russia invaded Ukraine.
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Coal's a ‘Stupid Investment' and We're ‘Sleepwalking to Climate Catastrophe,' Says UN Chief Guterres
Antonio Guterres pulled no punches in remarks broadcast Monday morning.
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UN Chief: Don't Let Russia Crisis Fuel Climate Destruction
The head of the United Nations says countries scrambling to replace Russian oil, gas and coal supplies with any available alternative may fuel the world’s “mutually assured destruction” through climate change
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Watch Live: Secretary Blinken Gives Update on the War in Ukraine as U.S. Intensifies Pressure on Putin
Earlier in the week, the nation’s top diplomat warned that Russia’s human rights abuses in Ukraine are mounting by the hour.
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Watch Live: President Joe Biden Addresses the Nation on Jan. 6 Capitol Riot Anniversary
President Joe Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris will deliver remarks Thursday marking one year since the unprecedented Jan. 6 assault on the Capitol.
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Boris Johnson Says It Will Be ‘Tough' to Meet Climate Finance Targets Ahead of COP26
Johnson made his remarks to the media during a flight to New York.
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At Least Half of Climate Finance Must Be Spent on Helping Countries Adapt to Climate Change, Says UN Secretary-General
The annual costs of climate adaptation in developing countries are expected to grow to as much as $300 billion by 2030, said Secretary-General Guterres.
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UN Chief Calls for Halt to Violence and Abuse Against Asians
U.N. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres is calling for a halt to all violence against Asians and people of Asian descent
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UN Security Council to Discuss the ‘Gravest Threat' to Global Peace and Stability
Climate change represents a “grave threat” to global peace and security, the U.K. will say when it chairs a special session of the UN Security Council on Tuesday.
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UN Chief Warns ‘Vaccine Nationalism' Is Moving at Full Speed
The United Nations chief is warning that “vaccine nationalism” is moving “at full speed.”
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UN Chief Urges End to Domestic Violence, Citing Global Surge
U.N. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres says there has been “a horrifying global surge in domestic violence” as fear of the coronavirus fas grown along with its social and economic consequences.
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UN Chief Urges Countries Not to Surrender on Climate Fight
U.N. Secretary-General António Guterres urged countries Monday not to lose hope in the fight against climate change, as representatives from nearly 200 countries gathered in Madrid for a two-week meeting on tackling global warming. In his opening speech to delegates, Guterres cited recent scientific data showing that levels of heat-trapping gases have hit a record high, reaching levels not seen...
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UN Chief Warns of ‘Point of No Return' on Climate Change
U.N. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres said Sunday that the world’s efforts to stop climate change have been “utterly inadequate” so far and there is a danger global warming could pass the “point of no return.” Speaking before the start Monday of a two-week international climate conference in Madrid, the U.N. chief said the impact of rising temperatures — including more extreme...
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Dark Skies: UN Meeting Reveals a World in a Really Bad Mood
The planet is heating. Island nations are slipping away. A Pakistan-India nuclear war could be a “bloodbath.” Governments aren’t working together like they used to. Polarization is tearing us apart. Killing. Migration. Poverty. Corruption. Inequality. Sovereignty violations. Helplessness. Hopelessness. “The problems of our times are extraordinary,” Ibraham Mohamed Solih, president of the Maldives, an Indian Ocean island nation threatened by...
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Syria Demands Withdrawal of All American, Turkish Forces
Syria’s top diplomat on Saturday demanded the immediate withdrawal of American and Turkish forces from the country and said his government reserves the right to defend its territory in any way necessary if they remain. Foreign Minister Walid al-Moallem’s remarks to the United Nations General Assembly were made as Turkey and the United States press ahead with a deal to...
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UN Opens Annual Leaders' Meeting Encircled by Troubled World
Navigating a troubled era’s choppy waters, world leaders gather for their annual meeting at the United Nations on Tuesday to grapple with climate change, regional conflicts and a dispute in the Middle East that could ripple across the entire planet. U.N. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres will open the General Assembly proceedings with a “state of the world” speech. He’ll be followed...
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‘You Are Failing Us': Plans, Frustration at UN Climate Talks
Scolded for doing little, leader after leader promised the United Nations on Monday to do more to prevent a warming world from reaching even more dangerous levels. As they made their pledges at the Climate Action Summit, though, they and others conceded it was not enough. And even before they spoke, teenage climate activist Greta Thunberg shamed them over and...
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Youth Leaders at UN Demand Bold Climate Change Action
Fresh off the climate strike that took hundreds of thousands of young people out of classrooms and into the streets globally, youth leaders gathered at the United Nations Saturday to demand radical moves to fight climate change. “We showed that we are united and that we, young people, are unstoppable,” Swedish 16-year-old activist Greta Thunberg, who started the climate strike...
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Cleanup Resumes in Bahamas as Humberto Swirls Away
Jeffrey Roberts lifted a mustard-yellow curtain from the ground to hunt for passports and other documents at the place where his family’s home stood before Hurricane Dorian blasted into Grand Bahama Island. What was underneath was sodden and unrecognizable. He shuffled across a white tile floor, the only clear sign this had once been a house, and found a pair...
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Teen Eco-Activist Greta Thunberg Arrives in New York After 2-Week Sail
Eco-activist Greta Thunberg arrived in New York City on Wednesday, two weeks after she set sail from the English coastline, as part of her campaign to pressure politicians to put climate change at the top of their agendas.