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LIVE COVERAGE: Join forces to take ‘more sustainable path’, Guterres tells world leaders
24 September 2024
The world is on an unsustainable course, the UN Secretary General told world leaders gathered for the UN general debate in New York on Tuesday – but growing impunity, inequality and chaos must make way for accountability, justice and opportunity and a future of solutions, not endless conflict. UN News app users click here for a look back at our live coverage.…
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Lebanon escalation: Have we learned nothing from Gaza, UN humanitarians ask
24 September 2024
As Lebanon mourns the victims of a wave of Israeli airstrikes believed to have left hundreds dead, UN humanitarians warned on Tuesday against a return to the “dark days of 2006” when full-scale war broke out, calling for an urgent de-escalation and the protection of civilians.…
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UN’s Guterres urges global solutions as uncertain world edges toward a ‘powder keg’
24 September 2024
The world is locked in a “purgatory of polarity” with a growing number of governments and others feeling entitled to a “get out of jail free card”, Secretary-General António Guterres told the UN General Assembly, which opened its annual high-level meeting on Tuesday.…
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Trust in UN’s cornerstone ideals ‘crumbling’: King Abdullah II of Jordan
24 September 2024
Addressing world leaders at the UN General Assembly, King Abdullah II of Jordan warned that the United Nations is facing an unprecedented crisis, one that threatens its legitimacy and undermines global trust in its moral authority.
He noted that while the world has seen many conflicts…
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The world is at an inflection point but ‘there’s always a way forward’, says Biden
24 September 2024
United States President Joe Biden told leaders at the United Nations on Tuesday that with the world at a historical inflection point “our task, our test, is to make sure that the forces holding us together are stronger than those that are pulling us apart.”
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UN Assembly President urges nations to sustain momentum from Summit of the Future
23 September 2024
The President of the UN General Assembly urged all nations to sustain their momentum toward decisive action and to advance the outcomes of the Summit of the Future as it concluded on Monday.
Addressing the closing session of the Summit following the adoption of the landmark…
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Afghanistan: No future without women’s participation
23 September 2024
Afghan women earned the right to vote more than a century ago. Today, under Taliban rule, they are practically erased from public life and even banned from singing.
These were just some of the chilling observations and testimony from Afghan women, together with supporters from around the world, who…
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Dramatic uptick in violence as Guterres voices grave alarm at Lebanon-Israel escalation
23 September 2024
Tensions continued to ratchet up in the Middle East on Monday with reports of scores of retaliatory Israeli strikes on Hezbollah targets in southern Lebanon which have reportedly left nearly 500 dead, and strikes in Gaza including on a refugee camp, UN humanitarians said…
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World News in Brief: 1.3 billion teens suffering mental disorders, Russia’s Indigenous Peoples face ‘extinction’, Belarus rights update
23 September 2024
At least one in seven youngsters has a mental disorder. That’s the warning from the UN World Health Organization (WHO), which has appealed for much greater investment to help almost 1.3 billion teenagers globally.
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Torture ‘a common and acceptable practice’ in Ukraine war, UN investigators say
23 September 2024
Russian authorities are using torture “with a sense of impunity” in the ongoing war in Ukraine, the UN Human Rights Council in Geneva heard on Monday.
In an oral update to members, Erik Møse, chair of the Commission of Inquiry on Ukraine, said it has documented new cases…
