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The Latest Breaking News from Antonio Guterres

At UN, hope peeks through the gloom despite a global morass

Hope can be hard to find anywhere these days

The Independent UK

Analysis: UN chief, speaking to leaders, doesn't mince words

It was Antonio Guterres' strongest and most striking speech since he took the helm of the United Nations in 2017, The secretary-general not only sounded a global alarm to world leaders about the survival of humanity and the planet, but he used very undiplomatic language in calling out those he…

The Independent UK

Annual high-power UN meetings start with US looking to shore up unity on Ukraine

UNITED NATIONS — The world’s leaders converged on the United Nations on Tuesday for the opening sessions of the body’s annual General Assembly, held in person for the first time in three years, but with twin crises of war in Ukraine and famine in Africa weighing heavily on the gathering.

Los Angeles Times

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UN chief says world ‘in peril and paralysed’ as summit convenes

At UN General Assembly, Guterres warns leaders that nations are ‘gridlocked in colossal global dysfunction’.

Al Jazeera

Pakistan floods a colossal tragedy

'I have never seen climate carnage on the scale of the floods here in Pakistan. As our planet continues to warm, all countries will increasingly suffer losses and damage from climate beyond their capacity to adapt. This is a global crisis, it demands a global response," wrote UN Secretary General…

Bangkok Post

UN chief calls for energy windfall taxes to help climate victims

UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres urges rich countries to help countries harmed by the climate crisis.

Al Jazeera

UN Chief Warns of ‘Winter of Discontent’ as War and Climate Worsen

The head of the United Nations warned Tuesday of an upcoming "winter of global discontent" from rising prices, a warming planet and deadly conflicts as world leaders sought ways forward on Ukraine and Iran. The UN General Assembly, the annual gathering of world leaders that clogs Midtown Manhattan, returned in…

Asharq Al-Awsat

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UN chief gives grim assessment of planet as leaders descend on NYC for annual General Assembly

NEW YORK — U.N. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres gave a grim assessment of the state of the planet Tuesday as world leaders descend on New York City for the annual traffic-choking General Assembly, saying nations are “gridlocked in colossal global dysfunction.”

Tribune News Service

Polluters must pay, says UN chief, urges taxes to help climate victims

U.N. chief Antonio Guterres on Tuesday urged rich countries to tax windfall profits of fossil fuel companies and use that money to help countries harmed by the climate crisis and people who are struggling with rising food and energy prices.

Reuters

UN chief urges rich nations to address climate injustice

U.N. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres told world leaders Tuesday that rich energy companies should be forced to fork over some windfall profits to aid victims of climate change and offset rising fuel and food costs

The Independent UK

UN General Assembly: Who is attending, and what’s on the agenda?

World leaders will speak in person at the UN headquarters in New York for the first time since the COVID-19 pandemic.

Al Jazeera

UN Chief Warns Global Leaders: The World Is in ‘Great Peril’

Warning that the world is in "great peril," the head of the United Nations says leaders meeting in person for the first time in three years must tackle conflicts and climate catastrophes, increasing poverty and inequality — and address divisions among major powers that have gotten worse since Russia invaded…

Asharq Al-Awsat

Chilling warning from UN that world is 'in great peril' over four major threats

Head of United Nations warns of 'immense' task to save the planet which is 'literally on fire'

Wales Online

UN chief warns that world is in ‘great peril’ as leaders arrive for General Assembly

Warning that the world is in “great peril,” the head of the United Nations says leaders meeting in person for the first time in three years must tackle conflicts and climate catastrophes, increasing poverty and inequality — and address divisions among major powers that have gotten worse since Russia invaded…

France 24

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The Independent UK

UN chief warns global leaders: The world is in 'great peril'

U_N_ Secretary-General Antonio Guterres is warning that the world is in “great peril."

The Independent UK

At UN, leaders confront COVID's impact on global education

School disruptions from the COVID-19 pandemic have set back children around the globe, from the United States to sub-Saharan Africa

Reuters

Poet Amanda Gorman, K-pop's Blackpink push global goals at U.N.

South Korean pop band Blackpink and American poet Amanda Gorman took to the United Nations stage on Monday to urge action on climate change and other global goals that include achieving gender equality and ending hunger and poverty.

The Independent UK

In world beset by turbulence, nations' leaders gather at UN

World leaders are gathering at the United Nations this week under the shadow of Europe’s first major conflict since World War II

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France 24

UN chief Antonio Guterres: ‘I hope the ICC can investigate Izium’

Two days before the start of the 77th UN General Assembly in New York on Tuesday, UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres said he hoped the International Criminal Court (ICC) would be able to investigate the alleged massacre in the eastern Ukrainian city of Izium in an interview with FRANCE 24’s Marc…

Reuters

Ukraine to dominate as world leaders gather at United Nations

Russia's invasion of Ukraine and a global food crisis aggravated by the war will be the focus of world leaders when they convene at the United Nations in New York this week, a gathering that is unlikely to yield any progress toward ending the conflict.

Chicago Sun-Times

Flood-hit Pakistan deserves more attention and help

The crippling natural disaster is another example of how the actions of economically stronger and more powerful nations, however unintentional, can have a crushing impact.

Asharq Al-Awsat

UN Summit Returns in Person to World of Divisions

The UN General Assembly is back in person after the pandemic disruption but in a world as full of crises as ever, with the war in Ukraine set to pit the West against Russia. Some 150 world leaders will descend on New York for a week of diplomacy, with all…

Reuters

U.N. chief spoke with Putin, pushes Russian fertilizer exports

U.N. chief Antonio Guterres said he spoke with Russian President Vladimir Putin on Wednesday about Ukrainian Black Sea grain exports and that he was hopeful a U.N.-brokered deal would be maintained and expanded to include Russian ammonia.

The Independent UK

UN chief and Russia's Putin discuss war in Ukraine

U.N. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres says he spoke to Russian President Vladimir Putin about exporting Russian fertilizer through Black Sea ports to address a growing global food crisis

Reuters

Putin tells U.N. chief he welcomes cooperation with IAEA over Zaporizhzhia plant - Kremlin

Russian President Vladimir Putin told United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres on Wednesday that he welcomed "constructive" cooperation with the IAEA nuclear watchdog following its visit to Ukraine's Zaporizhzhia nuclear plant, the Kremlin said.

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