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UN chief terms Covid-19 a game-changer for international peace and security
United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres told world leaders that the COVID-19 pandemic has become a game-changer for international peace and security.
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Covid-19 exposing inequalities; world at 'breaking point': UN chief
Antonio Guterres calls out 'lies that free markets can deliver health care for all, fiction that unpaid care work is not work'
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Covid-19 lockdown affecting rights of women, girls more, says UN chief
The pandemic is deepening existing inequalities and vulnerabilities, particularly for women and girls, said UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres
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No reason for a country to include coal in Covid-19 recovery plan: UN Chief
A week after India launched the auction process for coal blocks for commercial mining, UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres said investments should instead be made in non-polluting energy sources
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Global food emergency imminent; 49 mn may fall into extreme poverty: UN
'Hundreds of millions of children and adults' face long-term impact of food emergency, says Secretary General Guterres.
UN chief urges govts to address mental health needs arising from Covid-19
The UN said a long-term upsurge in the number and severity of mental health problems is likely and warned that if action isn't taken Covid-19 has the seeds of a major mental health crisis
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Covid-19 worst crisis since WWII, no parallels in recent past, says UN head
Guterres called for a much stronger and more effective global response to the coronavirus pandemic and to the social and economic devastation that COVID-19 is causing
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UN chief Antonio Guterres condemns gurudwara suicide attack in Afghanistan
The Islamic State (IS) terror group, which has targeted Sikhs before in Afghanistan, claimed responsibility for the attack
UN chief says global recession due to coronavirus 'a near certainty'
The world's wealthiest nations poured unprecedented aid into the traumatized global economy on Thursday as coronavirus cases ballooned in Europe, the current epicenter
UN chief voices concern over police action against Citizenship Act protests
pokesperson for the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights had said in Geneva that it is "concerned" that the CAA is "fundamentally discriminatory in nature".
UN chief saddened by displacement of 1 mn, 41 deaths due to rains in India
National disaster response teams are carrying out search-and-rescue operations and some 20,000 people are sheltered in dozens of relief camps.
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Time to curb global warming, no room for climate delay: UN chief Guterres
We're still pouring 110 million tonnes of global warming pollution into the atmosphere around our planet like it's an open sewer, says Antonio Guterres
UN chief condemns deadly terrorist attacks in Pak
Yesterday, at least 13 people were killed and 54 others injured when a Taliban bomber blew himself at Pakistan
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