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Funding to help poorer countries cope with climate crisis has stalled, says UN
Report reveals financial support promised by rich nations for adaptation measures behind pace with what is nee...
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The UAE has so much blood on its hands in Sudan. For its nominee to lead the UN would be an outrage
Lana Nusseibeh has been the face of a disastrous Emirates policy that has prolonged war and death. It is a sca...
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Fears mount that next UN chief will downgrade climate action
Experts say some of António Guterres’s possible successors could be ‘disastrous’ for efforts to tackle crisis
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Superpowers cannot solve world’s problems, UN chief says in final general assembly address
António Guterres says humanity faces unprecedented convergence of threats but mechanisms for collective action...
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Race to be next UN secretary general could rest on US and China trade-offs
Numerous possible last-minute entrants being discussed as current field of seven candidates struggle to garner...
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61m tonnes of rubble: Gaza aid workers face delicate task of clearing ruins concealing up to 10,000 bodies
Removal of war debris, in which lives, memories and unexploded Israeli bombs lie buried, is one of largest cle...
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I have seen with pride how British overseas aid saves children’s lives. That is why I say cuts should be reversed
I understand the pressure on the public purse, but I have also seen the effect of our spending on the ground,...
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Outgoing UN chief says polluters have treated atmosphere like an ‘open sewer’
António Guterres laments world leaders’ inaction and says oil and gas firms ‘must pay’ for climate devastation
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Trump praises relations with Burnham despite tensions over AI and Iran
US president calls UK prime minister ‘a natural businessperson’ as leaders meet at UN assembly in New York
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Call it a win: boredom but no temper tantrums in Burnham’s first face-to-face with America’s King Baby
Meeting at the UN in New York, the UK prime minister showed signs he can handle trash-talking President Trump
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World leaders address climate crisis before UN meet amid record-breaking El Niño
Prime ministers of Australia and Iceland discuss effects on their countries even as some shy away in face of w...