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UN leader Antonio Guterres on Saturday slammed the world’s rich countries and energy giants for throttling poor nations with “predatory” interest rates and crippling fuel prices. Guterres told a summit of the most deprived states on the planet that wealthy nations should provide $500 billion a year to help others …

The United Nations chief has called for an immediate end to all military activity around Europe’s largest nuclear power plant in southeastern Ukraine, as Moscow and Kyiv blamed each other for renewed shelling. Ukraine’s Energoatom agency said the Zaporizhzhia complex was struck five times on Thursday, including near where radioactive …

The United Nations chief warned in an address on Monday that “humanity is just one misunderstanding, one miscalculation away from nuclear annihilation,” citing the war in Ukraine, nuclear threats in Asia and the Middle East and many other factors. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres gave the dire warning at the opening of …

Iran welcomes negotiations that have tangible, practical results, the Iranian Minister said, adding that Tehran will return to its commitments if other JCPOA members fufilll their obligations. A telephone conversation was held between the Iranian Minister of Foreign Affairs Hossein Amir-Abdollahian and the UN Secretary-General António Guterres on Monda night. …

The mankind is too close to nuclear annihilation, UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres tweeted on Sunday. “Nearly 14,000 nuclear weapons are stockpiled around the world. Humanity remains unacceptably close to nuclear annihilation,” Guterres said. “Now is the time to lift the cloud of nuclear conflict for good, eliminate nuclear weapons from …

The world needs to ditch coal in order to tackle climate change and save the planet, former UK business secretary Alok Sharma, who is now president for this year’s global climate summit COP26, said on Friday. In a speech in Glasgow, the city that will host the 26th United Nations …