Guterres calls for cooperation and UN reform in final General Assembly address
In his farewell address to the UN General Assembly, Secretary-General António Guterres warned that widening divisions, conflict, inequality, climate change and artificial intelligence pose interconnected challenges. He urged countries to cooperate, reform the Security Council and establish shared safeguards for AI, while calling for action on conflicts and climate change.
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Fox News · United States23 Sep 12:00Lost in translation: Israel, Huckabee blast Macron over Hamas comments as France clarifies wording
a scale of killing and destruction unlike anything I have witnessed in all my years as Secretary-General.
PBS NewsHour · United States22 Sep 22:55Trump defends Iran war and threatens annihilation at UN General Assembly
The fault lines in our world are widening. Cracks have become canyons.
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"a world built on interdependence"
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France 24 · France22 Sep 21:02Guterres pleads for 'world built on interdependence' in final General Assembly address
“a world built on interdependence – and sustained by a dense web of economic, political, social and technological connections”
El País · Spain22 Sep 17:44Guterres, in his final address to the UN General Assembly: “The world’s cracks have turned into chasms”
BBC News · United Kingdom23 Sep 02:57Trump threatens to 'annihilate' Iran in UN speech as officials from both countries meet on sidelines
The fault lines in our world are widening,
The Guardian · United Kingdom22 Sep 21:19Outgoing UN chief says polluters have treated atmosphere like an ‘open sewer’
“the atmosphere as an open sewer”
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“Life-and-death decisions must never be surrendered to machines,”
teleSUR English · Venezuela23 Sep 12:49Trump Rejects International Regulation of Artificial Intelligence
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The Hindu · India23 Sep 01:18We must reform the Security Council: UN chief Guterres in final UNGA address
A 21st-century Security Council without permanent African representation is unjust and indefensible.
Daily Jang · Pakistan22 Sep 15:09