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At a United Nations event on the eve of International Women's Day on Saturday, Guterres said centuries of discrimination against women were being exacerbated by new threats.
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Arab leaders arrived in Egypt’s New Administrative Capital on Tuesday (March 4) for an emergency Arab summit on Gaza. Egypt was expected to present a reconstruction plan for Gaza to Arab leaders that would cost $53 billion over five years and avoid resettling Palestinians. This proposal is in contrast to U.S. President Donald Trump's idea of developing a "Middle East Riviera", according to a copy of the plan seen by Reuters. United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres, Syria’s interim President Ahmed al-Sharaa, and Lebanese President Joseph Aoun were among those received by Sisi. Arab leaders were also expected to call for elections in the West Bank and Gaza in one year, according to the draft final communique
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The United Nations has long endorsed a vision of two states living side by side within secure and recognized borders.
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Bookmakers have Russian dissident Alexei Navalny as a favourite to win this year's award. But that is not possible as he cannot receive the prize posthumously. Another bookies' favourite, Ukraine's Volodymyr Zelenskyy, is unlikely to win because he is the leader of a nation at war.
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Zambia in June became the first country to successfully restructure its debt through the scheme, more than three years after it defaulted on its loans.
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UN Chief Guterres warns of Himalayan catastrophe due to rapid glacier melting, urges urgent action in ongoing climate talks.
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In a post on X, Nepal's Prime Minister's office said a meeting was held between PM Prachanda and UN chief Guterres, who is here on an official visit to Nepal at the friendly invitation of the prime minister.
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The UN Secretary-General said terrorism has become a global phenomenon and that India "naturally" has its "own concerns".
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Delhi G20: Guterres said his message to G20 - the world's biggest economies, which are also the biggest emitters is that as climate chaos gathers pace, the world is looking to them.
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As the World Meteorological Organisation and the European Commission's Copernicus Climate Change Service released official data confirming that July 2023 is set to be the hottest month ever recorded in human history, Guterres said humanity is in the hot seat.
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Generative AI technology that can spin authoritative prose from text prompts has captivated the public since ChatGPT launched six months ago and became the fastest growing app of all time.
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The UN chiefs latest remarks in Hiroshima come as a strong endorsement of the need to reform the 15-nation powerful UN organ.
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Jaishankar is headed on a nine-day trip to Guyana, Panama, Colombia and the Dominican Republic beginning Friday, his first visit as the external affairs minister to these countries in Latin America and the Caribbean.
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"Glaciers are critical to all life on earth. Over centuries, they carved out the landmasses we call home. Today, they cover 10 per cent of our world. Glaciers are also the world's water towers," Guterres said in his remarks to an event on the International Year of Glaciers' Preservation Wednesday.
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The United Nations chief said it more bluntly, calling for an end to new fossil fuel exploration and rich countries quitting coal, oil and gas by 2040.
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On the global financial system, Guterres called for a new commitment to raise the "dramatic needs" and voices of developing countries.
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WEF president Borge Brende said that despite many difficult issues facing the global community, progress had been made at the meeting, especially in tackling the most urgent crises of food, energy and climate.
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President Volodymyr Zelenskiy told WEF delegates by video link that Western supplies of tanks and air defence units should come more quickly and be delivered faster than Russia was able to carry out its own attacks.
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Antonio Guterres made the remarks while speaking to reporters during his annual end-of-year conference in New York on Monday.
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"I am not optimistic about the possibility of effective peace talks at the immediate future. I do believe that the military confrontation will go on and I think we will have still to wait a moment in which serious negotiations for peace will be possible," Guterres said Monday.
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Addressing journalists at his end of year press conference here, Guterres said climate change is an area where good news can be hard to find.
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Guterres was responding to a question during his end of the year press conference on whether he thinks Twitter's owner Elon Musk was a threat to free speech and would he be relieved if the billionaire stepped down as head of the social media platform.
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India officially assumed the G20 presidency on December 1.
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Defence Minister Rajnath Singh said in Parliament on Tuesday that Chinese troops tried to "unilaterally" change the status quo along the Line of Actual Control (LAC) in the Yangtse area of Arunachal Pradesh's Tawang sector on December 9, but the Indian Army compelled them to retreat by its "firm and resolute" response.
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UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres earlier issued a statement strongly condemning North Korea's ICBM launch on Friday and reiterating his call on the North to "to immediately desist from taking any further provocative actions."
