Antonio Guterres

UNIFIL commanders deny that Hezbollah uses its soldiers as human shields, as Israel claims. The blue helmets mission has neither the capacity nor the will to engage in combat despite coming under attack

Military sources warn that the withdrawal of UNIFIL troops would remove the only witnesses to the Israeli invasion

The continent needs green energy to ensure access to electricity for its population, making it a highly coveted trading partner in the eyes of Beijing, which is subject to trade barriers by the US and EU

Three reporters have been arrested in three days, accused of discrediting the Russian army and association with the organization of deceased dissident Alexei Navalny

Numerous works reflect the similarities of the current geopolitical situation with the Cold War era in parallel to the Russian invasion of Ukraine

Guterres spoke on the Egyptian side of the border not far from the southern Gaza city of Rafah, where Israel plans to launch a ground assault despite widespread warnings of a potential catastrophe

The resolution aims to close the digital divide between rich developed countries and poorer developing countries and make sure they are all at the table in discussions on AI

The killing of over 100 people receiving aid in the Strip is the latest example of the effects of the organization’s paralysis. Countries in the Global South have criticized the West’s double standards in relation to the conflict in Ukraine

The Venezuelan president held a meeting with his Brazilian counterpart at the CELAC summit, in which he invited Brazil to participate as an observer in the upcoming elections

The International Court of Justice said that because of the ‘perilous situation’ in Rafah, Israel must respect earlier measures imposed last month at a preliminary stage in a landmark genocide case

U.S. Vice President Harris offered a broad defense of the Biden administration’s approach to global challenges at the Munich Security Conference

The world body fires nine employees of UNRWA, its main aid group in Gaza, after the latter were accused of participating in the Hamas attack on Oct 7. Spain says it will maintain funding while the US and a score of other countries are cutting it off

The landmark verdict marks a monumental step in a four-decade struggle for Indigenous land rights and a long, bitter legal battle which has at times spilled into the streets of northern Guatemala

The initiative, which is non-binding, has received more support than the one adopted in October, with 33 more countries voting in favor

The United Nations Secretary General on Wednesday urged the Security Council to force a cessation of hostilities to provide urgent humanitarian aid

‘This is more proof of the Secretary-General’s moral distortion and his bias against Israel,’ the country’s ambassador to the U.N. Gilad Erdan said

The Israeli government’s continual references to historic anti-Jewish hatred makes it harder to condemn the deaths of thousands of civilians and children in Gaza in response to the Hamas October 7 attack

‘We are living through climate collapse in real time,’ said U.N. Secretary-General António Gutérres in a message released to coincide with the presentation of the WMO’s interim report on the state of the climate ahead of COP28

U.N. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres described the U.N. climate change conference that begins in Dubai next week as an opportunity ‘decide the phase-out of fossil fuels in an adequate time frame’

On Friday, the globe hit 2 degrees Celsius (3.6 degrees) above pre-industrial levels for the first time in recorded history

The technological revolution and the shift in global relations are key factors in the destabilization of the planet. Our times are marked by new, devastating wars and dangerous power struggles

The U.N. secretary-general, who came to Portuguese politics as a Catholic activist, has become a powerful voice in the face of international aggression and the climate emergency

UN denounces war crimes in conflict for first time and Palestinian refugee agency warns many will soon starve to death

Israel blocks visas for UN officials after accusing the secretary-general of justifying Hamas for saying the October 7 attacks ‘did not happen in a vacuum’ but after ‘56 years of suffocating occupation’

The head of U.S. diplomacy proposed a ‘humanitarian pause’ to allow aid to enter the enclave, just a week after Washington vetoed a resolution that called for the same measure