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UN chief declares 'war' on COVID as India toll tops 300,000 dead

Nina Larson, Agence France-Presse bureaus
Updated as of May 25 10:39 AM

The UN on Monday declared the world "at war" against Covid-19, as India's death toll passed 300,000 and Japan opened its first mass vaccination centers.   Read more »

UN chief 'dismayed', 'disturbed' by Israel strikes on Gaza

Agence France-Presse
Posted at May 16 07:49 AM

UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres was "dismayed" by civilian casualties in Gaza and "deeply disturbed" by Israel's strike on a building containing international media outlets, a spokesman said in a statement released Saturday. Read more »

3 Filipino UN staff who died in line of duty honored

ABS-CBN News
Posted at May 12 12:50 AM

UN Secretary-General Guterres said 336 UN personnel from 82 member-states died in the service of peace or in COVID-19 related circumstances in 2020. Read more »

UN chief calls for more pandemic debt relief for poorer nations

Agence France-Presse
Posted at Mar 30 02:54 AM

UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres has called for new creative financing to help poorer nations deal with the pandemic and prevent their economic recoveries from falling behind. Read more »

UN in talks with China for unrestricted Xinjiang visit

Agence France-Presse
Posted at Mar 29 07:27 AM

The UN is in negotiations with Beijing for a visit "without restrictions" to Xinjiang to see how the Uighur minority is being treated, Secretary-General Antonio Guterres said in an interview broadcast Sunday. Read more »

UN chief criticizes wealthy countries for vaccine 'stockpile'

Agence France-Presse
Posted at Mar 29 05:30 AM

The UN chief criticized the "self interest" of rich countries for building up vaccine supplies beyond the needs of their populations.  Read more »

UN chief concerned by rise in anti-Asian violence

Reuters
Posted at Mar 23 06:42 AM

United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres is concerned about the rise of violence against Asians and people of Asian descent globally during the COVID-19 pandemic, a UN spokesman said on Monday. Read more »

UN chief: 'Barricaded' Myanmar protesters must be safely released

Agence France-Presse
Posted at Mar 09 08:15 AM

UN chief Antonio Guterres called Monday for the safe release of hundreds of Myanmar protesters "barricaded" inside apartment complexes in Yangon, where security forces are violently cracking down on anti-junta demonstrations, his spokesman said.   Read more »

UN condemns Myanmar junta after two killed in anti-coup unrest

Agence France-Presse
Updated as of Feb 21 04:14 PM

(UPDATE) The deaths of two anti-coup protesters in Myanmar sparked fresh UN condemnation of the country's new military regime on Sunday, as mourners prepared for the funeral of a young woman who became a national symbol of resistance to the junta. Read more »

UN chief vows to rally global pressure to make sure Myanmar coup fails

Michelle Nichols, Reuters
Posted at Feb 04 05:58 AM

United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres pledged on Wednesday to mobilize enough international pressure on Myanmar's military "to make sure that this coup fails" as the U.N. Security Council tries to negotiate a statement on the crisis. Read more »

Global investors call for end to seafarers marooned at sea due to coronavirus

Jonathan Saul, Reuters
Posted at Jan 13 09:20 AM

A group of leading investors on Wednesday called for an end to a crisis involving hundreds of thousands of seafarers stuck on ships for many months due to COVID-19, warning that the situation was creating bigger risks every day.   Read more »

UN warns 2021 shaping up to be a humanitarian catastrophe

Michelle Nichols, Reuters
Updated as of Dec 05 07:18 AM

NEW YORK - Next year is shaping up to be a humanitarian catastrophe and rich countries must not trample poor countries in a "stampede for vaccines" to combat the coronavirus pandemic, top UN officials told the 193-member UN General Assembly on Friday. Read more »

UN chief pans countries that ignored COVID-19 facts, WHO guidance

Michelle Nichols, Reuters
Posted at Dec 04 05:36 AM

UNITED NATIONS - United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres on Thursday decried countries - without naming names - who rejected the facts about the coronavirus pandemic and ignored guidance from the World Health Organization (WHO). Read more »

UN chief warns of long road ahead after vaccines

ABS-CBN News
Posted at Dec 03 11:39 PM

UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres warned Thursday that the world could be fighting the aftershocks of the COVID-19 pandemic for decades to come even if vaccines are quickly approved. Read more »

2020 one of three hottest years ever recorded, says UN

Robin Millard, Agence France-Presse
Updated as of Dec 03 02:03 AM

The past six years, 2015 to 2020, are set to make up all six of the hottest years since modern records began in 1850, the UN's World Meteorological Organization said. Read more »

UN chief congratulates Biden, American people

Agence France-Presse
Posted at Nov 10 02:21 AM

UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres on Monday congratulated Joe Biden on winning the US presidency -- and the American people for a "vibrant exercise of democracy."   Read more »

UN chief: Time for national plans to help fund global COVID-19 vaccine effort

Michelle Nichols and Stephanie Nebehay, Reuters
Posted at Oct 01 12:58 AM

NEW YORK/GENEVA - UN chief Antonio Guterres said on Wednesday it is time for countries to start using money from their national COVID-19 response to help fund a global vaccine plan as the World Bank warned that "broad, rapid and affordable access" to those doses will be at the core of a resilient global economic recovery. Read more »

If world handles climate like COVID-19, UN chief says: 'I fear the worst'

Michelle Nichols, Reuters
Posted at Sep 25 02:16 AM

NEW YORK - The United States, China and Russia fought on Thursday during a United Nations Security Council meeting on the coronavirus pandemic after UN chief Antonio Guterres had warned the body that if the climate crisis was approached with the "same disunity and disarray" of COVID-19, then: "I fear the worst." Read more »

UN chief warns against 'new Cold War'

Agence France-Presse
Posted at Sep 22 10:11 PM

NEW YORK - UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres on Tuesday urged the world to prevent a Cold War between the United States and China and halt conflicts so it can focus on the Covid-19 pandemic. Read more »

'Stand together or be doomed': UN calls for 'quantum leap' in funding for virus fight

Agence France-Presse
Posted at Sep 11 04:31 AM

GENEVA - The United Nations on Thursday called for an immediate "quantum leap" in funding for global programs to combat the coronavirus and get the world going again. Read more »