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There is an exit off ‘the highway to climate hell’, Guterres insists

adminJune 5, 2024September 20, 2024010 mins

Choosing the iconic Family Hall of Ocean Life at the American Museum of Natural History in New York to deliver his impassioned plea to grasp the solutions at hand, António Guterres warned that we stand at “a moment of truth”. “In the case of climate, we are not the dinosaurs. We are the meteor. We…

Ukraine: Civilians bear ‘unbearable’ toll amid ‘unrelenting’ attacks

World News in Brief: UN ‘committed’ to aid Ukraine, blue helmets exit northern Mali, Chad update

adminOctober 16, 2023September 17, 202406 mins

That’s according to Humanitarian Coordinator Denise Brown, who led a convoy at the weekend carrying aid for around 1,000 civilians to Chasiv Yar, just six kilometres from the frontline in the Donetsk region. The UN aid coordination office OCHA warned on Monday that civilians are facing “daily attacks” along frontline areas in the east and…