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Cuba Hunkers Down As A US Oil Blockade Brings A Humanitarian Crisis

The Cuban government has drastically cut energy and fuel consumption and is downsizing and decentralizing most activity to the local level, where people can walk and use non-fossil-fuel-driven transportation, as the Trump administration blocks oil from reaching the import-dependent country, sparking concerns of a pending humanitarian crisis

2026-02-24 08:55:16 0 Comment 17272 view

UN Chief Urges Renewed Push To Complete Decolonization As 17 Territories Remain

More than 60 years after the UN launched its formal decolonization drive, Secretary-General António Guterres on Monday urged renewed commitment to completing the unfinished business of ending colonial rule

2026-02-18 05:05:20 0 Comment 13599 view

US 'Cannot Defeat Venezuela', Maduro Says Amid Tensions With Washington

Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro defied the U.S. on Tuesday, saying that Washington “cannot defeat" his country, which he said is “invincible” amid the escalation of tensions in the southern Caribbean

2025-11-26 04:04:03 0 Comment 24856 view

Libya: A Criminal Paradise At Europe’s Doorstep

The common image of the Sahel is one of arid lands, poverty, and despair. But this image is dangerously outdated

2025-10-31 02:12:52 0 Comment 25559 view

Climate Science And Early Warnings Key To Saving Lives

No country is safe from the devastating impacts of extreme weather — and saving lives means making early-warning systems accessible to all, UN chief António Guterres said on Wednesday

2025-10-23 05:00:42 0 Comment 28814 view

Intensifying Threat Looms Large As UN Highlights The World’s Growing Nuclear Arsenals

The UN Secretary General on Friday warned a high-level meeting in New York focused on ridding the world of nuclear weapons that the threat is only “accelerating and evolving”

2025-09-29 05:18:24 0 Comment 35839 view

Ahead Of High-Stakes General Assembly Week, Guterres Urges World Leaders To ‘Get Serious – And Deliver’

UN Secretary-General António Guterres has urged world leaders to “get serious – and deliver” as they begin arriving in New York for the high-level week of the 80th General Assembly

2025-09-17 15:00:02 0 Comment 42275 view

‘Landlocked To Land-linked’: UN Summit Seeks To Turn Geography Into Opportunity

For the world’s landlocked developing countries (LLDCs), geography isn’t just a challenge, it’s a costly barrier to trade

2025-08-07 12:10:25 0 Comment 50535 view

‘Plenty Of Fish In The Sea’? Not Anymore, Say UN Experts In Nice

At the Third UN Ocean Conference in Nice, the “catch of the day” wasn’t a seabass or a red mullet – it was a figure: 35 per cent

2025-06-14 08:17:55 0 Comment 42380 view

UN Chief Calls For Major Reforms To Cut Costs And Improve Efficiency

Amid financial strain and growing global challenges, UN Secretary-General António Guterres is pushing for wide-ranging structural reforms to enhance the world body’s effectiveness

2025-05-15 03:21:52 0 Comment 42806 view

Journalism Facing New Threats From AI And Censorship

Countries must do everything to ensure that free and independent news reporting can thrive, the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights said on Friday in a message to mark World Press Freedom Day

2025-05-06 02:44:57 0 Comment 61632 view

External Flow Of Weapons Into Sudan Must End, Insists UN’s Guterres

Two years to the day since Sudan’s brutal war erupted between rival generals who rejected the peaceful transition to civilian rule after the overthrow of Omar Al-Bashir, UN chief António Guterres insisted that the world “must not forget” the suffering of the country’s people

2025-04-18 00:56:09 0 Comment 49737 view