World leaders return to UN and face many escalating crises

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BREAKING: The U.N. General Assembly convenes with leaders in attendance for the first time since the pandemic began. World leaders face a formidable agenda of escalating crises, including the still-raging pandemic and a relentlessly warming planet.

Other pressing issues include rising U.S.-China tensions, Afghanistan’s unsettled future under its new Taliban rulers and ongoing conflicts in Yemen, Syria and Ethiopia’s embattled Tigray region.

U.N. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres, who opens the weeklong event, “will pull no punches in expressing his concern about the state of the world, and he will lay out a vision to bridge the numerous divides that stand in the way of progress,” U.N. spokesman Stephane Dujarric said. Guterres has already demonstrated that in pointed pre-meeting remarks about the virus and climate change.“I’m here to sound the alarm.

 

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“World leaders face a formidable agenda of escalating crises” Shouldn’t they be meeting to de-escalate crises?

the taliban may be ruling in afghanistan but they are not leaders

UN must address this potential crisis. Just less than a month from pulling out of Afghan, US wasted no time in pushing out AUKUS and cultivated another conflict zone. US once again fulfilling its title as 'Most Warlike Nation in History of the World' (Jimmy Carter)

The printers are warming up for those sternly worded letters.

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