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1. WHO releases first global guidelines on child obesity as cases surge
   Child and adolescent obesity has quadrupled since 1990, rising from two per cent to around eight per cent of youngsters in the five-to-19 age group, according to the UN World Health Organization (WHO).  
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2. ‘Rocket revolution’ opens access to space
   For a long time, launching something beyond Earth was reserved for a relatively small number of national space programmes. That is changing.
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3. UN upholds housing as a human right on World Habitat Day
   Representatives from governments, civil society and academia meeting in Muscat, Oman on Monday called for urgent action to address a global housing crisis affecting nearly 3.4 billion people.
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4. Security, sacrifice or opportunity: Visions differ over effective climate action
   Should the world move away sharply from fossil fuels, or manage a slower, more careful retreat? 
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5. Extreme heat making pregnancy a ‘new fault line’ in climate crisis
   Pregnancy and childbirth have become a “new fault line in the global climate crisis” as extreme heat worsens, the head of the UN climate action body (UNFCCC) warned on Monday, calling for maternal and newborn health to be built into countries’ climate plans. 
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6. ‘The clock on AI regulation is ticking’, warns UN rights chief
   The world is running out of time to put guardrails on artificial intelligence, UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Volker Türk warned Monday, as a “ruthless race” between companies and countries raises concerns about human safety and even humanity’s survival.
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7. Beyond the Moon: Space Week around the world
   Right after the Soviet Union launched Sputnik in 1957, UNOOSA, the UN Office for Outer Space Affairs, was established and has since been monitoring developments across more than 77 successful lunar missions and other journeys while also taking a lead role in the annual World Space Week, which runs f
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8. Rotting food waste emits 5 times more greenhouse gases than planes
   Rotting food waste is causing up to 10 per cent of total global greenhouse gas emissions – five times more than the entire aviation sector, the UN’s environment agency warned this week.
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9. ‘I have not lost my dreams’: Refugee education funding cuts threaten millions
   A teenage girl who fled war-torn Sudan for neighbouring Egypt and hopes to pursue a technology degree is an example of why countries must ensure that young refugees can continue to learn.
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10. ‘Money alone won’t get us there’: UN steps up aid for 12 forgotten crises
    Getting aid to people in the world’s most neglected emergencies takes more than money. It takes open roads, open borders and leaders willing to help it reach those in dire need.
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11. Global life expectancy bounces back to near pre-pandemic levels, WHO says
    People around the world are living longer again, with global life expectancy almost fully recovered from the disruption of the COVID-19 pandemic, the World Health Organization (WHO) said on Friday.
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12. Collective action needed to tackle global information crisis, UN-led dialogue hears
    Governments, UN entities, civil society, media, academia and the private sector have called for stronger cooperation and practical action to respond to a rapidly changing global information landscape.
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13. World News in Brief: Cycle of violence continues in Haiti, seafarer deaths off Somalia, food insecurity in the Middle East
    Haitians remain in the grip of lethal gang violence as it continues to “adapt and expand”, the UN’s top rights official, Volker Türk, said on Friday.
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14. UN Member States weigh latest Security Council veto, this time on Iran
    The General Assembly met on Thursday to examine the Security Council’s latest veto, cast by China and Russia over a United States-backed sanctions panel of experts on Iran nuclear facilities.
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15. World News in Brief: Marshall Islands nuclear legacy, FlyDubai attack condemned, Ukraine update, breast cancer treatment expanded in West Bank
    The enduring radioactive legacy of US nuclear bomb testing in the Marshall Islands took centre stage at the Human Rights Council on Thursday.
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16. ‘Women are not victims’: Türk calls for women to be at the heart of peace and security
    Women must be at the centre of efforts to prevent conflict and build lasting peace, UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Volker Türk said on Thursday.
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17. Who gets to shape AI? UN debate centres on power, trust and inclusion
    Artificial Intelligence or AI – and the technology behind it – is moving fast. The question being asked across the world is who gets a seat at the table deciding how it's used and who gets to benefit.
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18. Could a new global panel defuse inequality’s ‘ticking time bomb’?
    What if the world tackled inequality with the same kind of scientific firepower it has brought to the climate crisis?
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19. Homicides fall as organised crime grows more profitable – and networked
    Homicide rates are falling across much of the world, but organised crime is on the rise in many regions as criminal networks diversify into trafficking, migrant smuggling, and the exploitation of natural resources, a new UN report launched on Wednesday revealed. 
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20. Funding cuts put 8.3 million refugees at risk of losing vital assistance
    Haji Mohammad Shafi spent 44 years in Pakistan before he was forced to leave. He sold everything he owned and returned to Afghanistan with his five children, arriving with almost nothing.
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21. Clean your plate – to reduce food loss and waste
    Food waste is helping to fuel global warming, one half-eaten sandwich at a time. 
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22. LIVE: Weighing nuclear risks amid rising tensions and war
    Amid rising tensions, extreme weather impacts and strikes on nuclear infrastructure in war-torn Iran and Ukraine, UN Member States returned to the core issue of disarmament on Tuesday, closing out the General Assembly’s High-Level Week with calls for greater safeguards.
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23. World News in Brief: Refugee funding, US migration policy triggers ‘cascade’ of rights violations, world forests report, restorative justice in Colombia
    Support for water and sanitation at the biggest camp in the world for Syrian refugees is under threat from a lack of funding – combined with the impact of climate change – the UN Children’s Fund, UNICEF, said on Monday.
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24. LIVE: World leaders take stock of global fight against racism
    World leaders are meeting in the General Assembly to assess how far the world has come in combating racism and how far it still has to go. The Durban Declaration and Programme of Action, the most comprehensive framework of its kind, seeks to acknowledge historical injustices, dismantle inequalities
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25. UN leaders renew push to defeat racism, 25 years after Durban
    “No country is free of racism.” That warning from US youth activist Marley Dias set the tone on Monday as UN Member States reinvigorated global efforts against racism, discrimination and xenophobia with a new declaration.
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26. From energy crisis to energy transition: How renewables are reshaping energy security
    The continuing conflict in the Middle East is disrupting global energy markets and pushing up fuel prices, with knock-on effects far beyond the region.
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27. The Takeaway Day 6: General Debate ends with call to turn words into action
    After six days of speeches from the UN General Assembly podium, one word rose above all others: peace.  This final edition of The Takeaway distils the messages he said reverberated through the Assembly Hall and looks at where the 193-member body goes from here. 
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28. The Takeaway: UN General Assembly debate Day 5
    From artificial intelligence to migration, some of the forces reshaping the twenty-first century took centre stage at the UN General Assembly on Saturday. Leaders wrestled with a common dilemma: how to harness profound technological and social change without allowing it to deepen the divisions alrea
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29. Lavrov issues call for new Eurasian ‘security architecture’
    Russia's Foreign Minister, Sergey Lavrov, accused Western countries of destabilising the world through “force and double standards” in his address to the UN General Assembly on Saturday, vowing that Moscow's “special military operation” in Ukraine would be “carried through to the end.”
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30. ‘Safeguard the postwar order,’ China tells UN General Assembly
    China's Vice President, Han Zheng, urged the world to defend the postwar international order on Saturday, telling the UN General Assembly that geopolitical conflicts, widening development gaps and mounting global challenges make multilateralism more urgent than ever.
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31. Countries adopt global blueprint to tackle fast-evolving crime in digital age
    Countries adopted on Saturday a new global blueprint for tackling rapidly evolving forms of crime, as the UN’s largest gathering on crime prevention and criminal justice opened in Abu Dhabi with a call for stronger international cooperation.
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32. The Takeaway: UN General Assembly debate Day 4
    From the Caribbean to the Pacific, leaders from small island States demanded climate justice, ocean protection and greater solidarity at the UN General Assembly on Friday.  They warned that rising seas are already redrawing national boundaries, while the ripple effects of faraway wars are being
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33. The Takeaway: UN General Assembly debate Day 3
    As the high-level debate enters a fourth day, The Takeaway looks back at key highlights on Thursday, with Israeli and Palestinian leaders presenting divergent views on the Middle East conflict and their counterparts from across the world weighing in on the far-reaching impacts of the ongoing cr
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34. ‘Invest with Iraq’: PM sets out vision for new economic future
    Iraq’s Prime Minister, Ali Faleh Al-Zaidi, said his country aims to exert its influence as an active economic power in the region, and as a bridge for dialogue and cooperation between its peoples.
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35. Security Council LIVE: Rising tide of forced displacement
    At a time when war, climate crises and man-made disasters continue to displace millions around the world, the UN High Commissioner for Refugees briefed the Security Council on Friday. 
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36. LIVE: Six years on from COVID-19, is the world ready for the next pandemic?
    COVID-19 killed millions, shattered health systems and brought the global economy to a virtual standstill. World leaders are meeting Friday to review the lessons learned and cement a new approach to prevention and preparation for the next pandemic. Hopes are high that a World Health Organization-led
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37. World News in Brief, ‘New intensity’ to Russian attacks on Ukraine, Yemen, Gaza and Colombia updates
    Russian armed forces have carried out repeated attacks across Ukraine over the past several days, killing and injuring civilians and damaging homes, hospitals, shops and workplaces, UN human rights monitors said on Thursday.
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38. LIVE: World leaders approve new declaration to tackle rising sea levels
    Sea level rise is among the most visible consequences of global warming, but for some countries, it is an imminent existential threat. World leaders approved a new declaration on Thursday while debating the best ways to strengthen international cooperation and support vulnerable low-lying nations mo
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39. ‘Peace remains only a promise’ for millions in eastern DR Congo, General Assembly hears
    The Prime Minister of the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) cautioned against growing global demand for “blood-stained minerals” in the rush to net-zero, in her speech to the UN General Assembly.
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40. The Takeaway: UN General Assembly debate Day 2
    This edition of UN News's The Takeaway recaps key highlghts at the UN General Assembly on Wednesday, including focus on the war in Ukraine and a renewed push by African countries for Security Council reform.  
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41. ‘Turn what we know into what we do,’ Barbados PM Mottley urges world leaders at UN
    Barbados Prime Minister Mia Mottley called on world leaders on Thursday to turn knowledge into action, reform international institutions and ensure that new technologies and global wealth benefit everyone.
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42. Yemen’s path to stability depends on restoring the state, Leadership Council vice-president tells UN
    The Vice-President of Yemen’s Presidential Leadership Council, Abdullah Al-Alimi Bawazir, told the UN General Assembly on Thursday that his Government had engaged “responsibly and positively” with regional and international peace initiatives and made significant concessions to end the suffering of t
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43. Israeli leader at UN: ‘We’re going to win. We have no other choice’
    Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu used his address to the UN General Assembly to defend Israel’s strikes against Iran as a matter of national survival and described the violence in the West Bank as the work of a few “juvenile delinquents” and rejected accusations of genocide in Gaza as “the greatest
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44. ‘Rising seas are sinking futures’
    World leaders approved the UN Declaration on Sea Level Rise by consensus on Thursday as the UN chief warned that encroaching waters are already threatening the future of coastal communities worldwide.
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45. Right to development: A blueprint for unmet promises
    Ahead of the 40th anniversary of the groundbreaking Declaration on the Right to Development this December, world leaders gathered at a High-Level Week meeting on Wednesday to map progress made and the 21st century challenges still ahead – from narrowing the digital divide to levelling the AI playing
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46. UN health agency calls for investment boost to save young lives from cancer
    More children and young people are beating cancer, but progress remains uneven across regions and age groups, highlighting the need for increased investment to boost survival rates.
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47. Venezuela seeking rebirth after political crisis and devastating earthquakes, President tells UN
    Venezuela is seeking to rebuild after a period of political upheaval and the destruction caused by twin earthquakes earlier this year, Acting President Delcy Rodríguez told world leaders at the United Nations on Wednesday.
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48. Equality ‘ends at the doors of the Security Council’, Kenya’s Ruto tells General Assembly
    Kenyan President William Ruto told the General Assembly on Wednesday that the sovereign equality the UN proclaims is contradicted by its own structures, urging Member States to reform the Security Council and an international financial system “built for another age”. 
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49. Guterres calls on countries to set clear timelines for transition away from fossil fuels
    “We are the first generation with the tools to end the fossil fuel age – and the last who can avert climate catastrophe,” UN Secretary-General António Guterres said on Wednesday, calling on countries to draw up credible roadmaps with clear timelines to transition away from fossil fuels.
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50. LIVE: OpenAI and Anthropic brief Security Council amid ‘real and imminent’ threat posed by runaway AI
    The Security Council has been briefed by some of the world's top AI executives on the huge benefits and huge risks the frontier technology presents. With warnings mounting that the world may be losing its grip on systems built to outthink us, Yoshua Bengio, a recipient of the prestigious Turing Awar
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51. LIVE: Climate change is here - What happens next is still in our hands
    From deadly floods in the Himalayas to wildfires and extreme heat across Europe, 2026 has brought a succession of stark reminders of a changing climate. The task is immediate: Protect people from the impacts already unfolding while rapidly cutting the emissions of harmful gasses driving climate chan
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52. Time to accept ‘hard truths’ so trust can be rebuilt: General Assembly president
    The UN’s survival for 80 years is not, by itself, proof of success, and now, the institution must confront painful truths if it hopes to rebuild public trust, said Khalilur Rahman, president of the General Assembly’s 81st session on Tuesday.
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53. Guterres: ‘Cracks have become canyons’ as world faces four tests of power
    Humanity faces four defining “tests of power” – around war or peace, inequality, climate change and AI – that will determine whether the world moves towards a new era of cooperation or deeper division, the UN chief warned the General Assembly on Tuesday.
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54. Millions of children return to schools that still can’t provide clean water or a working toilet
    A new academic year is underway in many countries across the world, yet millions of children still attend schools where the water is unsafe to drink, toilets are unusable and there is nowhere to properly wash their hands.  
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55. When a country goes underwater: Island States fight for their future
    Rising sea levels and ever-more-powerful storms are eroding shorelines, submerging land and threatening to evict millions of people from their homes worldwide. 
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56. How El Niño offers a test of whether the world can adapt to a changing climate
    El Niño is strengthening in a world that is already hotter, raising the risk of drought, floods and crop losses across some of the world’s most important food-producing regions. But unlike many disasters, this one can be seen coming. UN experts say the months ahead offer countries a chance not only
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57. ‘Ask us first’: Children demand a voice on AI’s future
    The first generation to grow up with AI may also be the last one anyone thinks to ask about it – and that has to change, the UN's top human rights official said on Tuesday.
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58. Choose international order over ‘law of the jungle’, urges Macron
    French President Emmanuel Macron said on Tuesday that the world faces a stark choice: “Do we want to live…with a return to the law of the jungle – or do we want to live in a civilized international society?”
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59. Qatar: Absence of a regional collective security system is fuelling crisis in the Gulf
    The crisis in the Gulf should come as a surprise to no one, the Emir of Qatar, Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad Al Thani said on Tuesday, describing it as the cumulative result of years of delay, crisis management through temporary fixes, and unrealistic policies.
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60. UN rendered unable to fulfil its mission, Turkish President laments before world leaders
    The United Nations continues to be weakened, and those who have tied their hopes to the world body – from Palestine to Sudan – have been disappointed, Türkiye’s President said, while adding that his country is committed to restoring confidence in the Organization.
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61. Why climate action now comes down to speed, finance and cooperation
    Temporarily exceeding the 1.5°C global warming goal set in Paris is widely considered inevitable. The challenge now is to keep that overshoot as small and short as possible by cutting emissions faster, unlocking finance and strengthening international cooperation.
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62. UN panel calls for stronger safeguards as AI agents advance
    The world's first scientific body on Artificial Intelligence called on Monday for AI safeguards to be adapted as current firewalls are “unravelling”. 
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63. ‘We are not powerless’: UN chief urges world leaders to invest in peace
    In a world facing rising conflicts, violence and divisions that are causing great suffering for millions of people, the UN chief on Monday called on world leaders and citizens to invest more in peace.
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64. The right to development: Why equity, not charity, is a human right
    Compare two children born in the same year: one in a country with functioning schools, social services, fair elections and a dynamic economy and the other in a nation devastated by poverty, conflict, climate change or corruption.
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65. The race to build a pandemic-proof world
    Six years after COVID-19 killed millions, battered health systems, disrupted lives and brought the global economy to a virtual standstill, the world is still grappling with how we can prepare better for the next pandemic.
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66. Why the UN General Assembly still matters
    More than eight decades on, the UN General Assembly remains the place where the UN’s 193 Member States come together to debate the defining challenges of the day, from war and peace – to development, climate change and human rights.
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67. ‘Violence will only defer a problem’: UN Assembly President on trust, AI and lessons from the Rohingya crisis
    Khalilur Rahman took the gavel as President of the UN General Assembly's 81st session amid what he calls a crisis of confidence in the organization he has served – in one capacity or another – for 35 years. 
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68. Security Council LIVE: UN peacekeeping under pressure
    UN peacekeepers have increasingly been sent into places where there is no peace to keep – under resourced, outgunned and exposed to violence they are not equipped to counter. The Security Council meets this afternoon in New York to confront that problem, with Secretary-General António Guterres brief
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69. Less than 4 years from development goals deadline, progress shows what’s possible
    For Benin, making progress on the UN’s Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) has meant finding new ways to finance development.
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70. UN Crime Congress: Technology is transforming crime – and the response to it
    Sitting in her Vienna office ahead of a pivotal UN gathering in Abu Dhabi, Monica Juma is focused on a simple reality: crime has evolved faster than many of the institutions designed to combat it.
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71. As freshwater reserves shrink, countries must prepare for a new water reality
    The world is entering a period in which abnormal water supplies are becoming the norm, with river flows, groundwater and glaciers all showing signs of sustained disruption, the UN weather agency warned on Thursday. 
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72. World News in Brief: Winter aid for Gaza, West Bank; Haiti food production; migrant deaths at sea; human rights funding
    The UN Children’s Fund (UNICEF) is seeking to raise $97.5 million to protect 540,000 children and their families in Gaza and the West Bank from harsh winter conditions in the coming months.
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73. Gender equality woefully off track, new UN report reveals
    At the current rate of progress, gender equality would take 171 years to achieve, a new UN report finds as institutions built to advance gains are being defunded and demobilised.
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74. Guterres calls for action as hate speech spreads across new platforms online
    The UN Secretary-General has called for concerted action by governments, technology companies and civil society to stamp out hate speech, emphasizing that “its toxic message is spreading fast and striking deep”. 
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75. New UN system platform puts millions of data points at users’ fingertips, says Guterres
    How do you make sense of a world facing interconnected crises, from poverty and hunger to climate change, if the facts are scattered across dozens of different places?
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76. AI, climate and conflicts top Guterres’s agenda ahead of General Assembly
    Ahead of the UN General Assembly’s high-level week, Secretary-General António Guterres said the world had entered “an era of deep uncertainty” and urged governments to embrace international cooperation to address global threats.
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77. UN report warns of reprisals against those who collaborate in defence of human rights
    Activists, lawyers and others who cooperate with the United Nations on human rights continue to face intimidation and reprisals, according to a new report issued on Wednesday by the Secretary-General that calls for greater protection and accountability.
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78. The world comes to New York: What’s at stake at UN General Assembly high-level week
    Each September, New York becomes the centre of global diplomacy as presidents, prime ministers, ministers and diplomats from around the world gather at United Nations Headquarters.
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79. Who should set the rules for AI? The UN is pushing for a safer digital future
    Artificial intelligence (AI) is advancing rapidly, raising questions about how societies and governments can capture its benefits while managing risks that often extend beyond national borders.
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80. World News in Brief: Shipping alert from IMO, democracy vanishing in Nicaragua, alert over political ‘denialism’
    Amid a rising number of attacks on shipping in key waterways in the Middle East linked to the US-Iran war, the head of UN maritime agency, Mr. Arsenio Dominguez, has insisted that the conflict is not a “pretext” to target “innocent seafarers”.
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81. World fears major war more than any other global risk, UN survey finds
    Two years ago, the idea of a large-scale war breaking out felt like a distant hypothetical to the experts who help chart the world’s dangers. Today it tops their list of fears, according to a new UN Global Risk Report.
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82. Money sent home by migrants nearly doubles in a decade
    Migrants sent $728.6 billion home to families in low and middle-income countries in 2025, nearly double the amount recorded a decade earlier, according to a new report from the UN’s International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD).
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83. Highly persistent toxic waste threatens ‘many, if not all, human rights’
    Poor management of toxic chemicals and hazardous waste threatens “many, if not all, human rights,” the newly appointed independent human rights independent expert on the rising threat told the Human Rights Council on Monday. 
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84. Countries must increase AI regulation to avoid ‘existential risks’: Türk
    Voluntary self-regulation by companies developing frontier artificial intelligence (AI) is “nowhere near sufficient” to address existing harms and prevent advanced autonomous AI models from circumventing human safeguards, UN human rights chief Volker Türk wrote on Monday.
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85. IAEA chief underscores commitment to nuclear safety and verification
    The Director General of the UN nuclear watchdog, IAEA, opened its 70th?General Conference?on Monday in Vienna with a message full of optimism, stressing that despite the many difficulties and tensions the world is witnessing a?“common spirit of dedication”?which still guides their work.
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86. Guterres: Old global order must change as power shifts to emerging economies
    UN Secretary-General António Guterres told leaders of a bloc of major emerging economies in New Delhi on Sunday that a more balanced global order requires an overhaul of the institutions built after the Second World War, including the UN Security Council.
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87. The world just had the hottest August ever
    Earth just had the hottest August on record, according to newly released weather data.
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88. Terrorist propaganda is outpacing global efforts to stop it, UN report finds
    Terrorist groups are recruiting, raising money and even planning operations through propaganda that is now “embedded” in every stage of their work, a new UN report warns – and governments are struggling to keep pace. 
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89. UN climate chief warns political division is undermining fight against ‘economic security emergency’
    The head of the UN's climate body has warned that treating global warming as a partisan issue is dangerously out of step with reality, as he set out a stark account of the economic toll climate change is already inflicting on Europe.
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90. ‘An assault on humanity itself’: Guterres pays tribute to 9/11 victims, survivors and first responders
    Twenty-five years ago, the heinous terrorist attacks of 11 September 2001 against the United States claimed thousands of lives and represented “an assault on humanity itself”, the UN chief said on Thursday.
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91. ‘The water comes up to our knees’: Climate hazards shut millions of children out of school in 2025
    When the creek beside Taudibura Garo's school in Papua New Guinea floods, the water doesn't stop at the gate. It rises through the pit toilets – making the school unsafe – sending the 16-year-old and her classmates home without being able to finish.
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92. Guterres urges leaders to invest in peace as conflicts deepen
    The UN Secretary-General appealed on Wednesday for world leaders to invest in peace as violence, division and conflict exacerbate suffering worldwide. 
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93. Record number of attacks on education, global fund warns
    While September traditionally marks the start of the school year across the northern hemisphere, a staggering 93 million children are not in class at all amid an unprecedented number of attacks on learning, education experts warned on Wednesday.
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94. ‘This is not 1945’: General Assembly president gavels open new session aimed at restoring global trust
    The UN General Assembly gavelled open its 81st session on Tuesday at UN Headquarters as the incoming president pledged to restore public trust in the institution during a time of war, humanitarian crises and intensifying climate change.
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95. Tobacco use can undermine fertility, UN health agency warns
    Smoking very likely makes it harder to have a baby, the UN World Health Organization (WHO) warned in a new publication issued on Tuesday, highlighting that women who smoke have a 40 per cent higher risk of infertility compared to non-smokers. 
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96. AI datacentres pose growing threat to electricity systems worldwide
    Use of data-intensive technologies – in particular artificial intelligence (AI) data centres – is growing faster than electricity infrastructure can handle, the UN’s economic commission for Europe has warned, raising concerns about the future reliability and resilience of energy systems worldwide.&n
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97. Ships and seafarers increasingly caught in the crossfire of unrelated wars
    The global shipping industry is facing a "genuinely unprecedented" convergence of maritime crises, with vessels and seafarers increasingly used as “leverage” in conflicts that have nothing to do with them.
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98. AI: Türk urges action before it becomes an ‘existential risk to humanity’
    UN human rights chief Volker Türk added his voice on Monday to growing calls for greater AI controls, warning that the revolutionary technology could become an “existential risk to humanity” if left unchecked.
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99. Coordinated action on clean air and climate change can net $15 for every dollar spent
    Tackling air pollution and climate change together can save millions of lives, reduce global warming and generate roughly $15 in economic benefits for every $1 spent, a new UN-backed report has revealed.
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100. ‘Advance safety for all’: International police cooperation helps tackle cross-border crime
     As criminal networks increasingly exploit weak institutions and operate across borders, the UN says no police force can tackle them alone.
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