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UNGA address will focus on Covid-19, terrorism: PM ahead of US visit

Climate change will also be a key part of the address. He also said the visit will would be an occasion to strengthen the Indo-US ties

Afghanistan's Taliban want to address General Assembly, says UN

The Taliban stunned the world by taking territory with surprising speed and little resistance from the US-trained Afghan military. The Western-backed government collapsed on August 15

Jaishankar meets counterparts from Korea, Australia on UNGA sidelines

External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar on Tuesday held meetings with his counterparts from Korea, Italy and Australia on the sidelines of the 76th session of the United Nations General Assembly

Biden tells UN that US doesn't seek 'new Cold War' in reference to China

Without mentioning China directly, Biden acknowledged increasing concerns about rising tensions between the two nations.

Climate financing and aid takes centre stage at high-level UN meeting

Bhupendra Yadav, union minister for environment forest and climate change, called upon developed countries to fulfil their promise of the $100 billion per year goal made in 2009

World leaders return to United Nations and face many escalating crises

World leaders will be back at the United Nations for the first time in two years on Tuesday with a formidable agenda of escalating crises to tackle

World has never been more threatened or divided, we must wake up: UN chief

The world has never been more threatened or more divided, and is facing the "greatest cascade of crises, UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres told global leaders on Tuesday

635,000 people displaced in Afghanistan this year, says UN

UN humanitarians said on Monday that 635,000 people in Afghanistan were routed from their homes this year because of violence, with more than 12,000 recently displaced to Kabul

Talks on regional security, stability likely during PM Modi's visit to US

Prime Minister Narendra Modi is scheduled to visit the United States to attend the first-ever in-person Quad Leaders Summit to be hosted by President Joe Biden on September 24

Rich nations to miss $100 bn climate fund goal even by 2025, says Oxfam

Data shows that the pace of boosting the funding slowed further in 2019, growing just 2% to $79.6 billion from 2018.

UN chief calls for continuation of campaign against sexual exploitation

UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres on Saturday took stock of four years of efforts against sexual exploitation and abuse in the UN system and called for the continuation of the campaign

World on catastrophic path to 2.7-degree heating, says UN chief Guterres

This is breaking the promise made six years ago to pursue the 1.5-degree Celsius goal of the Paris Agreement, UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres warned on Saturday.

Work-related deaths kill nearly 2 million people a year: UN agencies

The study by WHO and International Labour Organization, the first assessment of its kind, found that work-related diseases and injuries were responsible for the deaths of 1.9 million people in 2016

UN faces $100-trn shortfall in fight against climate change, inequality

Adding the costs of financing the global transition to a low-carbon economy to limit global warming, and total funding out to 2050 comes in at $200-$220 trillion

4 strategies for a UN breakthrough on energy and climate change

For the first time in 40 years, the UN General Assembly is convening a global summit of world leaders focused solely on energy

Step up climate action by learning from ozone layer protection: UN chief

UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres has asked the world to step up climate action by learning from the success story of protecting the ozone layer

UN chief urges 'rapid' emission cuts to curb climate change

The head of the United Nations called Thursday for immediate, rapid and large-scale cuts in greenhouse gas emissions to curb global warming and avert climate disaster. Ahead of the annual UN General Assembly meeting next week, Antonio Guterres warned governments that climate change is proceeding faster than predicted and fossil fuel emissions have already bounced back from a pandemic dip. Speaking at the launch of a UN-backed report summarizing current efforts to tackle climate change, Guterres said recent extreme weather from Hurricane Ida in the United States to floods in western Europe and the deadly heatwave in the Pacific Northwest showed no country is safe from climate-related disasters. These changes are just the beginning of worse to come," he said, appealing to governments to meet the goals of the 2015 Paris climate accord. Unless there are immediate, rapid and large-scale reductions in greenhouse gas emissions, we will be unable to limit global heating to 1.5 degrees ..

India economy to grow at 7.2% in 2021 but could decelerate next year: UN

The report said that India suffered a contraction of 7 per cent in 2020 and is expected to grow 7.2 per cent in 2021.

UN calls for release of $1.2 bn aid to Afghanistan for food, health care

The pledges in humanitarian aid announced at a high-level conference in Geneva on Monday, include funding for the flash appeal for Afghanistan and regional response

'Serious possibility of complete economic collapse in Afghanistan'

UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres issued a warning against the "serious" possibility of a complete economic collapse in Afghanistan following the Taliban takeover.