UN chief says power has polarized the world and urges leaders to cooperate
UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres addressed global leaders in a farewell speech, urging cooperation against global fragmentation. He identified climate change, artificial intelligence, and inequality as key existential threats facing the world. Guterres questioned whether world powers will unite to address these defining challenges.
UNITED NATIONS (AP) — In a no-nonsense farewell speech, U.N. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres urged global leaders Tuesday to respond to the defining challenge today: Will the world continue on its path to fragmentation or cooperate to tackle the existential threats from climate crisis, runaway artificial intelligence and intensifying inequalities? At the heart of these crises […]
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