Global Issues
News headlines for “Geopolitics”, page 33
UN’s Guterres to world leaders: Choose peace and cooperation over chaos
- UN News
The UN Secretary-General opened the General Assembly high-level debate with a stark message: the world is awash with overlapping crises – from wars and humanitarian emergencies to climate breakdown – and leaders must decide now “what kind of world we choose to build together.”
Sudan war: Life-saving cholera vaccination campaign begins in Darfur
- UN News
Amid the devastating war in Sudan, UN aid teams are overcoming major obstacles to curb a cholera outbreak claiming lives across the country, with young children particularly at risk.
Beware Independent Central Banks
- Inter Press Service
JOHANNESBURG, South Africa, September 23 (IPS) - US President Trump’s snide barbs against his appointee, US Federal Reserve Bank Chairman Jerome Powell, have revived support for central bank independence – long abused by powerful finance interests against growth and equity.
WHO Warns of Global NCD Crisis, Calls for Urgent Investment to Save 12 Million Lives By 2030
- Inter Press Service
UNITED NATIONS, September 22 (IPS) - The World Health Organization (WHO) is urging global efforts to address and invest in tackling non-communicable diseases, and that by doing so, can yield economic benefits of up to USD 1 trillion by 2030.
UN80 – Is it time for the Re-emergence of the Global Ministerial Environment Forum?
- Inter Press Service
KNAPSTAD, Norway, September 22 (IPS) - “We shall have to do more with less” was the summary message from a meeting in Oslo, Norway, this spring (2025), where the Minister of Foreign Affairs of Norway, Espen Barth Eide and Guy Ryder, Under-Secretary-General for Policy at the UN and Chair of UN80, both spoke about UN80 and the necessity to reform the UN.
The Humanitarian Sector is at a Breaking Point: Here’s How to Fix It
- Inter Press Service
NEW YORK, September 22 (IPS) - As world leaders convene in New York, September 22-30, for the 80th session of the UN General Assembly, they will confront a humanitarian sector in crisis. With only 9% of the $47 billion requested for global humanitarian needs currently funded, the sector faces what UN Emergency Relief Coordinator Tom Fletcher calls “a crisis of morale and legitimacy” alongside devastating funding cuts. So where do we go from here?
Recommit to a two-State solution for Israel-Palestine conflict, ‘before it’s too late’: Guterres
- UN News
The time has come to free the 48 hostages still being held by Hamas in Gaza and to stop the bombing, massacres and displacement in the embattled enclave, French President Emmanual Macron told delegates in the UN General Assembly Hall on Monday.
World News in Brief: Call for new Haiti force, Ukraine and Sudan war updates, ‘disturbing’ sentence for China blogger
- UN News
Without greater international engagement, Haiti risks sliding deeper into crisis, leaders warned on Monday at a meeting in New York convened to address the country’s security collapse.
Offensive shutters nearly half of all malnutrition centres in and around Gaza City
- UN News
Hostilities between Israeli forces and Hamas have led to the shuttering of almost half of all malnutrition centres in and around Gaza City, the northern area of the Strip where famine was declared a month ago.
SECURITY COUNCIL LIVE: Take ‘immediate steps’ to de-escalate tensions over Russia-Ukraine war, urges Jenča
- UN News
The Security Council met in New York in emergency session on Monday after planes from the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) intercepted three Russia jets in Estonian airspace last Friday, according to the Estonian Government. Referencing the intensifying attacks by Russia on Ukraine and reported casualties inside Russia, “the world simply cannot afford such danger to spiral out of control,” said Assistant Secretary-General Miroslav Jenča. Follow the meeting coverage live below, and UN News app users can click here.
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