Headlines from the UN

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• ‘Need for UN has never been greater,’ UN chief says, proposing slimmer $3.3 billion budget for 2027
• ‘Overshoot is not a reason to surrender’: UN calls for accelerated climate action ahead of COP31 summit
• Reform, or lose trust: Governments press the UN to reflect the world as it is
• In Islamabad, Guterres calls for end to US-Iran conflict
• Security, sacrifice or opportunity: Visions differ over effective climate action
• Collective action needed to tackle global information crisis, UN-led dialogue hears
• UN Member States weigh latest Security Council veto, this time on Iran
• Could a new global panel defuse inequality’s ‘ticking time bomb’?
• Who gets to shape AI? UN debate centres on power, trust and inclusion
• ‘Ballot must replace the bullets’, South Sudan tells General Assembly ahead of elections
• The Takeaway Day 6: General Debate ends with call to turn words into action
• Sudan tells UN: No imposed solutions to country’s conflict
• DPR Korea tells UN its nuclear status is ‘irreversible’, rejects outside pressure
• The Takeaway: UN General Assembly debate Day 5
• Countries adopt global blueprint to tackle fast-evolving crime in digital age
• ‘Safeguard the postwar order,’ China tells UN General Assembly