UN secretary-general António Guterres has expressed sadness over the reported death of at least 34 people in a South Africa fuel tanker explosion.
The UN has urged all countries to step up efforts to ensure the world is equipped and ready to take on the health challenges to come.
The United Nations says it will need $51.5 billion to help 230 million of the world’s most vulnerable people in nearly 70 countries, including Nigeria, in 2023.
Ten members of Lashkar-e-Taiba, an Islamist terrorist organisation from Pakistan, carried out 12 coordinated shooting and bombing attacks lasting four days across Mumbai.
UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres, on Monday, called for added efforts to renew the commitment to better the world for everyone.
The UN chief listed the threats as conflicts and climate catastrophe, mistrust and division, poverty, inequality and discrimination, rising costs of food and energy.
President Muhammadu Buhari has arrived in New York for the high-level meetings of the 77th Session of the United Nations General Assembly.
“Lower the temperature — now,” said Mr Guterres. “Don’t flood the world today; don’t drown it tomorrow.”
Russian President Vladimir Putin praised the late monarch, saying, “For many decades, Elizabeth II rightly enjoyed the love and respect of her subjects.”
Russian shelling of the Chaplyne train station in Ukraine’s central Dnipropetrovsk region killed at least 22 people on Wednesday, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said.
