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UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres toured Pakistan's flood-ravaged Sindh and Baluchistan provinces on Saturday after obliging the world to provide massive aid to the affected Asian country.
UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres urges wealthy nations to tax fossil fuel companies and use the proceeds to compensate for damage from climate change and provide relief over rising prices. "Let's tell it like it is -- our world is addicted to fossil fuels. It's time for an intervention. We need to hold fossil fuel companies and their enablers to account," Guterres says in an address to open the UN General Assembly. SOUNDBITE
Pope Francis calls on the international community to help Pakistan, where deadly floods have killed more than 1,000 people. The Argentine pontiff appeals for "generous international solidarity", and says he was praying for the victims. His comments come as he visited the city of L'Aquila in central Italy, which was hit by an earthquake that killed more than 300 people in 2009.
UN chief Antonio Guterres tells reporters that it is time for Russia to end the "absurd war" in Ukraine.
Commissioner Johannes Hahn says the EU will be ready to raise money on the capital markets by June but cooperation from the 27 member states is required.
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