Because the world convulses in battle and contentiousness, its leaders convene on the UN to determine it out

UNITED NATIONS (AP) — World leaders start convening Monday at one of the crucial unstable moments within the United Nations’ 80-year historical past, and the challenges they face are as dire as ever if no more so: unyielding wars in Gaza and Ukraine, escalating modifications within the U.S. strategy to the world, hungry folks in all places and applied sciences which are advancing sooner than the understanding of easy methods to handle them.

The United Nations itself, which emerged from World Battle II’s rubble on the premise that nations would work collectively to deal with political, social and monetary points, is in disaster itself. As Secretary-Normal Antonio Guterres mentioned final week: “Worldwide cooperation is straining beneath pressures unseen in our lifetimes.”