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  "id": 17212424,
  "title": "The world needs the United Nations more than ever. It needs a new lease on life | Alex Rondos and Mark Medish",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/10/30/the-world-needs-the-united-nations-more-than-ever-it-needs-a-new",
  "topic": "finance",
  "section": "Finance & Markets",
  "published": "2026-10-30T10:00:52.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "The Guardian US",
    "slug": "the-guardian-us",
    "url": "https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2026/oct/30/united-nations-secretary-general"
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  "original_language": "en",
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  "summary": "We need neither ‘peace in our time’ nor ‘perpetual peace’ – but enough peace to keep civilization To save the United Nations from the irrelevance in which it now wallows, the next secretary general will require the concerted backing of the few powers that govern the security council. The paradox is that the great powers who created the institution in the 1940s and recently treat it with a…",
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  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}