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World leaders must show us the money to hit goals on poverty, inequality: U.N. adviser
By Belinda Goldsmith LONDON (Thomson Reuters Foundation) – World leaders need to ramp up investment to achieve a set of global goals agreed a year ago to combat poverty, inequality, and make the world a safer place by 2030, according to a key adviser on the United Nation’s blueprint for the future. Jeffrey Sachs, a…
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U.N. Syria envoy says downing of Russian jet ‘did not help’ peace process
STOCKHOLM (Reuters) – Turkey’s downing of a Russian jet near the Syrian border earlier this week risks harming the Syrian peace process, the United Nation’s top Syria diplomat said on Friday, speaking in Stockholm. “It certainly did not help… there is a likelihood of it complicating this,” U.N. envoy Staffan de Mistura said about political…