If elected, Espinosa, Bachelet or Grynspan would become the first woman to serve as U.N. chief since the U.N.’s founding.
Antigua and Barbuda formally nominated former United Nations General Assembly president María Fernanda Espinosa Garcés as a candidate for the next U.N. secretary-general, adding a prominent Latin American diplomat to an increasingly crowded but still fluid leadership race.
Espinosa joins four other declared candidates seeking to succeed U.N. Secretary-General António Guterres when his second term ends in 2026.
Senate hearing highlights Baltic Sea activity, legal gaps and global risks to underwater cables and energy networks.
U.S. decline over Ukraine war masks faster growth elsewhere as wars and long-term security shifts drive spending.
In General Assembly dialogues, candidates show shared values but offer no specifics on reshaping power structure.
Rather than de-escalation, the Iran war shifted toward control of shipping flows in the strait while talks remain uncertain.
As AI companies debate moral reasoning in AI, the Global South struggles to build credible systems for AI oversight.
Swiss officials argue multilateral institutions must shift from reactive diplomacy to anticipatory governance.
Health authorities have scrambled to trace dozens of people who recently sailed on the Dutch vessel MV Hondius.
Experts say resilience planning has not kept pace with reliance on satellites, cables, data centers and power grids.
