UNITED NATIONS: Secretary-General Antonio Guterres warned the U.N.s first-ever virtual meeting of global leaders Tuesday that the world is facing an epochal health crisis, the biggest economic calamity and job losses since the Great Depression, threats to human rights and worries of a new Cold War between the U.S. and China.
In his grim state of the world speech to the U.N. General Assemblys annual high-level meeting, the U.N. chief said that the coronavirus that brought the world to its knees was but a dress rehearsal for the world of challenges to come.
He called for global unity, first and foremost to fight the pandemic, and sharply criticized populism and nationalism for failing to contain the virus, and for often making things worse.
Guterres called for a global cease-fire on March 23 to tackle the pandemic, and…