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Antonio Guterres makes the appeal as record floods kill nearly 1,400 people and render more than one million homeless.

U.N. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres called for "massive" international support for flood-ravaged Pakistan while visiting the country on Friday, while Islamabad put the cost of flood-related damage at $30 billion.

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Secretary general says agreement must be secured to commit Russian forces to withdraw and Ukrainian forces not to move in

Delegates from over 190 countries recently gathered in Lisbon for the UN Ocean Conference, the most important event on this issue this year. Opening the meeting, UN Secretary-General António Guterres urged governments "to raise their level of ambition for the recovery of ocean health".

Pakistan is experiencing the most devastating and widespread floods in its history, with the country’s climate minister saying waters have reached across a third of the nation.

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More than 1,100 people have been killed in flooding described by Pakistan PM Shebaz Sharif as worst in country’s history

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