Antonio Guterres, Portugal’s ex-prime minister who was UN refugee chief for 10 years, led the closely watched first straw poll vote Thursday to pick the next UN secretary-general, diplomats said.

Antonio Guterres is the current United Nations Secretary General, championing human dignity, focusing on climate action, ...

Portugal has proposed former prime minister and ex head of the UN refugee agency Antonio Guterres as a candidate for UN secretary general, Prime Minister Antonio Costa said Friday. UN chief Ban ...

The role of the United Nations should be to bring clarity, balance, and credibility to these debates, not to deepen divisions or reinforce narratives that many perceive as one-sided.

Former Portuguese Prime Minister Antonio Guterres is set to become the next head of the United Nations after he emerged on Wednesday as the favoured candidate among UN Security Council members.

UPDATE: Oct. 13, 2016, 11:17 a.m. EDT After a United Nations General Assembly vote on Oct. 13, António Guterres was officially chosen as the ninth UN Secretary-General. He will succeed current UN ...

The UN General Assembly on Thursday appointed Antonio Guterres as the new secretary-general of the United Nations, in a shift towards a more high-profile leadership of the world body. The former prime ...

UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) - Former Portuguese Prime Minister Antonio Guterres was sworn in on Monday as the ninth United Nations Secretary-General, pledging to personally help broker peace in various ...

U.N. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres should resign. The survival of liberal order requires it. Guterres, like many recent secretaries-general, both confuses the arbitrariness of the United Nations ...

The Security Council today formally chose the former Prime Minister of Portugal, António Guterres, as its nominee to be the next Secretary-General of the United Nations for a five-year term when ...