There’s room for reform at the United Nations, starting with the Security Council, but the organization is doing more good than not, Ted Turner, the CNN founder and the largest individual donor to the UN, said on Tuesday. “It’s the seventh inning and we’re down by two runs,” he said, citing global warming, nuclear proliferation, growing population and environmental degradation. “We’ve already got a catastrophe on our hands.” [...]
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Has his $1 billion pledge to the UN been effective? How does he see the international body evolving? What’s next for Turner, who has made international cooperation a cornerstone of his philanthropy.
Send us your comments and questions using the link below. We’ll get them to Turner. Paul Holmes, Reuters political and general news editor, will sit [...]
