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The world needs an effective and credible UN that can respond to the growing challenges facing us today across the globe.
The report, described as “written by Arabs for Arabs,” had a clear influence on the regional development narrative and the way national elites talked about the problems facing their societies.
After all, delivering education via Internet technologies resolves some core challenges facing Arab countries’ education systems today.
The European Union (EU) and the EMU, in particular, are now facing a serious political challenge, exemplified by Italy’s recent election.
Consider, for example, the biggest challenge facing us, which deserves to be called existential: global warming and climate change.
This would, of course, cement its central role in Palestinian politics – and it would just as surely exacerbate the challenge facing Abbas.
At a time when Asia is facing serious security challenges, this stance could not be more urgent.
With the Netherlands, France, Germany, and Italy all facing populist insurgencies – and at least the first three holding elections this year – the Brexit and Trump shocks have naturally provoked anxiety that the next domino to fall will be one of these EU founding members, followed perhaps by the entire EU.
In this sense, China’s government is facing an important test.
The OIC’s basic documents, such as its Ten Year Program of Action and its new Charter, provide a visionary road map to meet the challenges facing Islam in the twenty-first century.
Now, increasingly, the great divide and the big questions facing us will pertain to the internalities of existence, to the self, rather than to the outside.
But that process is not over, and middle-income countries like China and Vietnam are now facing accelerating population aging.
In practice, the Fifth Committee has exercised the kind of micro-management over personnel and expenditure that ought to be exercised by the Secretary General if the UN is to operate effectively and to have a staff which is up to the challenges facing the organization.
The computer metaphor thus implies that living organisms are material systems that, facing an unforeseeable future, arrive at improbable solutions so that some of their progeny can survive in unpredictable conditions.
Facing economic stagnation and what Palestinian Authority Prime Minister Ahmed Qurei calls “the anarchy of weapons,” a succession struggle is the last thing Palestinians need.
High growth and financial stability in emerging economies are helping to facilitate the massive adjustment facing industrial countries.
The challenge facing Sharia's critics is to modernize Islamic law, not banish it from public life.
One key decision facing Serbia, and its new authorities, is whether Milosevic should be extradited to The Hague.
To be sure, the US is facing a new fiscal reality, and the defense budget must be reduced by $487 billion over the next decade.
On the contrary, we must confront those challenges head-on, including by facing some hard truths and demanding that some difficult decisions are made as soon as possible.
These EU citizens and their families are now facing real uncertainty.
Yet many protected species are nonetheless facing severe threats, owing to habitat loss, illicit trafficking, and unsustainable harvesting.
These concerns are intensified by the political tumult facing many developed countries, including the US itself.
Given the political instability that the country is currently facing, however, such an outcome is uncertain, at best.
But whether he can succeed in the long term with his unconventional approach is one of the great questions facing his presidency.
Nor should fear stop us from saving many more lives by spending the money on less-publicized issues facing the planet.
No president in recent decades has had a better temperament and a clearer vision for facing the world’s challenges than the one that Americans have just reelected.
At a time when the world is facing so many destabilizing challenges, this would not be good for anyone.
And, indeed, the security risks facing Asia are only growing – exemplified in China’s move from military expansion to blatant assertiveness.
I was in China primarily in my role as Chair of the British government’s Review on Antimicrobial Resistance; but I also sought opportunities to speak to people about the challenges facing the economy.
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