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SCOUT· 22%58m·2026-09-24·ScienceWho Runs the World?: Inside the UN’s Secret Leadership Race
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The news cameras may be following rising tensions between President Trump and President Pezeshkian of Iran, but deep in the bowels of the United Nations, fifteen countries are about to choose, in private, the person who speaks for 8 billion people. It’s a process so opaque that even the candidates can't see who is…
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