New UN chief aims to make 2017 'a year for peace'

The new United Nations chief Antonio Guterres said Sunday he would like to make 2017 a year to "put peace first," in a message heralding the new year and marking his first day as the world body's chief. The Portuguese former prime minister, 67, took over as UN Secretary-general from South Korea's Ban Ki-moon, inheriting complex crises in Syria, South Sudan, Yemen, Burundi, North Korea and elsewhere. "How can we help the millions of people caught up in conflict, suffering massively in wars with n