Diplomats: Portugal’s Guterres tops fifth poll for UN chief
UNITED NATIONS — Portugal’s former Prime Minister Antonio Guterres kept his spot as the first choice to succeed Ban Ki-moon as the next U.N. secretary-general, and was the only candidate to get the minimum nine required “yes” votes in the Security Council’s fifth informal poll on Monday, U.N. diplomats said. Guterres, who was the U.N.