UNITED NATIONS: United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres on Wednesday (Thursday in Manila) called for taxation on oil and gasoline firms' windfall earnings to ease the impact of a growing energy crisis.

"It is immoral for oil and gas companies to be making record profits from this energy crisis on the backs of the poorest people and communities and at a massive cost to the climate," Guterres said at the launch of the third report of his Global Crisis Response Group on Food, Energy and Finance over the Ukraine war.

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