Only 17% of targets to improve life around the world are likely to be reached by 2030, UN reports

UNITED NATIONS — The United Nations warned Friday that only 17% of its 169 targets to improve life for the world’s more than 7 billion people are on track to be reached by the 2030 deadline.U.N. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres launched the annual report saying, “It shows the world is getting a failing grade.”World leaders adopted the 17 wide-ranging development goals from ending global poverty to achieving gender equality in 2015, and set 169 specific targets to be reached by the…