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Security in Haiti, where violent gangs control large swathes of the country, has deteriorated even further, with the number of major crimes hitting "record highs," the UN representative to the impoverished nation warns. "The security situation on the ground continues to deteriorate as growing gang violence plunge(s) the lives of the people of Haiti into disarray and major crimes are rising sharply to new record highs," Maria Isabel Salvador tells the UN Security Council. SOUNDBITE
UK Prime Minister Rishi Sunak announces that he is cancelling the second leg of a massive high-speed rail scheme, promising to invest billions of pounds saved in wider transport projects. SOUNDBITE
Indonesian President Joko Widodo officially launches Southeast Asia's first high-speed railway on Monday. The Chinese-made bullet train named "Whoosh" is built to take more than 600 people to and from Jakarta and the Javan city of Bandung in 45 minutes. IMAGES
A representative from the UN's World Meteorological Organization announces during a UN briefing that a new record-high temperature in the Arctic has been recognised, confirming a reading in Siberia last year of 38 degrees Celsius (100.4 degrees Fahrenheit). SOUNDBITE
World Meteorological Organization (WMO) Secretary-General Professor Petteri Taalas says greenhouse gas concentrations in the atmosphere reached new record levels last year, in a stark warning to the COP26 summit about worsening global warming. COP26, the UN Climate Change Conference, is being held in Glasgow from October 31 to November 12. SOUNDBITE
Santiago de Compostela (Spain), Oct 3 (EFE) .- Fifty people gathered on Sunday morning in Santiago de Compostela to burn bills, as a symbolic protest against the increase in electricity prices in recent months in Spain.FOOTAGE OF THE PROTEST.
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