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The UN hosts a conference on ending Cyprus's decades old divisions with the Mediterranean island's rival camps and representatives from its so-called guarantor powers -- Britain, Greece and Turkey. New UN chief Antonio Guterres is attending in his first foreign trip since becoming secretary-general. IMAGES of the arrivals
COP28 president Sultan Al Jaber urges nations to step out of their "comfort zones and find common ground to deliver a high ambition and balanced outcome." SOUNDBITE
Rival Cypriot leaders resume UN-brokered peace talks in Geneva billed as a historic opportunity to end decades of conflict on the divided island, but the outcome is far from certain. IMAGES of the roundtable
United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres calls for Israel and Hamas to "go an extra mile" to seal a truce and says a ground invasion in Rafah would be "intolerable." SOUNDBITE
Philippe Lazzarini, head of the UN agency for aid for Palestinian refugees (UNWRA), arrives for a meeting with UN ambassadors in Geneva on the situation in Gaza. Among those present are Israeli ambassador Meirav Eilon Shahar, Palestinian ambassador Ibrahim Khraishi and French ambassador Jerôme Bonnafont. IMAGES