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The UN rights chief warns that the world needs to change paths to avoid a future filled with military escalation, repression, disinformation, deepening inequality and rampant climate change. "We are at a fork in the road: We can either continue on our current path — a treacherous ‘new normal’ — and sleepwalk into a dystopian future, or we can wake up and turn things around for the better, for humanity and the planet," Volker Turk tells the United Nations Human Rights Council. SOUNDBITE
World leaders including the Presidents of Georgia, Argentina and the EU Council arrive for a Summit on Peace in Ukraine, hosted by Switzerland. IMAGES
Several dozen British soldiers from the 47th Royal Marine Commando disembark from barges on Gold beach to the sound of bagpipes before a large crowd of spectators who have come to commemorate the 80th anniversary of the Normandy landings. IMAGES
Argentina's President Javier Milei arrives at the World Economic Forum where he is expected to speak this afternoon. The self-styled "anarcho-capitalist" will take the spotlight in Davos after launching a series of drastic reforms in inflation-hit Argentina following his shock election victory last month.a IMAGES
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky leaves a meeting at the World Economic Forum as he makes his first in-person appearance at the annual gathering of global elites in the Swiss alpine ski resort of Davos. Zelensky is on a diplomatic charm offensive in a bid to shore up support for his country's nearly two-year-old conflict with Russia, as the world's attention has swayed to the Middle East amid fears of a spillover from the conflict in Gaza. IMAGES
The world should prepare to face increasingly intense heatwaves, the United Nations warns, as countries across the Northern Hemisphere reel from soaring temperatures. "This is entirely consistent with the science of global warming and IPCC reports", says John Nairn, a senior extreme heat advisor at the UN's World Meteorological Organization (WMO), tells reporters during a briefing in Geneva. SOUNDBITE
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