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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
"Neither the region nor the world can afford more war," United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres warns at the top of a Security Council meeting on Iran's attack on Israel. SOUNDBITE
Israeli Foreign Minister Eli Cohen denounces UN chief Antonio Guterres over his criticism of Israel's Gaza campaign. "Mr. Secretary General, in what world do you live?" Cohen tells Guterres at a special Security Council session on the crisis. SOUNDBITE
UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres says the world is racing toward a climate change disaster and dismissed the global response as woefully inadequate. He says current climate policies are taking the world to a 2.8-degree temperature rise by the end of the century. "That spells catastrophe. Yet the collective response remains pitiful," Guterres tells a news conference. SOUNDBITE
UN chief Antonio Guterres warns that he fears the likelihood of further escalation in the Russia-Ukraine conflict means the world is heading towards a "wider war." "The prospects for peace keep diminishing. The chances of further escalation and bloodshed keep growing," he added as explained his 2023 priorities plan to the UN General Assembly. SOUNDBITE
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