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Nobel committee chairwoman Berit Ress-Andersen announces that the Nobel Peace Prize for 2020 is awarded to the World Food Programme. SOUNDBITE
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
"The message the Arab world is hearing is loud and clear: Palestinians lives matter less than Israeli ones" says Jordan's King Abdullah II, adding that it is a "very dangerous message" during the International Peace Summit in Cairo. SOUNDBITE
A day after a controversial decision to ban beer from stadiums at the Qatar World Cup, football fans line up to buy their first drinks at the official fan zone in Doha. IMAGES
The World Health Organisation remains "deeply concerned about the situation in the Sahel and the Greater Horn of Africa, and particularly in Somalia" says Director General, Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus. Speaking at a WHO press conference on Covid-19, Monkeypox and other issues in Geneva, Tedros says "it is likely that many people have already starved to death". SOUNDBITE
The UN's head of the Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) warns that drought-ravaged Somalia was on the brink of famine and time was running out to save lives. SOUNDBITE
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