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The United Nations chief urges world leaders to take decisive action to tackle ever-worsening climate change when they gather at the COP28 summit in Dubai starting this week. "We are trapped in a deadly cycle," UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres says. "The solutions are well known." SOUNDBITE
UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres skewers oil firms for having "peddled the big lie" about their role in global warming, telling the World Economic Forum that they should be held accountable. SOUNDBITE
Appearing at a press conference for the presentation of a key report on the climate by the United Nation's World Metereological Organization via video-link, Secretary-General Antonio Guterres calls the global energy system "broken", urging a swift transition away from fossil fuels "before we incinerate our only home". IMAGES
United Nations Secretary General Antonio Guterres calls on the world to work together to "suppress the global terrorist threat in Afghanistan," after Taliban fighters took control of Kabul, capping a military victory that saw them capture all the country's cities in just 10 days. SOUNDBITE
Fire fighters are busy outside a gothic cathedral in the western French city of Nantes, after they brought a blaze under control. An Arson probe has been launched. IMAGES