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"The United Nations Security Council, the primary platform for questions of global peace, is deadlocked by geopolitical fissures. This is not the first time the Council has been divided, but it is the worst. Today's dysfunction is deeper and more dangerous," says UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres in his speech to the General Assembly presenting his 2024 priorities. SOUNDBITE
The morning after rioters torched vehicles and looted shops following a knife attack outside a school in Dublin, shopkeepers and handymen get to work cleaning up the burnt cars and broken glass left on O'Connell Street, one of the Irish capital's most famous thoroughfares. Thursday night's unrest came after three children were injured in a stabbing near the centre of the Irish capital, resulting in the worst violence in decades which authorities blamed on right-wing groups. IMAGES
Rescuers in Barra do Sahi, Brazil, work after record rainfalls caused flooding and mudslides that killed at least 44 people over the weekend. Authorities said more than 1,730 people had been temporarily evacuated from their homes while at least 760 were left homeless. IMAGES
Heavy traffic clogs the roads to the worst-affected areas around Turkey's quake-hit Iskenderun four days after a 7.8 magnitude quake hit the country's southeast, as well as neighbouring Syria. IMAGES
The New York Stock Exchange closing bell rings as Wall Street stocks mark a gloomy end to 2022, slumping to close lower in their worst annual showing in years. IMAGES
Global growth is expected to slow further next year, the IMF says, downgrading its forecasts as countries grapple with the fallout from Russia's invasion of Ukraine, spiraling cost-of-living and economic downturns. SOUNDBITE
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