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In Borodianka, UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres says that 'War is an absurdity in 21st century'. 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
Faced with the explosion of artificial intelligence, which is arousing both enthusiasm and concern, the UN General Assembly adopts its first resolution on this sensitive social issue. The text, prepared by the United States and co-sponsored by dozens of countries, was adopted without a vote, by consensus, after several months of negotiations. IMAGES
Four months ahead of the Paris 2024 Olympic and Paralympic Games, French Sports Minister Amelie Oudea-Castera inaugurates the Yves-du-Manoir stadium, in the northwestern Paris suburb of Colombes. The stadium, which was the main site for the 1924 Paris Olympics is ready, a century later, to welcome hundreds of participants and tens of thousands of spectators. IMAGES
The United States warns Israel that staging a military push into the southern Gaza city of Rafah without proper planning would run the risk of becoming a "disaster." State Department deputy spokesman Vedant Patel says Washington has "yet to see any evidence of serious planning for such an operation," adding: "To conduct such an operation right now with no planning and little thought in an area" where one million people are sheltering "would be a disaster." SOUNDBITE
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