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"This is no longer a regional issue," says International Monetary Fund (IMF) chief Kristalina Georgieva of the new coronavirus epidemic, "it is a global problem, calling for a global response." Georgieva was addressing a news conference after the 189 members of the International Monetary Fund pledged to bring all available resources to bear to help countries combat the impact of the coronavirus. SOUNDBITE
Guterres said conflicts in Libya, Yemen and Syria were escalating as gains made in 2019 are reversed in 2020.
The new United Nations chief, Antonio Guterres, warns that the world body faces "very challenging times" and asks for support of reforms to make it better able to deal with them, saying "this is the moment in which we need to assert the value of multilateralism."
UN chief Ban Ki-moon calls for a united global effort to tackle the Syrian refugee crisis, as he opened a conference on securing resettlement places for nearly half a million of those displaced.
Egypt's President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi said "there is no choice" but to create a global coalition to confront the extremists in Libya, in an interview aired by France's Europe 1 radio. Duration: 00:57
A number of London police have stepped back from firearms duties after a fellow officer was charged with murder over the fatal shooting of a young black man, a force spokesman said Sunday. Police in Britain are not routinely armed and the small proportion who are authorised to carry guns are highly trained.
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