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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
A first delivery of mpox vaccines is expected to arrive in the Democratic Republic of Congo in the coming days, the World Health Organization's chief Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus says during a UN press briefing in Geneva. The WHO declared an international emergency over mpox on August 14, concerned by the surge in cases of a new strain, the Clade 1b, in the DR Congo and its spread to nearby countries. SOUNDBITE
Mourners arrive at the Mohammad Ibn Abd al Wahhab Mosque in Doha for the funeral of Slain Hamas chief Ismail Haniyeh after his killing in Tehran, an attack blamed on Israel that deepened fears of wider war. IMAGES
Humanity is suffering an "extreme heat epidemic," UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres warns, calling for action to limit the impacts of heat waves intensified by climate change. SOUNDBITE
French far-right leader Jordan Bardella and then Eric Ciotti of the mainstream Republicans (LR) came to the Medef to present their programmes to employers' organisations, as did representatives of the other main parties in the run-up to the French general election. (COMPLETES VIDI34XT33W_EN) IMAGES
United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres calls for Israel and Hamas to "go an extra mile" to seal a truce and says a ground invasion in Rafah would be "intolerable." SOUNDBITE
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