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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
Visiting UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres appeals for "massive" international support for Somalia as it battles a devastating drought and a grinding Islamist insurgency. SOUNDBITE
UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres urges wealthy nations to tax fossil fuel companies and use the proceeds to compensate for damage from climate change and provide relief over rising prices. "Let's tell it like it is -- our world is addicted to fossil fuels. It's time for an intervention. We need to hold fossil fuel companies and their enablers to account," Guterres says in an address to open the UN General Assembly. SOUNDBITE
UN chief Antonio Guterres appeals for dialogue in Venezuela to avoid the political crisis spiralling out of control, after opposition leader Juan Guaido declared himself interim president. SOUNDBITE
The heads of state and government of the 27 member countries of the European Union meet for an EU Council summit in Brussels, with Antonio Guterres attending in his capacity as Secretary General of the United Nations. While the bloc's response to the conflict in Ukraine is set to dominate the summit, EU leaders are also looking for a united stance on the war in Gaza between Israel and the Palestinian militant group Hamas. IMAGES