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World Meteorological Organization (WMO) Secretary-General Professor Petteri Taalas says greenhouse gas concentrations in the atmosphere reached new record levels last year, in a stark warning to the COP26 summit about worsening global warming. COP26, the UN Climate Change Conference, is being held in Glasgow from October 31 to November 12. SOUNDBITE
New study of sex assault in U.S. military raises concern about retaliation against victims who report crime. Rough Cut. (No Reporter narration)
Donald Trump’s convoy arrives at the Manhattan federal courthouse in New York for a civil case in which the former US president has already been found liable for sexually abusing and defaming the writer E. Jean Carroll. The trial will address how much Trump should be forced to pay for separate remarks he made about Carroll in 2019, as president. She is seeking $10 million in damages. IMAGES
Spanish footballer Jenni Hermoso, who was forcibly kissed in August by the former president of the football federation Luis Rubiales after the Roja women's World Cup victory, arrives at the Audiencia Nacional court in Madrid to be heard by the judge in charge of the case. IMAGES
Images of former Japanese soldier and sexual assault victim Rina Gonoi arriving at Fukushima District Court. The court found three ex-soldiers guilty of sexually assaulting Gonoi and gave them suspended jail terms, bringing to a close a rare case for a country where victims rarely come forward to speak out against abuse. IMAGES
Security in Haiti, where violent gangs control large swathes of the country, has deteriorated even further, with the number of major crimes hitting "record highs," the UN representative to the impoverished nation warns. "The security situation on the ground continues to deteriorate as growing gang violence plunge(s) the lives of the people of Haiti into disarray and major crimes are rising sharply to new record highs," Maria Isabel Salvador tells the UN Security Council. SOUNDBITE
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