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Human rights and journalists' organisations have called for Turkey to urgently ask UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres to establish a United Nations investigation into the possible extrajudicial execution of the Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi.

As the UN marked its annual Day for the Eradication of Poverty, more people than ever before are going hungry, due in large part to extreme poverty – currently measured as living on less than US$1.90 a day. Famine, conflict, forced migration and climate change are blocking progress in poverty alleviation.

More professional journalists were killed worldwide in connection with their work in the first nine months of 2018 than in all of 2017.

Limiting global warming to 1.5°C will require “far-reaching and unprecedented changes”, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change says, launching a special report that finds some of the actions needed are already under way, but the world must move faster.