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The head of the World Meteorological Organization Petteri Taalas says levels of carbon dioxide, one of the most common greenhouse gases in the atmosphere, hit a record high last year. The WMO's main annual Greenhouse Gas Bulletin listed the atmospheric concentration of CO2 in 2018 at 407.8 parts per million, up from 405.5 parts per million (ppm) in 2017. SOUNDBITE
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
The UN considers that there is a "strong probability" that the children's hospital in Kyiv was hit by a "direct hit" from a Russian missile, according to the representative of the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights in Ukraine, who speaks remotly during a UN press briefing in Geneva. SOUNDBITE
Police officers fire tear gas at protestors to clear roadblocks in New Caledonia's Noumea, as France's prime minister warned the situation in the French Pacific territory was "extremely fragile". IMAGES
The residents of Blendecques, a town in northern France, are trying to cope with further flooding caused by the 'exceptional flooding of the Aa', two months after the November floods. IMAGES
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