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UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres calls "shocking" a viral video that apparently shows a detained Ukrainian soldier being shot dead after speaking a pro-Ukraine slogan. SOUNDBITE
UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Michelle Bachelet announces in a video message to the Human Rights Council that she will visit China in May. SOUNDBITE
US National Security Advisor John Bolton describes as "deafening" Iran's apparent silence on an offer to negotiate with Washington during a press conference following a trilateral meeting in Jerusalem with national security advisers from the US, Russian and Israeli. IMAGES
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
French citizen Louis Arnaud is welcomed off the plane by French Foreign Minister Stephane Sejourne at Le Bourget airport near Paris, before embracing his father and then his mother, after being held in Iran since September 2022 and sentenced last year to five years in prison on national security charges. IMAGES
Supporters of Zambian President Lungu hold a rally in Lusaka during a tense presidential race, which has been marked by clashes between rival supporters. The presidential election will take place on Thursday. IMAGES.