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UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres warns international leaders of a looming "winter of global discontent" in a world beset by multiple crises from the Ukraine war to a warming climate. "Trust is crumbling, inequalities are exploding, our planet is burning," Guterres says as he opens the annual General Assembly. SOUNDBITE

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