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Dec 2024
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UN News Today 05 December 2024

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António Guterres calls for ‘serious dialogue’ to end surging violence in SyriaUN health agency green lights first ‘groundbreaking’ TB diagnostic testWorld faces $23 trillion loss from land degradation 
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