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World Service,22 Sep 2021,49 mins

President Biden urges unity in first UN speech

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The American President Joe Biden makes his first address to the United Nations General Assembly amidst warnings from the Secretary-General of a new cold war between superpowers, at a moment when cooperation is needed more than ever. Fears grow of the imminent collapse of one of China's biggest property companies under hundreds of billions of dollars of debt. And the Nigerians rebelling against the cultural pressure to pay to bury their dead relatives.

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