The security cordons are up. The streets are ready to be sealed off. Aircraft from myriad nations are landing in New York. It all means one thing for the eastern part of Manhattan: The yearly gathering of world leaders at the United Nations is at hand. The UN General Assembly's high-level leaders' meeting convenes Tuesday in a troubled world arguably even more troubled than last year, when the chief of the United Nations warned that the problems were overwhelming. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres will likely issue a similar warning on Tuesday as he opens the meeting, and world leaders take the stage amid war and rumours of war. The day before the big meeting starts was full of hints as to the agenda in the days to come: World leaders spoke at an event called Summit of the Future, with many focusing on emerging threats, to the earth's climate, on the battlefield and in cyberspace. Iran's president pointed to the deadly explosions of pager and other devices in Lebanon, and the ..
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