"I am here to sound the alarm: The world must wake up. We are on the edge of an abyss, and moving in the wrong direction," UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres told the General Assembly before the opening of the General Debate.

Japan’s defence ministry held a ceremony in Yokohama on July 30 to name the country’s seventh Aegis escort warship; it has been named Maya and is likely to be commissioned around March 2020.