Trump tells UN General Assembly US is ‘the hottest country in the world’

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Trump at the UN: Global leaders become desensitised to same old shock-and-awe tactics This year, the teleprompter was working. This year, the United Nations escalator did not break down at the worst possible moment, writes Washington correspondent Keith Duggan from New York.

A year on from his withering rebuke of the international postwar peace alliance, Donald Trump returned to the big, maudlin building on First Avenue with plenty to say.

He championed the effectiveness of his war against Iran and asserted himself as the central figure as the United States seeks “to reshape the world stage and solve problems that have plagued us for far too long”.