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UN approves new sustainable development goals

September 25, 2015 at 20:15 clock Last updated BST

Executives from nearly 200 countries gathered in New York to approve a new set of ambitious targets for combating poverty, hunger, climate change and other global issues.

Sustainable Development Goals or replaced ODS United Nations Millennium Development, which expired this year.

The BBC's Nick Bryant reports in New York.

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