US President Donald Trump will stand before the United Nations on Tuesday to declare his country top of the world. Trump's political brand is as well known inside the United Nations as his businessman version is to the rest of New York: brash, unabashedly self-promoting, and all about claiming the win. At this year's UN General Assembly, the former real estate tycoon won't disappoint.

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The Nobel Peace Prize-winning surgeon whose hospital in war-torn Congo has treated over 50,000 victims of sexual violence has launched a fund with the goal of providing reparations for survivors of conflicts around the world. Dr. Denis Mukwege said in an interview Saturday that he and his team at Panzi Hospital in eastern Bukavu province could physically and mentally help victims of rape and other abuse, but that the only way to really heal survivors is for society to accept the wrong that was done to them through reparations. Mukwege said reparations can be individual or collective, symbolic or financial, depending on the victim, the case and the context.

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Zarif again denied that Iran had anything to do with the attacks.

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Colombia's president compared Nicolás Maduro to Serbian war criminal Slobodan Milosevic as he goes on a diplomatic offensive to corral the Venezuelan socialist, warning that he would be making a "stupid" mistake if he were to attack his U.S.-backed neighbor. Ivan Duque made the comments in an interview Saturday with The Associated Press before traveling to New York where he is expected to condemn Maduro before the United Nations General Assembly as an abusive autocrat. Duque believes Maduro is not only responsible for the country's humanitarian catastrophe but is also now a threat to regional stability for his alleged harboring of Colombian rebels.

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(Bloomberg) -- A motion to oust Tom Watson, deputy leader of the U.K.’s main opposition Labour Party, was withdrawn after it opened up divisions on the first day of the party’s conference, threatening to overshadow preparations for a general election.The ruling National Executive Committee was due to vote on the surprise move on Saturday morning as delegates met in Brighton, southern England, for a gathering that was supposed to kick start the party’s campaign to oust Prime Minister Boris Johnson.The plan to cut Watson’s position sparked fury from Labour members of Parliament and dominated the media on Saturday morning, eclipsing the party’s policy announcements. The chatter on Sunday morning looks set to be clouded by the resignation of Corbyn’s aide Andrew Fisher, reported by the Sunday Times to have said Corbyn won’t win the next general election.“We’ve had a bad start to our conference,” Watson, who earlier referred to the attempt to strip him of his job as “a drive-by shooting,” told reporters as he arrived in Brighton on Saturday evening. The party needs “to reunite the conference after what has been, frankly, quite a ridiculous start to it and totally unnecessary,” he said.Watson, who was elected on a separate mandate from leader Jeremy Corbyn, has publicly disagreed with the leadership on Brexit policy. He has been pushing for a second referendum before a general election is held and for the party to support remaining in the European Union.The NEC also sought to clarify Labour’s Brexit policy with a draft of a statement that will be put to delegates on Monday. It said that if the party wins a general election it will negotiate a “sensible” deal with the EU within three months before putting it to a referendum, with remaining in the bloc the other option in the ballot.The conference will debate Brexit on Monday afternoon and will vote on motions brought by constituencies from across the country once they have been consolidated in a meeting on Sunday night. The issue came 14th in a ballot of priorities for delegates on Saturday, securing one of the 20 slots for debate.The deputy leader said the move to abolish his post was driven by Jon Lansman, who founded and runs Momentum, a grassroots group set up to support Corbyn’s leadership, and Len McCluskey, leader of the Unite labor union, the party’s biggest financial backer.Lansman said after the motion was withdrawn that he welcomes and supports the party’s plan to review the deputy leader’s role. He also appeared to recognize the division his move had caused.“We need to make sure the deputy leader role is properly accountable to the membership while also unifying the party at conference,” he tweeted. “This review is absolutely the best way of doing that.”The attempts to remove Watson were criticized by prominent Labour MPs including former leader Ed Miliband and Yvette Cooper.Labour plans to use its annual conference to set out its agenda for the expected general election and highlight dividing lines from Johnson’s Conservative Party.“What we need at this time is unity and a focus on winning the upcoming election,” Dave Prentis, general secretary of the labor union Unison, said in a statement. “Anything else is a betrayal of Unison members and working people everywhere -- all of whom are relying on us to deliver a Labour government.”(Adds departure of Corbyn aide in third paragraph.)To contact the reporters on this story: Thomas Penny in London at tpenny@bloomberg.net;James Amott in London at jamott@bloomberg.netTo contact the editors responsible for this story: Andrew Davis at abdavis@bloomberg.net, Stuart BiggsFor more articles like this, please visit us at bloomberg.com©2019 Bloomberg L.P.

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