Scolding the powerful and the power-hungry, the United Nations secretary general, Ban Ki-moon, opened the 69th annual session of the General Assembly on Wednesday morning, in a 13-minute speech that rued the state of the world, from the conflict in Ukraine to the bombing of United Nations schools in Gaza to beheadings in Iraq and Syria - all before warning of the Ebola outbreak.
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United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon opens the 69th Session of the United Nations General Assembly at United Nations Headquarters on Sept. 24, 2014 in New York City.
