In his final address to the UN general assembly, the outgoing US president sought to rally the morale of embattled liberal democracies stumbling under the strains of globalisation, inequality and migration. He accused “powerful patrons” of warring parties on all sides in the five-year war of having “blood on their hands”. But several of Obama’s allusions to domestic political divides were clear references to Trump and his electoral appeal. For his final appearance, Obama arrived late at the general assembly. “We opened relations with Cuba, helped Colombia end Latin America’s longest war, and we welcome a democratically elected leader of Myanmar to this assembly,” he said.

Source: The Guardian September 20, 2016 18:21 UTC