Rights breaches spreading like 'disease': UN chief

Disregard for basic rights is a spreading "disease" with "the perverse phenomenon of populism" fuelling rising intolerance, the UN chief warned Monday as he opened the Human Rights Council's main session.The Geneva-based body was holding its first meeting with Washington's seat occupied by an envoy from President Donald Trump's government.United Nations Secretary General Antonio Guterres's keynote address painted a world in "a time of urgency" with rapidly multiplying threats.