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President Biden urged world leaders to preserve peace and prevent conflict Tuesday morning.

Iraq accepts the terms of a U.N. resolution ordering it to disarm and to permit new arms inspections, but denies it has any weapons of mass destruction. An advance team of U.N. arms inspectors will go to Baghdad Monday. NPR's Vicky O'Hara reports.

A U.N. team arrives in Baghdad to begin planning for national elections. U.N. experts will make recommendations on who gets to vote and how -- questions of increasing importance as Iraqi officials near the June 30 deadline for the return of sovereignty. Hear NPR's Steve Inskeep.

For the first time, the United Nations has put forward a political declaration pledging to address dementia. Will it make a difference?

The UN Security Council unanimously adopted a resolution Saturday to boost humanitarian aid access in Syria. More than 9 million people need help, according to the U.N.

NPR's Ayesha Rascoe talks with Richard Gowan of the International Crisis Group about Russia's place on the U.N. Security Council.

John Bolton, the U.S. ambassador to the United Nations, has announced he will resign within weeks. Bolton's permanent confirmation to the job was blocked by Senate Democrats and several Republicans.

Greenhouse gas emissions will have to drop 40 to 70 percent by 2050 — and then drop even more, to nearly zero by the end of this century — a new U.N. report says.

The World Food Program says it needs $64 million immediately to continue a voucher program that allows refugees in countries bordering Syria to buy food in local shops.