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Film critic David Edelstein reviews The Interpreter starring Sean Penn and Nicole Kidman. Edelstein says Sydney Pollack's new film could use a lighter touch.

on the Security Council's hesitance to launch military interventions given its history of messy peacekeeping missions like Somalia. Most recently, the Council has resisted appeals to send troops to aid refugees in Zaire.

Some say they brought a measure of stability. But they also brought cholera — and have been accused of sexual abuse.

The U.N. Security Council unanimously passes a resolution demanding that Iraq disarm and ordering new weapons inspections. President Bush welcomes the development. Iraq is silent. NPR News reports.

The World Health Organization has added nearly 400 more deaths from the current outbreak since its last report earlier this week.

The language in the U.S. mission's announcement led some to misinterpret it as meaning that Washington would reduce its own contribution by $285 million next year.

Israeli airstrikes have hit several UNRWA schools where people are sheltering, the Gaza Health Ministry says at least 23 people, many of them women and children, were killed and more than 70 wounded.

The Vatican has faced two days of grilling before the U.N. Committee on Torture investigating the Catholic Church's handling of cases of sexual abuse by priests.

This month, investigators learned that some peacekeepers were paying girls less than $1 for sex in the Central Africa Republic. It's part of a pattern of abuse. Can the U.N. stop it?

The Sustainable Development Goals refer to the needs a woman has when she has her period but don't use the "m" word.