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Ex-President Evo Morales continues to influence politics from exile in Mexico City as the interim president moves toward new elections. The death toll has risen to 30 in the post-election violence.

The U.N. Security Council unanimously approves a resolution demanding Syrian cooperation in the ongoing probe into the assassination of former Lebanese Prime Minister Rafik Hariri. The United Nations is investigating Syria's alleged role in the killing.

NPR's Vicky O'Hara profiles Lakhdar Brahimi, the former Algerian foreign minister and veteran United Nations negotiator, who is trying to put together an interim government in Iraq.

Germany's Der Spiegel reported that the U.S. intercepted the communications of U.N. diplomats and bugged the European Union diplomatic missions in New York and Washington.

Audie Cornish talks to Robert Turner, director of operations for the United Nations Relief and Works Agency, about what the organization is calling a "health and humanitarian disaster" in Gaza.

U.N. arms inspectors search two outbuildings of Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein's primary palace. Meanwhile, the head of the International Atomic Energy Agency consults with Russian officials on Iraq. Hear NPR's Michele Norris, Rajiv Chandrasekaran of The Washington Post and NPR's Lawrence Sheets.

Iraq says it is studying a U.N. order to dismantle its Al Samoud 2 missile program, but withholds making a decision on the order. Meanwhile, as the possibility of war with Iraq increases, the Bush administration's new new office of postwar planning scrambles to organize a strategy. Hear journalist Paul Eedle and NPR's Jackie Northam.

The Bush administration is considering seeking a new U.N. resolution that would endorse a broader multi-national force to restore order in Iraq. Hear NPR's Linda Wertheimer and Eric Rouleau, a journalist who is the former French ambassador to Turkey and Tunisia.

A U.N. report on the killing of former Lebanese Prime Minister Rafik Hariri says Lebanese authorities bungled their probe of his death, and demands a new international investigation. Michael Young, opinion page editor of The Daily Star newspaper in Beirut, discusses the report.

NPR's senior news analyst says that even if prospective United Nations ambassador John Bolton survives the nomination battle and is confirmed, it may be difficult for him to work with U.N. delegates who are aware of his lukewarm support in his own country.