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Tens of thousands of the customized candies were handed out at this week's U.N. General Assembly, printed with reminders about fighting poverty, climate change and global diseases.

NPR's Rob Schmitz talks to the U.S. ambassador to the U.N. Linda Thomas-Greenfield about efforts to remove Iran from the U.N. Commission on the Status of Women over its treatment of female protesters.

U.N.-brokered talks to end the Syrian civil war are taking place in Geneva, but so far the warring sides won't even be in the same room together. NPR's Peter Kenyon updates Rachel Martin.

International Atomic Energy Agency Director General Yukiya Amano says that, "with cooperation" from Tehran, a report could be finalized before January.

We look at how President Trump's speech to the U.N. General Assembly landed Tuesday as a week of high-level events gets underway.

The plan could include cash payments to individuals and communities that have been affected by the outbreak. But it has its critics.

Elderly camp survivors, some wearing striped scarves that recall their prison uniforms, walked to the the Death Wall, where prisoners were executed. Across Europe, officials were pausing to remember.

Ukraine says that in the past 24 hours alone, 14 of its soldiers have died and 172 were injured. The leaders of France, Germany, Ukraine and Russia are trying to salvage a cease-fire.

Sick of the hype that desperate local TV news programs use to try to draw viewers, a station in Louisville, Ky., is making a bold promise: If news isn't breaking at that moment, the station won't call it breaking news. It is part of a new compact with viewers and advertisers not to hype the news.

NPR's Noel King talks to Gerry Bourke of the U.N.'s World Food Program about its decision to switch from cash transfers to in-kind food aid to respond to Zimbabwe's worsening hunger crisis.