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Nations must act on climate change under international law — if they don’t, they could be held liable.

Nations have a duty to act on climate change under international law — and if they don't, they could be held liable. That's the ruling of the top United Nations court.

NPR Diplomatic Correspondent Ted Clark reports on the second day of the Millennium Summit at the UN, where the focus is on efforts to prevent conflict, especially in Africa.

U.N. Ambassador Susan Rice has come under attack from all sides in her bid to replace Hillary Clinton as Secretary of State. We take look at Rice's record and why her critics seem to be growing in numbers.

Mike Donkin of the BBC reports that a U.N. panel has recommended sanctions against African nations that have gotten involved in the war in the Democratic Republic of Congo.

NPR's Mike Shuster reports that despite warnings about the possibility of genocidal violence in Burundi, and frequent calls for a UN intervention force, the international community has been caught off-guard by the coup there, and is uncertain how to proceed.

Commentator Iain Guest says that the United States has a love/hate relationship with the United Nations these days...mostly because Americans haven't been given a clear idea of how the UN fits in with the foreign policy goals of the U.S.

Brooke talks with a U.N. official who provides an eyewitness description of yesterday's Iraqi attack on the northern Iraqi city of Irbil. He says it appears Iraqi troops are withdrawing from the city, where calm now prevails.

NPR's Trevor Rowe reports on developments at the United Nations today, which hosted the largest-ever gathering of world leaders for the 50th anniversary session of the UN General Assembly. President Clinton made the opening address. Boris Yeltsin of Russia also spoke.

There has been more than a year of civil war between the country's army and the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces.