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Aid workers have abandoned northeastern Zaire where they were caring for some 150 thousand refugees. The UN has decided foreign relief staff are not safe even in Kisingani as rebel forces advance on the Zairean military stronghold. NPR's Michael Skoler has been following the events from Nairobi. He speaks with Korva Coleman.

NPR's Sunni Khalid recently visited a Kurdish refugee camp. He'll talk with Robert about the encampment along the Iran-Iraqi border that UN officials said was shelled today from the Iraqi side of the border, killing four and wounding eleven.

Host John Ydstie speaks with the Washington Post's Rajiv Chandrasekaran , about the progress of U-N weapons inspections in Iraq. Today, inspectors entered one of Saddam Hussein's Presidential Palaces, which had been off limits in the last round of inspections. (3:43)

NPR's Sylvia Poggioli reports that U.N. war crimes prosecutor Carla del Ponte is winding up her visit with Serbian officials today. Del Ponte failed to persuade Serbian officials to turn over former president Slobodan Milosevic for trial in the Hague.

The U.N. Security Council votes in favor of a U.S.-sponsored resolution on Iraq. The resolution is aimed at garnering additional troops for peacekeeping duty in Iraq as well as more funds for reconstruction. NPR's Michele Kelemen reports.

NPR's Richard Harris reports on the first major appearance of U.S. diplomats at the U.N.'s World Summit on Sustainable Development in Johannesburg. They pledged millions of dollars in new projects to help poor nations. Critics responded that billions are needed, and are questioning how much of the money amounts to new commitments.

The COP agrees a deal. The U.S. vetoes a ceasefire.

Israel attacks a school. A UN chief wants to tax fossil fuel companies.

It's the seventh earthquake to roil this area in the past 10 days, and there have been several aftershocks. The U.N. has struggled to raise money for Afghans.

Vladimir Putin and Kim Jong Un signed a treaty upgrading their relationship and pledging military assistance if either one is attacked, drawing criticism from NATO, South Korea and other countries.