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A U.N. backed panel moved Monday to throw out a significant numbers of ballots cast for President Hamid Karzai in Afghanistan's disputed presidential election. The findings were sent to the country's electoral commission, which will decide whether to hold a runoff between Karzai and his main rival, Abdullah Abdullah.

The U.S. is using its presidency of the UN Security Council to focus on food security, as much of the world worries about the ripple effects from the war in Ukraine.

Former national security adviser Mike Waltz, removed from office amid the Signal chat controversy, spent Tuesday in the Senate confirmation hearing for his nomination as U.S. ambassador to the U.N.

The most recent target of the Trump administration's sanctions is a UN special rapporteur on human rights in the Palestinian territories. Israel applauded the move.

As the new year begins, North Korea is signaling a major policy shift, abandoning efforts to unite with its neighbor to the South. It is even threatening to take the South by force of arms.

As the situation in Gaza becomes more and more dire, with reports of people dying from starvation, NPR's Ari Shapiro speaks with Israel's Permanent Representative to the U.N. Danny Danon.

Russia looks increasingly isolated on the world stage. The General Assembly voted overwhelmingly to condemn Russia's attempted annexation of Ukrainian territory and called on it to reverse the move.

South Korea has gone more than a generation without a diplomatic opening with the North and without anything like a hope for nuclear disarmament. NPR looks at how news of a possible meeting between President Trump and Kim Jong Un is playing out among Koreans, especially Korea's millennials.

At North Korea's first Workers' Party Congress in 36 years, Kim declares "unprecedented results" in recent nuclear and missile tests. He's shown greater willingness to speak publicly than his father.

The spike in food, fuel and fertilizer prices sparked by the war in Ukraine is threatening to push countries around the world into famine, a U.N. official warns.