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NPR's Ann Cooper reports on the struggle at the United Nations over the selection of a new Secretary General. The United States has blocked the re-election of current Secretary General Boutros Boutros-Ghali, but so far the five permanent members of the U-N Security Council have been unable to agree on a candidate to replace him. There are four candidates from Africa right now, but the US, France and Britain are reportedly using their veto power as permanent Council members to block one or more of the candidates.

President Clinton is among 150 heads of state gathered in New York City for the UN Millennium Summit. It's the largest gathering of world leaders in history. NPR's Ann Garrels reports.

President Trump told the U.N. that the U.S. won't succumb to a global bureaucracy. But other leaders said that working together could solve crises and conflicts.

have begun unearthing a mass grave site in Srebrenica believed to contain large numbers of Bosnian Muslims massacred by the Serbs.

Host Bob Edwards talks with NPR's Ted Clark about the United Nations Millennium Summit. The conference promises to be the largest summit ever held.

The BBC's Mike Wooldridge has traveled with inspection teams in Iraq over the past few days. He reports on what they have discovered.

Biden's speech comes on the heels of Russia's Vladimir Putin giving his own speech calling for a partial mobilization as he faces losses in Ukraine.

NPR's Trevor Rowe reports that after the Gulf War, the United Nations was left with the task of maintaining sanctions against Iraq and eliminating its weapons of mass destruction. Five years later, Iraq's military power has been diminished but Saddam Hussein is still considered a threat to the region.

Secretary of State Colin Powell delivers detailed evidence against Saddam Hussein to the U.N. Security Council. He lists ways the U.S. says Iraq is continuing to violate U.N. resolutions against weapons development -- and details charges that Iraq has aided terrorists. NPR's Robert Siegel talks with analysts Jessica Tuchman Mathews, president of the Carnegie Endowment and with Judith Yaphe, Senior Fellow at the National Defense University.

The UN Security Council failed to pass a draft resolution aimed at pressuring Syria's government to stop its violent crackdown on dissidents on Saturday morning. NPR's Michele Keleman and Kelly McEvers join guest host David Greene to update the vote and the fresh breakout of violence Saturday morning.