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NEW YORK (AP) — President Barack Obama on Tuesday will challenge the world to confront the root causes of rage exploding across the Muslim world, calling it a defining choice "between the forces that would drive us apart and the hopes we hold in common." ...

UNITED NATIONS (AP) — U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon predicts that this week's session of the U.N. General Assembly and its sideline events will be among the busiest ever, reflecting "the tumultuous time in which we live. President Barack Obama and more than 120 other presidents, prime ministers and monarchs will meet in New York under heavy security, to discuss crises such as the civil w

UNITED NATIONS (AP) — Amid deep divisions, another vote is due later this morning at the U.N. Security Council on a resolution designed to end the escalating violence in Syria. The vote was delayed Wednesday in an effort to get key Western nations and Russia to find an accommodation on measures to stop the violence, but the move proved fruitless...

GENEVA (AP) — A spokesman for international Syria envoy Kofi Annan says the United Nations hopes to have 30 cease-fire monitors in the country next week. Ahmad Fawzi says seven observers are already on the ground and another two will arrive on Monday...

UNITED NATIONS (AP) — The U.N. Security Council is strongly condemning North Korea's rocket launch and warning it will take further action if it conducts another launch or a new nuclear test. A presidential statement, approved by all 15 council members and read at a formal meeting Monday morning, said Friday's launch, as well as any future use of ballistic missile technology, is "a serious vi

ROME (AP) — Bill Gates has told U.N. food agencies that world agriculture systems are outdated and inefficient, especially for the small farmers in poor countries they are aiming to help. Gates brought his campaign to fight poverty and hunger in Africa and Asia to a forum Thursday of the U...

UNITED NATIONS (AP) — Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon says he's concerned about reported clashes between security forces and demonstrators in Bahrain in recent days. U.N. deputy spokesman Eduardo del Buey said Wednesday that Ban is calling on all parties to exercise maximum restraint, and for Bahraini officials to respect their international human rights obligations...

PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (AP) — U.N. human rights officials in Haiti are accusing the national police department of excessive force, saying there is evidence officers may have killed at least nine people in the capital. The charges are raised in two reports by the Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights and the human rights section of the U...

LONDON (AP) — The AIDS epidemic is leveling off and the number of people newly infected with the virus that causes it has remained unchanged since 2007, the United Nations said in a report Monday. Critics say that the body's aim of wiping out the disease is overly optimistic, however, considering there is no vaccine, millions remain untreated and donations have slumped amid the economic crisis...

NEW YORK — Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad accused the U.N. nuclear watchdog of being in the pocket of the United States and illegally releasing the names of three nuclear scientists who were then assassinated by alleged Israeli-trained killers...