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British Prime Minister Tony Blair labels as "deeply irresponsible" allegations that U.K. intelligence agents spied on U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan. Former Blair cabinet minister Clare Short told the BBC she read transcripts of secretly recorded conversations Annan had at the United Nations prior to the war in Iraq. Hear NPR's Bob Edwards and the BBC's David Bamford.

U.N. inspectors are in North Korea to verify the shutdown and sealing of the country's main nuclear facility at Yongbyon. Pyongyang says it shut the country's sole operating nuclear reactor after receiving an initial shipment of oil from South Korea.

Kurt Waldheim, the former U.N. secretary-general and Austrian president, has died at 88. His tenure as Austria's president was tainted by revelations that he had concealed his service in the German army in Greece during World War II, at a time when the Nazis committed numerous war crimes.

The city has been the subject of bitter fighting, with rebels and government forces dividing a place that was once a productive economic engine. The U.N. wants to create a "freeze" on violence there.

Two Cincinnati police officers could still face punishment for using a racial slur. The two were recorded on body cameras using the N-word during two...

Voters in Akron elected three new members to the Akron Public Schools Board of Education Tuesday. One of them made history. N.J. Akbar is the first...

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu reproached the U.S. for abstaining — which allowed the resolution to pass — and accused the Obama administration for orchestrating the vote.

The new target was submitted to the U.N. Framework Convention on Climate Change Tuesday. It is part of a plan for a new international treaty to be hammered out in December in Paris.

From the first openly transgender legislative candidate in the country to the first Sikh mayor of Hoboken, N.J., voters across the nation acted to increase diversity among elected officials.

A U.N. report says there are still some 30,000 ISIS members in Iraq and Syria. This despite assurances by U.S. and other officials that ISIS has been defeated in Iraq and nearly defeated in Syria.