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About two dozen young professionals in Akron spent part of the weekend volunteering to make the city’s data more publicly available. WKSU’s Kabir Bhatia...

President Obama's last address to world leaders at the United Nations also offered an appeal to U.S. voters ahead of November's presidential election.

President Trump is addressing the United Nations General Assembly. Watch his remarks live starting at around 10:15 a.m. Tuesday, September 25.

The evacuation last week of a Syrian town long under regime siege is not the way to end sieges, warns the United Nations envoy and a top humanitarian.

As the United Nations continues its regular five-year review of the Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty, Iran's foreign minister tells conference participants that his country is determined to develop nuclear technology, including a process to enrich uranium that some observers worry could lead to an arms program.

The Bush administration circulates a draft resolution that outlines a larger role for the United Nations in post-war Iraq. It's an effort to convince more countries to contribute troops and resources to the stabilization of Iraq, but the resolution maintains a lead role for the United States in the country's affairs. NPR's Vicky O'Hara reports.

Russia's President Putin hosts a meeting in St. Petersburg with French President Chirac and German Chancellor Schroeder. The three leaders, who led opposition to the U.S. invasion of Iraq, now seek a prominent role for the United Nations in governing and rebuilding Iraq. Hear NPR's Scott Simon and NPR's Lawrence Sheets.

Former Secretary-General of the United Nations Kofi Annan has died at the age of 80. Annan served as the seventh Secretary-General, for two terms between 1997 and 2006.

France, Denmark and Indonesia pledge to contribute to a United Nations mission to Darfur, Sudan. The U.N. will send up to 26,000 peacekeepers to the region in an attempt to end the conflict that has killed more than 200,000 people in the last four years.