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The Israeli government formally notifies Jewish settlers in the Gaza Strip they have 48 hours to leave their homes or be forcibly removed. Thousands of soldiers delivered eviction orders, but most settlers have refused to leave.

The U.N. has set the goal of eliminating extreme poverty and reducing the toll of disease by 2030. But there's a surprising obstacle.

In 1957, Dorothy Counts-Scoggins integrated her school in Charlotte, N.C. Now students at her old campus unveiled a plaque to honor her.

Pentagon officials are proclaiming the multinational airstrikes "successful," calling the targeted sites "fundamental components" to Syria's chemical weapons program.

Ocular melanoma typically affects 6 out of every 1 million people, but doctors have found dozens of cases where the patients have connections to either Huntersville, N.C., or Auburn, Ala.

President Donald Trump's run-up to the U.N. General Assembly was a dash on Sunday through two key political states with two world leaders at events that…

Jan Egeland of the Norwegian Refugee Council is on the ground in Yemen. The United Nations is asking for funding as tens of thousands are already starving to death and millions more go hungry.

Leaders are condemning Moscow for triggering a new wave of fears about global hunger and rampant inflation with its decision to suspend participation in a U.N.-brokered grain agreement.

NPR's Scott Simon talks with Sen. Bob Menendez, D-N.J., about the situation in Venezuela and the end of the Mueller investigation.

Syrians are fleeing Aleppo under an intensifying Russian assault. Renee Montagne talks to Alexei Borodavkin, Russia's Ambassador to the U.N., who defends the Russian offensive in Aleppo.