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NPR's Melissa Block speaks with United Nations Special Envoy Staffan de Mistura about creating a peace process in Syria. He says there is a new "sense of urgency" by many parties to end the conflict.

Examine Eleanor’s role as civil rights and U.N champion after FDR’s death.

The United Arab Emirates is a major oil producing nation, and that's drawing attention to the role oil and gas has at this year's COP28 climate negotiations.

Also: Tracing the contradictory timeline of ex-White House staffer Rob Porter; South African President Jacob Zuma faces a no-confidence vote by parliament; and a Mt. Hood climber is killed in a fall.

Jurors are set to begin deliberations in the trial of Donald Trump's former campaign chairman Paul Manafort after prosecutors and defense attorneys delivered their closing arguments Wednesday.

The U.N. says it's too early to determine the full impact of coronavirus lockdowns and other measures. But it says the virus could cause between 83 million and 132 million people to go hungry.

The United Nations is having a high-level climate meeting ahead of the end-of-year meeting in Paris that will hopefully result in a major new agreement to rein in greenhouse gases.

After a five-month probe of Khashoggi's death, a special U.N. investigator concluded it was "inconceivable that an operation of this scale could be implemented without the Crown Prince being aware."

Humans are threatening the natural world as we know it. NPR's Rachel Martin talks to marine biologist Dr. David Obura, one of the lead authors of the U.N. report.

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