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Arab leaders are not happy with the resolution drafted by France and the United States. They believe the current proposal favors Israel, and they're urging the United Nations to make changes.

For more on the challenges of supporting internally displaced persons in Iraq, Robert Siegel speaks with Kieran Dwyer, the spokesman for the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs. Dwyer responds to criticisms of the U.N. agencies trying to help.

The United Nations agrees to look into charges of fraud in Afghanistan's presidential election. Before the investigation was announced, rivals of interim President Hamid Karzai had threatened to reject the vote. Hear NPR's Melissa Block and NPR's Philip Reeves.

A delegation from the U.N. has returned from Bangladesh and Myanmar where they were looking into the persecution of the Rohingya people. Steve Inskeep speaks with Human Rights Watch's Kenneth Roth.

For the first time, the United Nations has put forward a political declaration pledging to address dementia. Will it make a difference?

This week, the United Nations pleaded for more aid to Sudan, after nearly 10 months of war. U.S. Ambassador to the U.N. Linda Thomas-Greenfield is working to draw more attention to the crisis there.

KEN TUCKER reviews ZZ Top''s new record "Antenna" (RCA).

Also: Islamic State militants are surrounded in Raqqa, Syria; the latest on California's wildfires; and the plague outbreak is getting worse in Madagascar.

The U.N. official in charge of coordinating the removal of Syria's chemical stockpile said they found discrepancies in the country's accounting of its arsenal.

Xi traveled to Pyongyang on Monday in a likely attempt to reassert China's unique influence over its socialist neighbor.