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A United Nations announces the appointment of an eight-member Iraqi election commission, which will direct preparations for a January 2005 vote on a constitutional assembly. NPR's Emily Harris reports.

As U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon demands a global end to violence against women, a 35-year-old is molested and shot in front of her husband and five children in India's northeast.

The U.N. envoy for Syria, Lakhdar Brahimi, quit in frustration over the difficulties of bringing an end to the civil war and the failure of the United Nations to intervene.

De Mistura told the U.N. Security Council he was leaving for "purely personal reasons." In his final month, he plans to make a major push to try to lay the groundwork for a new constitution in Syria.

South Korean officials visiting the White House Thursday said they were passing along an invitation for President Trump from North Korean leader Kim Jong Un. The message suggested that Trump and Kim should meet to talk about denuclearization.

The U.N. has been desperately trying to make the Global Goals "famous" since 2015. Then a surprise tweet from the rapper came along.

The proposal failed to get the necessary nine votes to pass. The Palestinian plan called for, among other things, an end to the Israeli occupation by late 2017.

As the 30-year anniversary of the Falklands war approaches, tensions between the two countries have heightened.

There's been a rare bit of good news in Eastern Congo this month. One of the rebel groups that have terrorized civilians in the mineral rich part of the the Democratic Republic of Congo agreed to end its rebellion. There's still a lot of work to do to disarm the M23 and to keep other rebel movements in check. But this small victory is a boost for U.N. peacekeepers, who are under a new, tougher mandate to protect civilians in the Democratic Republic of Congo. Some experts wonder if this could be a new model for peacekeeping.

With 1.5 million deaths a year, tuberculosis has passed HIV/AIDS.