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Tens of thousands of the customized candies were handed out at this week's U.N. General Assembly, printed with reminders about fighting poverty, climate change and global diseases.

The Security Council unanimously passes a U.S.-British resolution detailing sovereignty and security issues for Iraq's interim government, which will take power June 30. At the G8 Conference in Sea Island, Ga., President Bush welcomed the news. Iraq-related questions have dominated the summit of industrialized nations. Hear NPR's Vicky O'Hara and NPR's Jim Zarroli.

U.N.-brokered talks to end the Syrian civil war are taking place in Geneva, but so far the warring sides won't even be in the same room together. NPR's Peter Kenyon updates Rachel Martin.

The International Atomic Energy Agency failed to conclude definitively that the Islamic republic is engaged in a full-scale weapons program. But the agency said the evidence of hidden nuclear activity is growing, and the questions are deepening.

International Atomic Energy Agency Director General Yukiya Amano says that, "with cooperation" from Tehran, a report could be finalized before January.

A new report by the U.N. human rights office warns that artificial intelligence has the potential to facilitate "unprecedented level of surveillance across the globe by state and private actors."

The plan could include cash payments to individuals and communities that have been affected by the outbreak. But it has its critics.

The Republican congresswoman's nomination had been expected to easily clear the Senate — but Republicans are concerned about holding on to their thin majority in the House of Representatives.

"The world had its say," Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said, calling Russia's push for annexation "worthless."

The security council voted unanimously on a new sanctions resolution Monday that U.S. ambassador Nikki Haley says is meant to starve North Korea of money needed to support its nuclear program.