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Despite growing international pressure, the U.N. Security Council passes a resolution with only an implicit threat of sanctions if Sudan doesn't rein in the ethnic Arabic militias accused of raping and murdering black Africans in the Darfur region. NPR's Michele Kelemen reports.

The U.N. Security Council overwhelmingly approves a resolution ending more than a decade of sanctions against Iraq. It also gives the United States and Britain authority to run the country and use oil profits to fund reconstruction until a new Iraqi government is established. Hear NPR's Vicky O'Hara.

For the past two weeks, 17,000 people and delegates from 190 countries have been meeting in Montreal to figure out a way to stop the ongoing decline of wildlife and ecosystems.

The International Organization for Migration on Sunday increased its estimate of the death toll from a massive landslide in Papua New Guinea to more than 670.

Linda Thomas-Greenfield, U.S. Ambassador to the U.N., traveled to the southern border of Turkey to observe the flow of humanitarian aid to victims of the civil war in neighboring Syria.

NPR's Scott Detrow speaks with U.S. Ambassador to the UN Linda Thomas Greenfield about the situation in Gaza and the UN resolution

The Israeli Cabinet accepts the U.N. resolution mandating a cease-fire between Israel and Hezbollah. But until it goes into effect Monday morning, Israel is making a last-minute push toward the Litani River. Hezbollah says it would abide by the resolution but will fight Israeli soldiers as long as they remain on Lebanese soil.

The attack on the five-year-old UNAMID mission is the single-deadliest in the history of the deployment.

The U.N. Security Council reports progress on a proposal that would reinstate Iraq's oil-for-food program and speed up emergency food aid to the Iraqi people. Arab governments also ask the Security Council to pass a resolution demanding a ceasefire. Hear NPR's Vicky O'Hara.

U.S. Iraq administrator Paul Bremer says that despite Tuesday's bombing of the U.N. headquarters in Baghdad, the country is not in chaos. Investigators theorize the attackers were either Saddam loyalists or outside militants who infiltrated Iraq. The FBI says it has found evidence suggesting the attack was a suicide bombing. Hear NPR's Anne Garrels.