The international spotlight is back on Iran's nuclear program ahead of six-country talks in Berlin on possible new UN economic sanctions against Tehran.

A U.S. based rights group is urging Turkey to press Sudanese President Omar al-Bashir, who is in Ankara for a three-day visit Monday, to end atrocities in the Sudan's war-torn Darfur region.

Gaza Strip's only power plant has shut down due to an Israeli border closure that is blocking fuel deliveries. The generating station's shutdown late Sunday plunged large parts of the Gaza territory and many of its one1.5 million people into darkness. As Robert Berger reports from VOA's Jerusalem bureau, the tightening siege on Gaza has raised fears of a humanitarian crisis in the impoverished Palestinian territory.

Afghanistan has ordered a top European Union official and a United Nations staffer to leave the country for threatening national security while EU spokeswoman hopes for a swift resolution to the problem.

United Nations climate panel's chief scientist Rajendra Pachauri and former US vice president Al Gore accepted the Nobel Peace Prize for sounding the alarm over global warming and spreading awareness on how to counteract it.

UN Secretary General Ban Ki-Moon has urged the Pakistan government to immediately release political detainees, including an UN Human Rights expert and restore democracy.

United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon has criticised Tel Aviv's response which includes cutting fuel and power supply to the Gaza Strip.

The Secretary-General also said the UN Human Rights Council must “live up to its responsibilities as the torchbearer for human rights consistently and equitably around the world.”

Bisi Ojediran, the author of the bestseller, "The Governor's Wife", has dedicated his new Peter Abel novel to Dr. Mo Ibrahim.

Darfur will receive one of the UN's largest ever deployments of peace-keeping troops in the coming weeks, the Prime Minister has said.

Several small containers of potentially hazardous chemicals, originating from an Iraqi chemical facility, have been found in a UN building but posed no immediate risk, a UN spokesperson said at the United Nations.

Top Chinese executives to discuss trends in business, technology at United Nations on August 23