Although the February 22 report by the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) said Iran is not in compliance with UN demands to suspend nuclear fuel-making activities, several Iranian officials are saying the report has positive aspects and confirms that Tehran has not broken any nonproliferation rules.

Russia's ambassador to the UN has questioned the usefulness of more sanctions against Iran.

The United Nations' nuclear watchdog, the IAEA, has issued a report saying that Iran failed to suspend uranium-enrichment activity by February 21, ignoring a UN Security Council deadline.

The United Nations' nuclear watchdog is to present a report today that is expected to conclude that Iran has failed to halt uranium-enrichment activities, as the UN Security Council has demanded.

A United Nations official investigating hundreds of political killings in the Philippines said he will disclose preliminary conclusions of his probe during a news conference Wednesday.

Iran has given no indication it intends to halt uranium enrichment by today's United Nations Security Council deadline, as Iranian President Mahmud Ahmadinejad vowed today that Tehran will press ahead with its nuclear program.

The U.N. Security Council has authorized an African Union peacekeeping mission for Somalia. VOA's correspondent at the U.N. Peter Heinlein reports the world body could take control of the mission later this year.

Serbian and ethnic-Albanian representatives today opened what is being described as a "final" round of United Nations-mediated talks on the future status of Kosovo.

Police in Kosovo say three vehicles belonging to the United Nations have been damaged in an explosion in the provincial capital, Pristina.

The UN's special envoy for Kosovo, Martti Ahtisaari, is scheduled to brief the Permanent Council of the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe on February 20.

U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon has picked up support from member nations in his effort to reorganize parts of the world body.

The UN Security Council has condemned a recent bus bombing that killed at least 11 people in southeastern Iran.