U.N. agency to report fall in Afghan opium output (Reuters)
Reuters - A United Nations agency will report that opium poppy production has fallen in Afghanistan this year but there are enough stocks to keep supplying heroin production, the agency's new chief said on Wednesday.
UN chief in Rwanda over threatened Sudan pullout (AP)
AP - U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon met with Rwanda's president Wednesday after he threatened to withdraw thousands of Rwandan peacekeepers if the United Nations publishes a report accusing Rwanda's army of possible genocide in the 1990s.
UN reports over 500 rapes in eastern Congo (AP)

Atul Khare, under secretary general for peacekeeping operations, pictured in 2007, said UN troops failed the women and child victims of mass rape attacks in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo in early August.(AFP/File/Adek Berry)AP - The United Nations reported Tuesday that more than 500 systematic rapes were committed by armed combatants in eastern Congo since late July — more than double the number previously reported — and accepted partial responsibility for not protecting citizens.
Obama to address anti-poverty summit and UN (AP)
AP - U.S. President Barack Obama will travel to New York in late September to address a summit to spur the achievement of U.N. goals to combat poverty and the annual ministerial meeting of the General Assembly.
Trial delayed for ex-UN inspector charged in sting (AP)
AP - The trial of a former United Nations weapons inspector in an online child-sex sting in Pennsylvania has been delayed.
Death toll at Darfur camp rises to nine, U.N. says (Reuters)

UNAMID soldiers pictured in El-Fasher, the capital of North Darfur, in July. Rwanda's foreign affairs minister Louise Mushikiwabo has said that if a report accusing Rwandan troops of genocide was officially published by the UN, Rwanda would withdraw the some 3,550 troops it has deployed in two separate peacekeeping missions in Sudan.(AFP/File/Ashraf Shazly)Reuters - The death toll from weekend clashes at a refugee camp in Sudan's violence-torn Darfur region has risen to nine, the United Nations said on Tuesday.
Ten million without shelter in Pakistan floods: UN (AFP)

A woman displaced by flooding looks at her destroyed home in Kharak village, Punjab province, Pakistan. Pakistan's devastating floods have left 10 million people without shelter, the United Nations said Tuesday, as authorities rushed to bolster river defences to save two towns from catastrophe.(AFP/Carl de Souza)AFP - Pakistan's devastating floods have left 10 million people without shelter, the United Nations said Tuesday, as authorities rushed to bolster river defences to save two towns from catastrophe.
UN: No food crisis looms despite Russia wheat ban (AP)
AP - No global food crisis appears to be looming despite a Russian wheat shortfall that has helped lift prices to their highest level in two years, but volatile food commodities markets need better regulation, a U.N. agency said Tuesday.
UNICEF refocuses on poorest of poor children (AP)
AP - The U.N. children's agency says it has failed to reach millions of the world's neediest boys and girls in slums and remote countryside and is shifting to a strategy of getting critical health care services to the poorest of the poor.
Iran hampering nuclear investigation: IAEA (AFP)

A general view shows the Iranian nuclear power plant of Natanz, 270 kms south of Tehran, in 2005. Iran is hampering a long-running investigation into its controversial nuclear drive by vetoing the nomination of certain United Nations inspectors, the UN atomic watchdog said Monday.(AFP/File/Henghameh Fahimi)AFP - Iran is hampering a long-running investigation into its controversial nuclear drive by vetoing the nomination of certain United Nations inspectors, the UN atomic watchdog said Monday.
UN needs far more money for Pakistan floods (AP)

In this photo taken Saturday Sept. 4, 2010, Pakistani villagers walk along a flooded road as floodwaters slowly recede at the mostly agricultural lands of Shah Jamal village, Muzaffargarh district, Punjab province, Pakistan. The flooding destroyed 3.6 million hectares (8.9 million acres) of maize, rice, sugar cane and cotton crops and killed 1.2 million livestock and 6 million poultry, according to preliminary estimates by the U.N. and Pakistan government. (AP Photo/Aaron Favila)AP - The United Nations says it needs hundreds of millions of dollars in new donations to get food, water, medicine and shelter to Pakistanis hit by flooding.
US military chief seeks Turkish support over Iran (AP)

Chairman of the U.S. Joint Chiefs Adm. Mike Mullen, right, and Turkey's Chief of Staff Gen. Isik Kosaner inspect a guard of honour at the Turkish army headquarters in Ankara, Turkey, Friday, Sept. 3, 2010. The United States is seeking Turkish permission to withdraw noncombat military equipment from Iraq through its territory and Turkey is likely to agree to the request, a Turkish Foreign Ministry official said Friday.(AP Photo/Burhan Ozbilici)AP - The United States' top military officer stressed on Saturday the need for Turkey to help enforce United Nations sanctions against Iran aimed at deterring the Islamic Republic from obtaining a nuclear bomb.
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