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The U.N. Security Council endorsed Portuguese politician Antonio Guterres. A former U.N. high commissioner for refugees, Guterres led worldwide efforts to help refugees.

Chinese President Xi Jinping invited Kim for the four-day visit. The two leaders could use the visit to coordinate ahead of a second summit between the U.S. and North Korea.

NPR's Ann Cooper reports on today's gathering at the United Nations to mark the one-year anniversary of the Million Man March. Thousands of African-American men, women and children attended the rally outside the UN called by Nation of Islam Leader Louis Farrakhan. His involvement again proved to be a lightning rod for criticism. As the crowd listened to speakers exhorting world governments to atone for injustices, Jewish groups castigated Farrakhan for anti-Semitism. Mayor Rudolph Guiliani stayed away from today's rally, saying it would be overshadowed by what he called Farrakhan's 'rhetoric of hatred'. Supporters insisted that the rally -- like the Million Man March before it -- was not a referendum on Farrakhan.

During a speech in front of the General Assembly Gunnar Bragi said the conference would focus on violence against women and would be "unique" because only men and boys are invited.

NPR's Daniel Schorr analyses the American obsession with uba 36 years after the revolution on the Carribean island nation.

Trump said he would make Secretary of State Marco Rubio his interim national security adviser. It's the first time since the Nixon era that one person will do both jobs.

United Nations Secretary General Ban Ki-moon is in Sri Lanka to discuss how to handle the quarter-million people displaced by that island nation's 25-year civil war. The government said more than 6,200 of its forces were killed and almost 30,000 wounded in the final three years of its war against the Tamil Tiger rebels, which ended last weekend.

NPR's Ari Shapiro talks with Tom Fletcher, the UN's top humanitarian and emergency relief official, about his first-hand look at what's been called "the world's worst humanitarian crisis" in Sudan.

NPR's Ann Cooper reports from New York that the United Nations Headquarters building was evacuated today after three suspicious packages...two of which turned out to be bombs...were found there today. At least one of the devices was disguised in a letter addressed to the U.N. bureau of an Arabic language newspaper, Al-Hayat. Earlier in the day, two people were hurt when a bomb exploded in the mail room of the newspaper's London office. And, earlier this month, Al-Hayat's office in Washington received five letter bombs. They were among a total of eight letter bombs the F-B-I is investigating. None of the letter bombs in the U.S. exploded.