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The top local stories this morning from KERA News: Texas early voter turnout in this general election is up from the last two presidential elections. 46…

COP 28 is now underway in the United Arab Emirates. Some critics question the choice to hold the UN Climate Conference in one of the world's leading oil producing countries.

May was the deadliest month recorded by the United Nations since June 2008.

The top local stories this evening from KERA News:Energy Secretary Rick Perry says the country’s growing stockpile of nuclear waste is a pressing problem.…

U.N. Secretary General António Guterres was in Moscow Tuesday for talks with Russian President Putin and his foreign minister. The focus: U.N. efforts to ease the civilian suffering in Ukraine.

A cholera outbreak in Haiti was likely triggered by United Nations peacekeeping forces stationed there after a 2010 earthquake. A human rights groups wants the U.N. to take responsibility for the cholera outbreak and to compensate Haitian families.

Organizations such as the Jazz Foundation of America and Billy Taylor's JazzMobile are striving to help older jazz musicians in need. Another group supposed to help musicians is the American Federation of Musicians union, but it has been criticized for failing to cater to jazz artists.

Operations against the Rohingya look like a "textbook example of ethnic cleansing," the U.N. human rights chief says. But Myanmar's civilian leader, a Nobel Peace Prize winner, denies the allegations.

In his U.N. speech, President Obama cited improved ties with Cuba as an example of his commitment to diplomacy. But in his remarks, Cuban leader Raul Castro laid out a series of demands.

This week marks the 25th anniversary of the first real web browser, Mosaic, the tool that opened up the Internet to widespread use.