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NPR Diplomatic Correspondent Ted Clark reports on the second day of the Millennium Summit at the UN, where the focus is on efforts to prevent conflict, especially in Africa.

A panel says it has evidence that top Syrian officials "bear responsibility for crimes against humanity and other gross human rights violations" during the nearly year-long crackdown on dissent that has left thousands of civilians dead.

Amazon is making it harder for customers to get books published by Hachette and its imprints. Amazon wants deeper discounts on the publisher's books; Hachette is balking. So if you go to the online retailer looking for, say, the new J.K. Rowling mystery, Amazon tells you the hardcover is currently unavailable.

NPR's Michel Martin speaks with Darryl Richardson, an organizer and worker at the Amazon fulfillment center in Bessemer, Alabama about the upcoming vote on whether employees there will unionize.

The U.N. protested Israeli fire on its warehouse in Gaza. Israel said Hamas militants were launching rockets from the U.N. compound. Israel also killed a top Hamas leader in its operations in the Gaza Strip. And there was speculation that Israel and Hamas are close to an agreement on a cease-fire.

The top local stories this morning from KERA News:The two chambers of the State Legislature have until the end of May to work out a compromise budget. The…

Mike Donkin of the BBC reports that a U.N. panel has recommended sanctions against African nations that have gotten involved in the war in the Democratic Republic of Congo.

NPR's Mike Shuster reports that despite warnings about the possibility of genocidal violence in Burundi, and frequent calls for a UN intervention force, the international community has been caught off-guard by the coup there, and is uncertain how to proceed.

Commentator Iain Guest says that the United States has a love/hate relationship with the United Nations these days...mostly because Americans haven't been given a clear idea of how the UN fits in with the foreign policy goals of the U.S.

This week we're hearing from frontline workers and others, offering messages to the class of 2020. An Amazon worker in Boston shares a quote from Albert Einstein that has stayed with him.