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NPR's Vicki O'Hara reports the US is facing the consequences of failing to pay its dues to the United Nations... and cutting its voluntary funding of UN programs. UN and U-S officials say Scandinavian countries may challenge the US for leadership of the huge UN development program... a powerful position that influences foreign aid policy... and UN reform efforts.

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.

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.

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.

Brooke talks with a U.N. official who provides an eyewitness description of yesterday's Iraqi attack on the northern Iraqi city of Irbil. He says it appears Iraqi troops are withdrawing from the city, where calm now prevails.

Those Darlins hooked up at the Southern Girls Rock 'n' Roll Camp, which bassist Kelley Darlin founded in 2003. Critic Robert Christgau is glad to see the band finally playing rock, as well.