GENTHOD, Switzerland - Iran and six world powers put nuclear talks back on track at a landmark session that included the highest-level bilateral contact with the U.S. in years. The meeting ended with a pledge to meet again this month, but disputes surfacing shortly after its conclusion indicated a rough road to agreement ahead.

Iran accepted a demand Thursday at the talks in a villa outside Geneva to allow U.N. inspectors into its covertly built enrichment plant, in a move that appeared to defuse tensions that had been building for weeks.

Western officials at the session said the Islamic republic had also agreed to allow Russia to take some of its enriched uranium and enrich it to higher levels for its research reactor in Tehran, a potentially significant move that would show greater flexibility by both sides...

Holding aloft evidence of Hitler's Final Solution, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Thursday railed against Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad for his denial of the Holocaust and scolded the United Nations for allowing Ahmadinejad to speak during its opening session of the 64th U.N. General Assembly.

Offering detailed reminders of the war that sent 6 million Jews to their deaths in concentration camps and recalling the agreement within the world body to create the Jewish State, Netanyahu took his turn at the dais to express astonishment at what he witnessed a day earlier.

He commended those who boycotted Ahmadinejad's speech, but condemned those who allowed it...

(CNSNews.com) – As President Obama prepares to address the United Nations for the first time on Wednesday, the tone has been set by top administration officials who are blaming a disengaged Bush administration for cool relations between the U.S. and the international community.

In a speech previewing this week’s U.N. General Assembly sessions last Friday, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton did not once cite the U.N.’s failings or its need for reform as factors in the strained relationship...

The United States has refused to sign on to a United Nations declaration on sexual orientation.

In all, 67 nations have signed the declaration submitted by France. Piero Tozzi of the Catholic Family and Human Rights Institute, or C-FAM, explains the document's assertions. "It basically called upon recognition of two new categories in human rights, one based on sexual orientation and the other one on gender identity," he notes...

As the United Nations on Wednesday marks the 60th anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, pro-lifers will hand over a petition signed by more than 367,000 people urging U.N. member states to interpret article three of the landmark declaration – which upholds “the right to life” – as protecting the unborn child from abortion...

The United Nations is trying to pressure countries into accepting abortion, even
if it's against the constitution and religion of a country. One U.S. congressman
is trying to do something about it.

The move involves countries that have signed the International
Convention to End Discrimination Against Women, which does not mention abortion.
Congressman Thad McCotter (R-Michigan) describes the effort to pressure those
countries as "Orwellian."

Pro-lifers around the world are being asked to make a difference at the United
Nations.

The U.N. will celebrate the 60th anniversary of the Universal
Declaration of Human Rights on December 10. The International Planned Parenthood
Foundation and UK-based Marie Stopes International -- both international
abortion providers -- are waging campaigns to influence the U.N. General
Assembly...

Almost a year after one of the world’s biggest private abortion providers
launched a global “safe abortion” drive, an online petition intended to be
handed to the United Nations in two months’ time has been signed by fewer than
600 people.

Another petition, launched by pro-lifers as a counter-move,
obtained more than 17,400 signatures in its first week...

For the fourth consecutive year, Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad’s plan to
attend the U.N. General Assembly’s annual session is drawing protests...

Five years after bombings forced the United Nations to pull out of Iraq, the world body is back. It announced plans Wednesday to help Iraq rebuild and create jobs following complaints the government has been unable or unwilling to spend its oil riches.

An agreement signed by the U.N. and the Iraqi government outlined a series of steps to help the Iraqis improve spending. The U.N. will also aid in the funding of reconstruction, development and humanitarian projects...