The U.N. General Assembly has voted overwhelmingly to condemn the 47-year U.S. trade embargo on Cuba, an annual ritual that highlights near unanimous global opposition to America’s hard-line stance toward the communist island.

President Barack Obama is sternly urging Israeli and Palestinian leaders to do more to make Mideast peace talks possible.

President Barack Obama says the United States was slow to recognize the magnitude of climate change, but that Washington is moving swiftly to catch up.

South Korea has sent its first rocket into space from a launch pad in the south - about four months after rival North Korea drew international sanctions for its own rocket launch.

Diplomats say Iran has lifted a ban and allowed U.N. inspectors to visit a nearly completed nuclear reactor as well as granting greater monitoring rights at another atomic site.

South Korea says North Korea has fired a fourth missile off its eastern coast. The Joint Chiefs of Staff says three missiles were fired early Saturday and the fourth at about noon.

President Barack Obama says there is an avenue for peace for North Korea if Pyongyang works with other nations around the world to denuclearize the Korean peninsula.

The newly installed U.S. ambassador to the United Nations says the Obama administration will engage in “direct diplomacy” with Iran.

An Israeli official says Palestinian militants fired on Israeli soldiers from the courtyard of a U.N. school where dozens of people died in fiery explosions.

While the world waits for the U.S. to agree on a financial rescue plan, there is mounting economic pressure, overseas. Many foreign leaders are refusing further help, and say the U.S. is on its own, but there are persistent concerns that if Wall Street fails, global markets will follow. ABC News’ Gloria Riviera has more.

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