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Climate activists protest outside this month's UN Climate Change Conference in Marrakech. Activists and officials are strugling to find a way forward for last year's landmark Paris Agreement on climate change after the US presidential election.

With Trump heading to the White House, global climate activists look for hope in US cities and states

Environment

President-elect Trump has promised to pull the US out of the new global climate agreement. That left attendees at the latest climate talks looking to US states and cities to turn up their game on fighting the climate crisis.

Fighters from Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC),stand in line during the opening of ceremony congress at the camp where they prepare for ratifying a peace deal with the government, near El Diamante in Yari Plains, Colombia, September 17, 2016.

Colombian government and FARC leaders sign a historic peace deal

Conflict

U.N. food plan

Development & Education

Ban Ki-moon Awarded 10th Degree Black Belt in Taekwondo

Sports

The United Nations and the Syrian Conflict

Syria Crisis: Violence Continues in Idlib Province Despite Truce

Conflict & Justice

The UN Secretary General Ban Ki-Moon says Syria needs to fully cooperate with the preliminary accord which outlines the rules for the deployment of a UN observer mission to the country. But despite the truce, attacks are on the rise.

Top of the Hour: UN Speaks on Syria, Morning Headlines

United Nations chief Ban Ki-Moon says the Arab League mission to Syria may be revived after the Security Council failed to act. Russia with China blocked the U.N. resolution last week and Syrian forces are continuing to pound opposition strongholds, including the city of Homs.

UN Stresses Need for Revolutionary Climate Action

The head of the UN announces the need for a “revolutionary” pivot in the way we address our climate.

The World

Is America reaching its Millennium development goals?

Global Politics

Ambitious goal to end world poverty by 2015 gets even closer.

The World

Gore, ban on defensive after leaked ‘Danish text’

Environment

A leaked document on climate change is causing furor and driving a wedge between rich and poor countries at the worldwide summit in Copenhagen. We talk with Andrew Revkin, of The New York Times and Richie Ahuja of the Environmental Defense Fund.