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Arab leaders are not happy with the resolution drafted by France and the United States. They believe the current proposal favors Israel, and they're urging the United Nations to make changes.

A roundup of key developments and the latest in-depth coverage of Russia's invasion of Ukraine.

NPR's Ari Shapiro spends a day at the Medyka border crossing to see how the flow of refugees has changed over the nearly three months since Russia's invasion of Ukraine.

The police might have made arrests earlier than they'd planned because the attack seemed imminent. Kim Sengupta, defense correspondent for the Independent, talks about the investigation into the plot to blow up airliners and the belief that the ringleaders have been caught.

The deadliest Hezbollah rocket attack since fighting began on July 12 left ten Israelis dead Sunday morning. The victims, soldiers from a reserve unit, were hit on the parking lot of a communal farm in northeastern Israel. Israel today also continued ground and air attacks on Lebanon, killing at least 17 people.

Amid intense fighting between Hezbollah and Israel, diplomatic efforts to end the conflict are in full force this weekend. The United States and France put forward a proposed U.N. Security Council resolution calling for an end to the fighting and for U.N. peacekeepers to patrol the Israeli-Lebanese border.

Before he opened his own place (a bar and restaurant in Santa Monica, Calif., called Father's Office) Sang Yoon served up gourmet cuisine at Michael's. As our series of summer reading chats continues, he reveals a taste for books about eats.

A medieval mural in the town of Massa Marittima in Tucany, Italy, is causing controversy and amusement: the 12th century fresco, first uncovered only a few years ago, depicts a tree whose "fruits" are very unusual: its branches are filled with phalluses; below, a group of women are stretching their arms up to pick them.

The Day to Day summer travel series continues with another trip -- this time, however, using a very different kind of fossil fuel. Adam Burke skips the gasoline and hops on a narrow-gauge, coal-powered train into an isolated canyon near Durango, Colo.

NPR's Veronica Miller has a cyber twin named "Becky." This "Becky" copied Miller's Myspace profile and tried to impersonate her. Miller reports on her quest to find out who was behind this online identity theft - and what happens when something goes wrong in a system without authority.