Reuters - Iran's foreign minister and Syria's ambassador to Sweden are among the officials expected to attend next week's ministerial meeting of the Iraq Compact Annual Review, U.N. officials said on Friday.

Reuters - Up to 60 heavily armed men on horseback ambushed a patrol of peacekeepers in Darfur, in a new attack on international forces in Sudan's strife-torn west, the United Nations said on Friday.

Reuters - Disaster relief officials said there was "no time to lose" to help Myanmar's cyclone survivors after the secretive military government promised the United Nations it would allow in more aid workers.

AP - More than 45 countries and regional organizations have signed up to attend a donors conference in Myanmar on Sunday to mobilize funds for immediate humanitarian assistance for the survivors of Cyclone Nargis, the United Nations said Friday.

AFP - A former Olympic gymnast and US officials on Thursday urged lawmakers to ratify the UNESCO International Convention Against Doping in Sports ahead of the Beijing Olympics in August.

AFP - The UN Security Council on Thursday welcomed the breakthrough deal reached by Lebanon's rival factions to end an 18-month political standoff and elect a new president.

Reuters - The U.N. Security Council on Thursday welcomed a Lebanese peace deal brokered by Qatar, an agreement that may have averted a new civil war in the Middle East.

AP - The U.N. Security Council is giving strong backing to the deal to end Lebanon's 18-month political crisis.

AP - U.N. experts investigating violations of an arms embargo against Somalia report that countries and private traders are supplying weapons to warlords and militants, South Africa's U.N. ambassador said Thursday.

AP - France will push for a United Nations resolution authorizing the delivery of aid to Myanmar's cyclone survivors "by all means necessary" if pressure from the U.N. chief and neighboring countries doesn't work, France's U.N. ambassador said Thursday.

AP - U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon, on a mission to open Myanmar to international disaster assistance, said the ruling junta agreed Friday to allow "all aid workers" into the country to help cyclone survivors.