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Russia's President Putin hosts a meeting in St. Petersburg with French President Chirac and German Chancellor Schroeder. The three leaders, who led opposition to the U.S. invasion of Iraq, now seek a prominent role for the United Nations in governing and rebuilding Iraq. Hear NPR's Scott Simon and NPR's Lawrence Sheets.

The Bush administration circulates a draft resolution that outlines a larger role for the United Nations in post-war Iraq. It's an effort to convince more countries to contribute troops and resources to the stabilization of Iraq, but the resolution maintains a lead role for the United States in the country's affairs. NPR's Vicky O'Hara reports.

The Security Council unanimously passes a U.S.-British resolution detailing sovereignty and security issues for Iraq's interim government, which will take power June 30. At the G8 Conference in Sea Island, Ga., President Bush welcomed the news. Iraq-related questions have dominated the summit of industrialized nations. Hear NPR's Vicky O'Hara and NPR's Jim Zarroli.

NPR's Ayesha Rascoe speaks to Palestinian researcher Yousef Munayyer about Palestinian sentiment six months since the start of Israel's war on Hamas.

NPR's Ailsa Chang talks with Israel's Ambassador to the UN, Danny Danon, about the International Criminal Court's arrest warrants for PM Benjamin Netanyahu and former defense Minister Yoav Gallant.

For some insight into the fighter pilot culture, Linda talks with Captain Rosemary Mariner, a retired Navy Captain Aviator. She was trained to fly planes like the fighter that collided with the US reconnaissance plane. Mariner is now a Research Fellow for the University of Tennessee, Center for the Study for War and Society.

The UAE, site of this year's UN climate talks, forbids protests, something that has happened at previous summits. In Dubai, protests are happened but they are highly restricted.

This week, the rapper Future hit #1 on Billboard's albums chart for a third time in the last six months. Meanwhile, on the songs, chart, stasis is becoming the coin of the realm.

NPR's Rachel Martin asks the U.N.'s Matthias Behnke about civilians trapped in Raqqa, the former ISIS stronghold in Syria. The U.N. says up to 100,000 people are trapped there by anti-ISIS strikes.

The government plans to call Mark Zuckerberg and Sheryl Sandberg to the witness stand. The trial is expected to run nearly two months in a federal courtroom in Washington.