Angela Merkel faces re-election on Sunday, while voters in Kurdistan head to the polls on Monday to decide whether to pursue independence from Iraq.

Secretary of State Rex Tillerson admits that even America's closest allies are in the dark about the president's thinking on the Iranian nuclear deal.

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu calls on negotiators to tear up the Iranian nuclear deal or make major changes to the 2015 agreement.

Trump's first speech to the UN General Assembly was peppered with threats, from war with North Korea to ending the 2015 Iranian nuclear deal.

President Trump pays his first visit to the United Nations and praises the organization for beginning a complex reform process.

NASA's Cassini mission draws to an end, a top U.S. official is barred from conflict areas in Myanmar and (another) North Korean missile test.

The UN reports a major refugee exodus from northern Myanmar, and Hurricane Irma damage estimates trickle in from the eastern Caribbean. 

In his State of the European Union Address, Jean-Claude Juncker announces new free trade talks with Australia and New Zealand.

The UN Security Council passes a new round of sanctions on North Korea.

Nobel prize winners are calling for Myanmar's political leader to resign over her country's treatment of its Rohingya Muslim population.