Senate Majority Leader Harry Reed (D-Nev.) said he’d bring up the disability treaty for another vote in the next Congress.

“I plan to bring this treaty up for a vote again in the next Congress,” Reid said in a statement Tuesday, after the Senate rejected the treaty. “Our wounded veterans and millions more around the world deserve better.”

NATO's decision to supply Turkey with a slew of ballistic missile interceptors to defend its shared border with Syria will not result in a no-fly zone within the country, according to a top defense lawmaker. 

Former presidential candidate Rick Santorum immediately jumped on Tuesday's defeat of the U.N. disabilities treaty to promote his advocacy group in favor of conservative Republicans.

The former senator from Pennsylvania failed in his primary bid against Mitt Romney last year, but has since tried to reemerge as a conservative kingmaker. He launched his “Patriot Voices” nonprofit in June to get Republicans into office and push them to the right, and joined World Net Daily as a columnist this week.

“We did it,” Santorum tweeted Tuesday. “#CRPD was defeated today. @Patriot_voices will cont to have an impact on important issues. Pls join us.”

The number of terrorist attacks has steadily increased worldwide over the past decade but the number of fatalities is down 25 percent since peaking in 2007, according to a new report ranking countries according to terrorism impact.

The index from the Institute for Economics and Peace, released Tuesday, found that North America is the region of the world least likely to suffer from terrorism, with a fatality rate 19 times lower than Western Europe's. The regions most at risk in 2011 were the Middle East — particularly Iraq — along with India, Pakistan and Russia.

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Obama on Tuesday rejected the suggestion that he would look "weak" were he not to appoint Rice to the post.

Republicans argued the treaty could lead to legal challenges for people homeschooling children.

Former Sen. Bob Dole (R-Kan.) returned to the Senate floor Tuesday for a vote on disability rights.

Your morning global affairs speed-read

The Senate votes today on ratification of the U.N. Convention on the Rights of People With Disabilities. Democrats are expected to have a hard time getting the 13 Republicans they need for the treaty's passage after 36 Republicans vowed to oppose any treaties during the lame-duck session of Congress.

Refugees and terrorism: The House Homeland Security panel's subcommittee on counterterrorism holds a hearing on “terrorist exploitation of refugee programs.” Witnesses include the director of the Refugee Admissions Office at the State Department, Lawrence Bartlett, as well as Homeland Security officials.

Senate Republicans are expected on Tuesday to reject an international treaty affirming the rights of people with disabilities.