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Mohamed Chande Othman, chair of the of the United Nations Fact-Finding Mission, presents its first investigative report to the media during a press conference at the European headquarters of the United Nations in Geneva, Switzerland, Friday, Sept. 6, 2024. (Salvatore Di Nolfi/Keystone via AP)

U.N.-backed rights experts seek wider arms embargo and ‘impartial force’ deployed to war-torn Sudan

By Jamey Keaten - Associated Press

Gen. Mohammed Hamdan Dagalo, the deputy head of the military council speaks at a ceremony in the capital Khartoum, Sudan, Sunday, Aug. 4, 2019. Sudan's paramilitary leader has announced plans to attend ceasefire talks in Switzerland next month arranged by the United States and Saudi Arabia. (AP Photo, File)

Sudan paramilitary leader plans to attend cease-fire talks in Switzerland hosted by U.S., Saudi Arab

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A security person moves journalists away from the Wuhan Institute of Virology after a World Health Organization team arrived for a field visit in Wuhan in China's Hubei province on Feb. 3, 2021. The hunt for COVID-19 origins has gone dark in China. An AP investigation drawing on thousands of pages of undisclosed emails and documents and dozens of interviews found feuding officials and fear of blame ended meaningful Chinese and international efforts to trace the virus almost as soon as they began, despite years of public statements to the contrary. (AP Photo/Ng Han Guan, File)

Toxic: How the search for the origins of COVID-19 turned politically poisonous

By Dake Kang and Maria Cheng - Associated Press

From left, Nduma Defense of Renewed Congo (NDR-C) President Jeremie N'Kuba, NDR-C spokesman Marcellin Shenkuku N'Kuba, Appel de Geneve general director Alain Deletroz and Collective of Movements for Change/Self-Defense Force of Congolese People (CMC-MDP) external relations Jimmy Butsitsi ink pledges to better protect civilians in the eastern Congo conflict during a ceremony in Geneva, Switzerland, Tuesday, March 26, 2024. The envoys of armed groups made commitments that their forces will work to end sexual violence, food insecurity and conditions of famine, and to ensure greater access to health care in parts of increasingly violent eastern Congo that they operate in and control. (AP Photo/Jamey Keaten)

As conflict worsens in eastern Congo, 2 armed groups pledge to respect civilians

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U.N. High Commissioner for Human Rights Volker Türk speaks at the European headquarters of the United Nations in Geneva, Switzerland, Thursday, Nov. 16, 2023. The U.N. human rights chief called Monday, March 4, 2024, for a quick end to the “repression of independent voices” in Russia and expressed concerns about the “persecution" of opposition leader Alexei Navalny, who died in prison last month. (Salvatore Di Nolfi/Keystone via AP, File)

U.N. rights chief urges end to ‘repression’ of independent voices in Russia after Navalny’s death

By Jamey Keaten - Associated Press

Biden and Putin in a Box illustration by Greg Groesch / The Washington Times

Trump boxed Putin in, and Biden let him out

By Rowan Scarborough - The Washington Times

Chen Xu, Ambassador of the Permanent Representative Mission of the China to the UN Geneva, who is leading China's delegation, addresses his statement, during the U.N. Human Rights Council's Universal Periodic Review (UPR) Working Group meeting to review China's human rights record, at the European headquarters of the United Nations in Geneva, Switzerland, Tuesday, Jan. 23, 2024. (Salvatore Di Nolfi/Keystone via AP)

Western countries press China on Hong Kong law, minority rights as U.N. body reviews its record

By Jamey Keaten - Associated Press

FILE - Sheikh Ahmad al-Fahad al-Sabah arrives at a Geneva's courthouse ahead of the verdict for a trial for forgery in connection with arbitration, in Geneva, Switzerland, Friday, Sept. 10, 2021. Long-time Olympic power broker Sheikh Ahmad of Kuwait has had his conviction for forgery upheld on appeal. However a court ruling in Geneva published Monday says the sheikh will not serve jail time for his part in a coup plot to implicate public rivals at home. (Salvatore Di Nolfi/Keystone via AP, File)

Olympic member Sheikh Ahmad has conviction for forgery upheld on appeal though won’t serve jail time

By Graham Dunbar - Associated Press

FILE -Riot police detain a demonstrator during a protest against mobilization in Moscow, Russia, Wednesday, Sept. 21, 2022. Western countries on Monday repeatedly called on Russia to end domestic repression of dissident voices and end its war in Ukraine and human rights violations related to it, as Russia came under a regular review at the U.N.’s top rights body. (AP Photo/Alexander Zemlianichenko, File)

Russian U.N. envoys shoot back at Western criticism of its Ukraine war and crackdown on dissidents

By Jamey Keaten - Associated Press

FILE - Russian President Vladimir Putin, right, and Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko speak during their meeting at the Bocharov Ruchei residence in the resort city of Sochi, Russia, Friday, June 9, 2023. The international Red Cross is calling for the ouster of the head of the Belarus Red Cross who stirred international outrage for boasting that it was actively ferrying Ukrainian children from Russian-controlled areas to Belarus. The board of the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies said Wednesday, Oct. 4, 2023, it has given the Belarus chapter until Nov. 30 to dismiss Dzmitry Shautsou. (Gavriil Grigorov, Sputnik, Kremlin Pool Photo via AP, File)

Global Red Cross urges ouster of Belarus chapter chief who boasted of bringing in Ukrainian children

By Jamey Keaten - Associated Press

A deer stands by hay bales in a field in Czosnow, near Warsaw, Poland, Monday, Sept.18, 2023. Poland, along with Hungary and Slovakia, continue their ban on imports of Ukraine grain, saying it hurts the interests of their farmers. (AP Photo/Czarek Sokolowski)

Ukraine complains to WTO about Hungary, Poland and Slovakia banning its food products

By Jamey Keaten and Illia Novikov - Associated Press

In this photo provided by the Libyan government, a car sits partly suspended in trees after being carried by floodwaters in Derna, Libya, on Monday, Sept. 11, 2023. Mediterranean storm Daniel caused devastating floods in Libya that broke dams and swept away entire neighborhoods and wrecked homes in multiple coastal towns in the east of the North African nation. As many as 2,000 people were feared dead one of the country's leaders said. (Libyan government handout via AP)

Rescuers retrieve hundreds of bodies in eastern Libya as 10,000 reported missing in deadly floods

By Samy Magdy - Associated Press

FILE - Inter Milan's Romelu Lukaku walks on the pitch in front of a 'no to racism' banner during the training session prior the Europa League round of 16 soccer match between Inter Milan and Getafe at the Veltins-Arena in Gelsenkirchen, Germany, Tuesday, Aug. 4, 2020. U.N.-backed human rights experts focusing on racial discrimination called on Italy's government to do more to eliminate acts of violence, hate speech, stigmatization and harassment against Africans and people of African descent, and expressed concern that no legal cases have been brought to punish fans and others racist acts at sports events. (Lars Baron/Pool via AP, File)

U.N.-backed panel says Italy can do more to fight racism, discrimination in sports and society

By Jamey Keaten - Associated Press

Sudanese refugees who fled the conflict in Sudan gather July 4, 2023 at the Zabout refugee Camp in Goz Beida, Chad. The U.N. says the conflict in Sudan has driven more than 3.1 million people from their homes, including over 700,000 who fled to neighboring countries. The U.N. said Wednesday more than 72% of those displaced were from the capital, Khartoum, and around 9% from West Darfur province, where the clashes between the military and the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces have largely centered. (Marie-Helena Laurent/WFP via AP)

Mass grave with at least 87 bodies found in West Darfur, United Nations says

By Jack Jeffery - Associated Press

Nicolas Jarry of Chile reacts after winning a game against Casper Ruud of Norway during their quarter-final match at the Geneva Open tennis tournament in Geneva, Switzerland, Thursday, May 25, 2023. (Martial Trezzini/Keystone via AP)

Defending champion Ruud ousted by Jarry in Geneva Open quarterfinals

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Logos of the Swiss banks Credit Suisse and UBS are seen on two buildings in Zurich, Switzerland, Saturday, March 18, 2023. (Michael Buholzer/Keystone via AP)

Credit Suisse customers feel mix of anger, relief after sale

By Jamey Keaten and Courtney Bonnell - Associated Press

This undated photograph handed out by French military shows three Russian mercenaries, right, in northern Mali. Russia's Wagner Group, a private military company led by Yevgeny Prigozhin, a rogue millionaire with longtime links to Russia's President Vladimir Putin, has played a key role in the fighting in Ukraine and also deployed its personnel to Syria, Central African Republic, Libya and Mali. (French Army via AP, File)

Experts seek investigation of Wagner Group, Mali forces

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A Christie's employee displays a pink diamond called &quot;The Fortune Pink&quot; of 18,18 carat, during a preview at Christie's, in Geneva, Switzerland, Wednesday, Nov. 2, 2022. The pear-shaped 18-carat pink diamond is set to be sold at auction on Tuesday and is expected to fetch between $25 million and $35 million. (Martial Trezzini/Keystone via AP)

Pear-shaped pink diamond expected to reap $25M-35M at auction

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Residents watch a convoy of security personnel armed with batons and shields patrol through central Kashgar in western China's Xinjiang region, Nov. 5, 2017. China's discriminatory detention of Uyghurs and other mostly Muslim ethnic groups in the western region of Xinjiang may constitute crimes against humanity, the U.N. human rights office said in a long-awaited report Wednesday, Aug. 31, 2022, which cited &quot;serious&quot; rights violations and patterns of torture in recent years. (AP Photo/Ng Han Guan, File)

To China’s fury, U.N. accuses Beijing of Uyghur rights abuses

By Ken Moritsugu and Jamey Keaten - Associated Press

In this photo taken from a video released by the Russian Defense Ministry Press Service on Wednesday, May 18, 2022, a Russian serviceman frisks a Ukrainian soldier after he left the besieged Azovstal steel plant in Mariupol, Ukraine. (Russian Defense Ministry Press Service via AP)

Red Cross registers Mariupol POWs as hundreds more surrender

By Oleksandr Stashevskyi and Ciaran McQuillan - Associated Press