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In this Jan. 23, 2020, file photo, Dr. Gauden Galea, the World Health Organization (WHO) representative in China, speaks during an interview with The Associated Press at the WHO's offices in Beijing. (AP Photo/Mark Schiefelbein, File) **FILE**

WHO experts to visit China to plan COVID-19 investigation

By SAM McNEIL - Associated Press

Citroen unveils new hatchback as virus pushes event online

By DAVID McHUGH - Associated Press

Marianne Pohl Henzen smiles in the Saint Paul sisters church in Fribourg, Switzerland, Wednesday, June 3, 2020. A Swiss bishop's appointment of Marianne Pohl Henzen, a lay mother of three, to a senior administrative post previously held by a priest has raised eyebrows in conservative Catholic circles, at a time when a strengthened role for women in the church is under debate in other European countries. (AP Photo/Nadine Achoui-Lesage)

Eyebrows raised as Swiss bishop taps woman for senior job

By NADINE ACHOUI-LESAGE and JAMEY KEATEN - Associated Press

Geneva College student Breland Brown, right, and Sidney Freshwater, second from right, wait to sign in with their classmates at the Beaver County Jail before they take a class with inmates on Feb. 24, 2020 in Aliquippa, Pa. Every Monday six inmates and 10 Geneva College students sit together at tables and learn about the criminal justice system. (Lucy Schaly/Beaver County Times via AP)

‘Jail class’: College students, inmates learning together

By DANI FITZGERALD and Beaver County Times - Associated Press

A South Korean soldier wearing protective gears cleans his goggles to spray disinfectant as a precaution against the new coronavirus on a street in Seoul, South Korea, Friday, March 6, 2020. South Korea's premier has criticized Japan's 14-day quarantine on all visitors from South Korea due to its viral outbreak, demanding that Tokyo immediately withdraw the &quot;excessive and irrational measures.&quot; (AP Photo/Lee Jin-man)

Virus cases top 100,000 in 90 countries as markets take dive

By ANGELA CHARLTON and MATT SEDENSKY - Associated Press

Libyan Gen. Khalifa Hifter arrives at the Foreign Ministry to meet the Greek Foreign Minister Nikos Dendias in Athens, Friday, Jan. 17, 2020. The commander of anti-government forces in war-torn Libya has begun meetings in Athens in a bid to counter Turkey's support for his opponents. (AP Photo/Thanassis Stavrakis)

UN-backed government in Libya suspends talks after attack

By JAMEY KEATEN and SAMY MAGDY - Associated Press

FILE - In this April 9, 2019, file photo Michelle Bachelet, United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights, attends a press conference at the Cultural Center of Spain, in Mexico City. An internal confidential document from the United Nations, leaked to The New Humanitarian and seen by The Associated Press, says that dozens of servers were “compromised” at offices in Geneva and Vienna.Those include the U.N. human rights office, which has often been a lightning rod of criticism from autocratic governments for its calling-out of rights abuses. (AP Photo/Marco Ugarte, File)

Leaked report shows United Nations suffered hack

By JAMEY KEATEN and FRANK BAJAK - Associated Press

Editorial Roundup: Alabama

By The Associated Press - Associated Press

Funerals planned in Alabama town where 3 cheerleaders died

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From left, Constitutional Committee Co-Chairman Ahmad Kuzbari, representative of the Syrian Government, Geir O. Pedersen, Special Envoy for Syria and the Constitutional Committee Co-Chairman, Hadi al-Bahra, representative of the Syrian opposition, speak during the first meeting of the Syrian Constitutional Committee at the European headquarters of the United Nations in Geneva, Switzerland, Wednesday, October 30, 2019. (Martial Trezzini/Keystone via AP)

Syria talks: Possible path toward peace, or another dead end

By JAMEY KEATEN - Associated Press

Swiss Interior Minister Alain Berset, center, sitting next to Ivonne Higuero, right, CITES Secretary-General ( Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora), delivers his statement, during the opening remarks of the World Wildlife Conference - CITES CoP18, in Geneva, Switzerland, Saturday, Aug. 17, 2019. (Salvatore Di Nolfi/Keystone via AP)

From tusks to tails, nations eye trade in endangered species

By JAMEY KEATEN and MARIA CHENG - Associated Press

Lawyer for Israeli diamond magnate denies corruption claims

By JAMEY KEATEN - Associated Press

In this photograph taken Sunday July 14, 2019, an Ebola victim is put to rest at the Muslim cemetery in Beni, Congo DRC. The head of the World Health Organization is convening a meeting of experts Wednesday July 17, 2019 to decide whether the Ebola outbreak should be declared an international emergency after spreading to eastern Congo's biggest city, Goma, this week. More than 1,600 people in eastern Congo have died as the virus has spread in areas too dangerous for health teams to access. (AP Photo/Jerome Delay)

Ebola outbreak in Congo declared a global health emergency

By MARIA CHENG and JAMEY KEATEN - Associated Press

In this Wednesday, June 5, 2019, photo, a construction worker carries a fence at the construction site of the Tokyo Olympic Village in Tokyo. A former Olympian and head of a human-rights watchdog is asking the IOC and Tokyo Olympic organizers to investigate worker safety at venues being built for next year’s games. (AP Photo/Jae C. Hong)

Rights group asks for worker-safety probe at Tokyo Olympics

By STEPHEN WADE - Associated Press

A banner reading in Catalan: &quot;Freedom political and exiled prisoners&quot; hangs from the balcony of the Palau Generalitat, in Sant Jaume square in Barcelona, Spain, Monday, May 27, 2019. The lower chamber of Spain's Parliament on Friday suspended Oriol Junqueras and three colleagues from their recently gained seats as national lawmakers because they are currently in jail during an ongoing trial at Spain's Supreme Court. They face up to 25 years in prison for rebellion charges that stem from a banned referendum and an independence declaration made by the separatist-controlled Catalan government in late 2017. (AP Photo/Manu Fernandez)

Spain decries UN working group’s opinion on jailed Catalans

By ARITZ PARRA and JOSEPH WILSON - Associated Press

Correction: WHO Travel story

By MARIA CHENG - Associated Press

In this Monday, April 22, 2019 photo, Matthew Lutz holds an artifact at the Geneva American Legion Post #75 in Geneva, Ill. Lutz Marine, a Marine veteran is trying to locate, repair and catalog everything at an American Legion Post in northern Illinois ahead of its 100-year anniversary. (Patrick Kunzer/Daily Herald via AP)

Marine conserving Geneva post’s history ahead of centennial

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FILE - In this April 28, 2017 file photo, prison guards stand on the roof of the Ramo Verde military prison in Los Teques, on the outskirts of Caracas, Venezuela. The International Committee of the Red Cross has regained access to visit prisons in Venezuela, including highly guarded military facilities such as Ramo Verde where dozens of inmates considered political prisoners are being held. (AP Photo/Ariana Cubillos, File)

Red Cross regains entry to Venezuela jails, military prisons

By JOSHUA GOODMAN and JAMEY KEATEN - Associated Press

A house surrounded by flood water near Beira, Mozambique, Thursday, March 28, 2019. The first cases of cholera have been confirmed in the cyclone-ravaged city of Beira, Mozambican authorities announced on Wednesday, raising the stakes in an already desperate fight to help hundreds of thousands of people sheltering in increasingly squalid conditions. (AP Photo/Themba Hadebe)

Mozambique cholera cases jump to 139 a day after outbreak

By CARA ANNA - Associated Press