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This frame grab from video provided on Tuesday, Feb. 12, 2019, by the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, an opposition group, that is consistent with independent AP reporting, shows U.S.-backed Syrian Democratic Forces fighters looking at smoke rising from a shell that targeted Islamic State group militants, in the village of Baghouz, Deir El-Zour, eastern Syria. Fighting between U.S.-backed fighters and IS inflicted more casualties among people fleeing the violence in eastern Syria Tuesday where the extremists are on the verge of losing the last area they control. (Syrian Observatory for Human Rights via AP)

IS militants cling to last square mile in eastern Syria

By SARAH EL DEEB - Associated Press

FILE - In this Dec. 13, 2018, file, photo, tribesmen loyal to Houthi rebels hold up their weapons as they attend a gathering to show their support for the ongoing peace talks being held in Sweden, in Sanaa, Yemen. The United Nations has cast doubt on the claims by Yemen’s Shiite rebels to have withdrawn from the port of Hodeida, saying such steps can only be credible if all other parties can verify them.(AP Photo/Hani Mohammed, File)

UN calls out Yemen’s Houthi rebels over peace gestures

By AHMED AL-HAJ - Associated Press

UN warns of a possible new cholera epidemic in Yemen

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FILE - In this July 17, 2016 file photo, Venezuelans wait in line to cross into Colombia through the Simon Bolivar bridge in San Antonio del Tachira, Venezuela. The United Nations says an estimated 2.3 million Venezuelans had fled the country as of June 2018, mainly to Colombia, Ecuador, Peru and Brazil. (AP Photo/Ariana Cubillos, File)

UN says an estimated 2.3 million people have fled Venezuela

By EDITH M. LEDERER - Associated Press

1 UN peacekeeper dead, 7 wounded in Central African Republic

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1 UN peacekeeper killed, 11 hurt in Central African Republic

By EDITH M. LEDERER - Associated Press

1 peacekeeper killed, 3 wounded in Central African Republic

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Red Cross volunteers talk to villagers about the plague outbreak, 30 miles west of Antananarivo, Madagascar, Monday, Oct. 16, 2017. As plague cases rose last week in Madagascar's capital, many city dwellers panicked. They waited in long lines for antibiotics at pharmacies and reached through bus windows to buy masks from street vendors. Schools have been canceled, and public gatherings are banned. (AP Photo/Alexander Joe)

UN says plague cases in Madagascar almost doubled in 5 days

By EDITH M. LEDERER - Associated Press

UN: Teenage girl alleges sex abuse by peacekeeper in CAR

By EDITH M. LEDERER - Associated Press

In this photo taken Thursday, Feb. 16, 2017, two South Sudanese refugee boys carrying their belongings arrive at a refugee collection center in Palorinya, Uganda. More than 100,000 people have fled a single county in South Sudan in just three months as civil war continues amid warnings of genocide, and the surge of more than half a million South Sudanese refugees into Uganda since July has created Africa's largest refugee crisis. (AP Photo/Justin Lynch)

As South Sudan refugee flood continues, so do tales of abuse

By JUSTIN LYNCH - Associated Press

FILE - In this Monday, Dec. 30, 2013 file photo, a United Nations armored vehicle passes displaced people walking towards the U.N. camp in Malakal, South Sudan. An independent investigation released Tuesday, Nov. 1, 2016, of attacks in July on a U.N. compound in South Sudan housing 27,000 displaced people, and a private compound not far away housing U.N. staff and aid workers, is sharply critical of the U.N. peacekeeping mission's leadership and the response by troops from China, Ethiopia, Nepal and India. (AP Photo/Ben Curtis, File)

UN chief fires general in South Sudan after harsh report

By EDITH M. LEDERER - Associated Press

FILE - In an Aug. 2012 file photo, General Babacar Gaye, head of the United Nations Supervision Mission in Syria (UNSMIS), gives a news conference in Damascus, Syria. Gaye, the head of the U.N. peacekeeping mission in the Central African Republic, resigned Wednesday, Aug. 12, 2015, at the request of U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon, over the force's handling of a series of sexual and other misconduct allegations. Ban Ki-moon has called a special session of the U.N. Security Council for Thursday over the issue of sexual abuse allegations that has rocked the world body. (AP Photo/Salman Muzaffar, File)

Ban fires UN peacekeeping chief in Central African Republic

By CARA ANNA - Associated Press

A United Nations flag (AP Photo/Hussein Malla)

U.N. peacekeepers accused of death, rape in African mission

By Cara Anna - Associated Press

UN: Air travel from Ebola nations should continue

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