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Exterior view of the grain storage terminal during visit of United Nations Secretary General Antonio Guterres at the Odesa Sea Port, in Odesa, Ukraine, Aug. 19, 2022. Two cargo ships have arrived in one of Ukraine’s ports Saturday, using a temporary Black Sea corridor established by the government. They're the first since Russia’s withdrawal from a wartime agreement designed to ensure safe grain exports from the invaded country’s ports (AP Photo/Kostiantyn Liberov, File)

First two cargo ships arrive in Ukrainian port after Russia’s exit from grain deal

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People arrive at the headquarters of United Nations ahead of this week's General Assembly in New York, Sunday, Sept 17, 2023. (AP Photo / Bryan Woolston)

Ukraine is the spotlight at U.N. leaders’ gathering, but is there room for other global priorities?

By Edith M. Lederer - Associated Press

South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol addresses the 77th session of the United Nations General Assembly on Sept. 20, 2022 at U.N. headquarters. South Korea’s President Yoon said the international community “will unite more tightly” to cope with deepening military cooperation between Russia and North Korea, as he pushes to raise the issue with world leaders at the U.N. General Assembly this week.(AP Photo/Mary Altaffer, File)

South Korea’s Yoon warns against Russia-North Korea military cooperation and plans to discuss at UN

By Hyung-Jin Kim - Associated Press

Russian President Vladimir Putin and North Korea's leader Kim Jong Un examine a launch pad during their meeting at the Vostochny cosmodrome outside the city of Tsiolkovsky, about 200 kilometers (125 miles) from the city of Blagoveshchensk in the far eastern Amur region, Russia, on Wednesday, Sept. 13, 2023. (Mikhail Metzel, Sputnik, Kremlin Pool Photo via AP)

North Korean arms for Russia probably wouldn’t make a big difference in the Ukraine war, Milley says

By Lolita C. Baldor - Associated Press

This drone image on Wednesday Sept. 6, 2023, shows houses seen destroyed during the fighting between Russian and Ukrainian armed forces are seen in Andriivka, Donetsk region, Ukraine. Deputy Defense Minister Hanna Maliar said this morning Ukraine's General Staff officially confirmed that Ukrainian troops captured Andriivka, which is 10 km south of Bakhmut. (AP Photo/Evgeniy Maloletka)

Ukrainian forces reclaim a village in the east as part of counteroffensive

By Samya Kullab - Associated Press

In this photo provided by the North Korean government, North Korean leader Kim Jong-un responds as Russian President Vladimir Putin sends him off from the Vostochny cosmodrome outside the city of Tsiolkovsky, about 200 kilometers (125 miles) from the city of Blagoveshchensk in the far eastern Amur region, Russia, Wednesday, Sept. 13, 2023. Independent journalists were not given access to cover the event depicted in this image distributed by the North Korean government. The content of this image is as provided and cannot be independently verified. Korean language watermark on image as provided by source reads: "KCNA" which is the abbreviation for Korean Central News Agency. (Korean Central News Agency/Korea News Service via AP)

North Korea’s Kim gets a close look at Russian fighter jets as his tour narrows its focus to weapons

By Hyung-Jin Kim, Kim Tong-Hyung and Emma Burrows - Associated Press

Cardinal Matteo Zuppi, head of the CEI (Italian Conference of Bishops), welcomes parishioners after celebrating Mass at the Cathedral of the Immaculate Conception in Moscow, on June 29, 2023. Pope Francis’ Ukraine peace envoy, Cardinal Matteo Zuppi, is heading to China on the fourth leg of a mission that has already brought him to Kyiv, Moscow and Washington, the Vatican said Tuesday.. (AP Photo/Alexander Zemlianichenko, file)

Pope’s Ukraine peace envoy raises stalled Black Sea grain exports in Beijing talks

By Nicole Winfield - Associated Press

FILE - A tractor collects straw on a field in a private farm in Zhurivka, Kyiv region, Ukraine, Thursday, Aug. 10, 2023. The European Union faces a Friday, Sept. 15, 2023, deadline to decide whether to extend a ban on Ukrainian food from five nearby countries that have complained the influx has hurt their farmers. But they still allow grain and other products to head to parts of the world in need. (AP Photo/Efrem Lukatsky, File)

EU faces deadline on extending Ukrainian grain ban as countries threaten to pass their own

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In this photo released by Khabarovsky Krai region government, North Korean leader Kim Jong Un, 2nd right, gestures while visiting aircraft plant "Production center "Yakovlev" that builds passenger planes Superjet-100, in Komsomolsk-on-Amur, about 6,200 kilometers (3,900 miles) east of Moscow, Russia, Friday, Sept. 15, 2023. (Khabarovsky Krai region government via AP)

Kim Jong-un arrives in Russian port city where he is shown nuclear-capable bombers

By Kim Tong-Hyung and Hyung-Jin Kim - Associated Press

FILE - Paintings decorate the walls of the Saint Sophia Cathedral, a UNESCO World Heritage Site in Kyiv, Ukraine, Saturday, March 26, 2022. The U.N.’s World Heritage Committee has placed two major historical sites in Ukraine on its list of such sites that it considers to be in danger, Friday, Sept. 15, 2023. The iconic Saint Sophia Cathedral and the medieval center of the western city of Lviv, are UNESCO World Heritage Sites central to Ukraine’s culture and history. (AP Photo/Vadim Ghirda, File)

UNESCO puts two locations in war-ravaged Ukraine on its list of historic sites in danger

By Baraa Anwer - Associated Press

Russian President Vladimir Putin, foreground right, attends the launch ceremony for the first technological line for liquefying natural gas on gravity bases as part of the Arctic LNG2 (Liquefied Natural Gas) project at the center for the construction of large-tonnage offshore structures (CSCMS) of Novatek-Murmansk company in the village of Belokamenka, about 1700 km (1063 miles) north of Moscow, Murmansk region, Russia, Thursday, July 20, 2023. The U.S. is sanctioning a newly established UAE company, which provides engineering and technology that Western corporations previously offered, to Russia’s Arctic liquefied natural gas project, as well as multiple Russian companies involved in its development. (Alexander Kazakov, Sputnik, Kremlin Pool Photo via AP, File)

New U.S. sanctions target workarounds that let Russia get Western tech for war

By Emma Burrows - Associated Press

Then-U.S. Secretary of Commerce Penny Pritzker speaks during a news conference in the Commission Berlaymont building in Brussels, Belgium on July 12, 2016. The Biden administration has tapped former Commerce Secretary and major Democratic donor Penny Pritzker to coordinate U.S. efforts to channel private sector reconstruction assistance to Ukraine. (AP Photo/Darko Vojinovic, File)

Eyeing endgame, Biden taps Obama vet Pritzker to oversee Ukraine rebuilding

By David R. Sands - The Washington Times

A TV screen shows an image of a meeting between Russian President Vladimir Putin, right, and North Korea's leader Kim Jong-un during a news program at the Seoul Railway Station in Seoul, South Korea, Thursday, Sept. 14, 2023. Kim vowed "full and unconditional support" for Putin on Wednesday as the two leaders isolated by the West held a summit that the U.S. warned could lead to a deal to supply ammunition for Moscow's war in Ukraine. (AP Photo/Ahn Young-joon)

No sign of Kim Jong-un as his Russia visit continues and Seoul expresses concern over Putin meetings

By Kim Tong-Hyung and Dasha Litvinova - Associated Press

Trucks stands at the post-customs international checkpoint Chernyshevskoye at the Russian-Lithuanian border in Kaliningrad region, Russia, Wednesday, June 22, 2022. The Baltic states of Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania have in a jointly coordinated move banned vehicles with Russian license plates from entering their territory as part of the European Union’s recent new interpretation of sanctions against Moscow. (AP Photo, File)

Baltic states ban vehicles with Russian license plates in line with EU sanctions interpretation

By Jari Tanner - Associated Press

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy looks on as he meets with Dutch caretaker Prime Minister Mark Rutte during his visit to Eindhoven, Netherlands, Sunday Aug. 20, 2023. (Piroschka van de Wouw/Pool via AP)

Ukraine president Volodymyr Zelenskyy expected to visit Capitol Hill next week

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Russian President Vladimir Putin, right, and Chinese President Xi Jinping arrive to attend a signing ceremony following their talks at The Grand Kremlin Palace, in Moscow, Russia, Tuesday, March 21, 2023. (Grigory Sysoyev, Sputnik, Kremlin Pool Photo via AP)

As Biden preps for New York, Xi, Putin and others skipping U.N. General Assembly

By Guy Taylor - The Washington Times

In this Feb. 16, 2015, photo, General Prosecutor of Ukraine Viktor Shokin speaks during a news conference in Kiev, Ukraine. Ukrainian authorities say a sniper shot at the country's top prosecutor as he sat in his office, but that bulletproof glass prevented any casualties. Prosecutor-General Viktor Shokin was in his office late Monday with several co-workers when three shots were fired, according to one of his deputies, Anatoliy Matios. (AP Photo/Sergei Chuzavkov) **FILE**

House impeachment probe hones in on Biden’s effort to oust Ukrainian prosecutor

By Susan Ferrechio - The Washington Times

Illustration on the workings of Biden family corruption by Alexander Hunter/The Washington Times

Whaddya know? Trump was right about Biden family corruption all along

By Kelly Sadler - The Washington Times

Speaker of the House Kevin McCarthy, R-Calif., speaks at the Capitol in Washington, Tuesday, Sept. 12, 2023. McCarthy says he's directing a House committee to open a formal impeachment inquiry into President Joe Biden. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin)

Retired U.S. generals to McCarthy: Don’t give up on Ukraine aid

By Tom Howell Jr. - The Washington Times

A fireball lights the horizon on the Ukrainian shore of the Danube, seen from Chilia Veche in eastern Romania on the night of Tuesday, Sept. 5, 2023. The discovery of drone debris on Romanian territory this week has left some local residents fearing that the war in neighboring Ukraine could spread into their country, as Russian forces bombard Ukrainian ports just across the Danube River from NATO-member Romania. (Mircea Franc via AP)

NATO member Romania confirms third drone fragments findings near its border with Ukraine

By Stephen McGrath and Andreea Alexandru - Associated Press