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Israeli soldiers drive a tanks near the Gaza Strip border, in southern Israel, Monday, Feb. 19, 2024. (AP Photo/Tsafrir Abayov)

Live updates | 2 killed in Gaza where Palestinians were seeking shelter: Doctors Without Borders

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U.S. engaging with North Korea to stop nuclear threat illustration by Linas Garsys / The Washington Times

The North Korean existential nuclear threat

By Joseph R. DeTrani

A Palestinian woman wounded in the Israeli bombardment of the Gaza Strip receives treatment at the Nasser hospital in Khan Younis, southern Gaza Strip, Friday, Dec. 29, 2023. (AP Photo/Mohammed Dahman)

Benjamin Netanyahu says Gaza war on Hamas will go on for ‘many more months’

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Smoke rises following an Israeli bombardment on Rafah, southern Gaza Strip, Wednesday, Dec. 20, 2023. (AP Photo/Fatima Shbair)

Live updates | Talks on Gaza cease-fire and freeing more hostages as Hamas leader is in Egypt

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North Korean Ambassador to the United Nations Kim Song addresses a Security Council meeting on Non-proliferation/North Korea, Thursday, July 13, 2023, at United Nations headquarters. North Korea and Russia clashed with the United States, South Korea and their allies at an emergency U.N. Security Council meeting Tuesday, Dec. 19, on Pyongyang’s latest intercontinental ballistic missile launch, which it called “a warning counter-measure” to threats from the U.S. and other hostile forces. Song called this “the most dangerous year” for security on the Korean Peninsula on Tuesday. (AP Photo/Mary Altaffer, File)

North Korea, Russia clash with U.S., South Korea and allies over Pyongyang’s latest missile launch

By Edith M. Lederer - Associated Press

A Palestinian woman shows the body of her grandchild, her father after it was killed in the Israeli bombardment of the Gaza Strip outside a morgue in Rafah, Tuesday, Dec. 19, 2023. (AP Photo/Hatem Ali)

Live updates | Israel launches more strikes in Gaza as UN delays vote on a cease-fire resolution

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Live updates | Fighting in southern Gaza city as Israel widens its offensive

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Live updates | Fighting in conditions in Gaza worsen as Israel widens its offensive

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Live updates | Fighting in southern Gaza city as Israel widens its offensive

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Live updates | Fighting in conditions in Gaza worsen as Israel widens its offensive

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In this photo provided by the North Korean government, Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov, left, shakes hands with North Korean Foreign Minister Choe Son-hui on his arrival at Pyongyang international airport, North Korea Wednesday, Oct. 18, 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)

Russian foreign minister offers security talks with North Korea, China as he visits Pyongyang

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A woman walks by a UN sign at the UN buffer zone inside Pyla village, outskirt of coastal city of Larnaca, Cyprus, Thursday, Jan. 8, 2009. Three United Nations soldiers had to be treated for minor injuries after angry Turkish Cypriots punched and kicked a group of peacekeepers who obstructed crews working on a road that would encroach on a U.N.-controlled buffer zone in ethnically divided Cyprus. The U.N. said Friday, Aug. 18, 2023, the assault happened as peacekeepers stood in the way of work crews building a road to connect the village of Arsos in the breakaway Turkish Cypriot north with the mixed Greek Cypriot-Turkish Cypriot village of Pyla. (AP Photo/Petros Karadjias, File)

Turkey says U.N. lost neutrality after world body condemns Cyprus roadwork, assault on peacekeepers

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Linda Thomas-Greenfield, United States ambassador to the United Nations speaks during the UN Security Council meeting to discuss the maintenance of peace and security of Ukraine, Friday, July 21, 2023, at United Nations headquarters. (AP Photo/Eduardo Munoz Alvarez)

U.S. keeping Syria’s chemical weapons program in U.N. spotlight over Russian, Chinese opposition

By Edith M. Lederer - Associated Press

FILE - In this July 11, 2021 file photo, Pope Francis appears on the Agostino Gemelli Polyclinic balcony in Rome, where he was recovering from intestinal surgery, for the traditional Sunday blessing and Angelus prayer. Pope Francis went to the hospital Wednesday, June 7, 2023, to undergo abdominal surgery to treat an intestinal blockage, two years after he had his colon removed 33 centimeters (13 inches) because of inflammation and narrowing of the large intestine. (AP Photo/Alessandra Tarantino, file)

Pope joins with imam in making calls for peace before U.N. Security Council vote

By Edith M. Lederer - Associated Press

This photo provided by the North Korean government, Kim Yo Jong, sister of North Korean leader Kim Jong Un, delivers a speech during a national meeting against the coronavirus, in Pyongyang, North Korea on Aug. 10, 2022. 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 Central News Agency/Korea News Service via AP, File)

Kim Jong-un’s sister slams U.S. for criticizing failed satellite launch

By Kim Tong-Hyung - Associated Press

Erik Mose, Chair of the Independent International Commission of Inquiry on Ukraine, speaks about the release of comprehensive report by the UN Independent International Commission of Inquiry on Ukraine to the Human Rights Council, during a press conference at the European headquarters of the United Nations in Geneva, Switzerland, Thursday, March 16, 2023. A U.N.-backed investigation has found that Russian attacks against civilians in Ukraine, including systematic torture and killing in occupied regions, amount to war crimes and possibly crimes against humanity. (Martial Trezzini/Keystone via AP)

U.N.-backed inquiry accuses Russia of war crimes in Ukraine

By Lori Hinnant and Jamey Keaten - Associated Press

FILE - Pipes at the landfall facilities of the 'Nord Stream 2' gas pipline are pictured in Lubmin, northern Germany, on Feb. 15, 2022. Russia clashed with the United States and other Western nations Tuesday, Feb. 21, 2023 over the Kremlin’s call for a U.N. investigation of last September’s sabotage of the Nord Stream 1 and 2 gas pipelines from Russia to Western Europe. (AP Photo/Michael Sohn, File)

Russia and West clash over probe of Nord Stream sabotage

By Edith M. Lederer - Associated Press

FILE - An aerial view shows a large refugee camp on the Syrian side of the border with Turkey, near the town of Atma, in Idlib province, Syria, April 19, 2020. Syrians in the last major rebel stronghold in the war-ton country are living in fear of the effects of Russia closing down the only border crossing into the northwestern province of Idlib. Aid agencies warn that if Russia vetoes the resolution that would maintain two border crossing points from Turkey to deliver humanitarian aid, food would be depleted in Idlib and surrounding areas by September, 2022, putting the lives of some 4.1 million people, at risk. (AP Photo/Ghaith Alsayed, File)

Syrians fear effects of Russia blocking aid to rebel area

By Ghaith Al—Sayed and Bassem Mroue - Associated Press

In this file photo from Jan. 7, 2020, Syrian President Bashar Assad, left, gestures while speaking to Russian President Vladimir Putin during their meeting in Damascus, Syria. (Alexei Druzhinin, Sputnik, Kremlin Pool Photo via AP, File) **FILE**

Russia: It’s time to stop aid from Turkey to Syrian rebels

By Edith M. Lederer - Associated Press

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy, left, shares a word with United States Secretary of State Antony Blinken on the occasion of their meeting at the Bankova, in Kyiv, Ukraine, Wednesday, Jan. 19, 2022, in Kyiv, Ukraine. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon, Pool)

Blinken, Russia’s Lavrov talk on Ukraine crisis after bitter U.N. exchanges

By David R. Sands - The Washington Times