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Iranian Deputy Ambassador to the United Nations Eshagh Al-Habib speaks during a Security Council meeting on Iran's compliance with the 2015 nuclear agreement, Wednesday, Dec. 12, 2018, at United Nations headquarters. (AP Photo/Mary Altaffer)

The Latest: Iran accuses US of ‘lies’ about its missiles

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UN demands immediate halt to attacks in Ebola areas in Congo

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The chairman of the Norwegian Nobel Peace Prize Committee, Berit Reiss-Andersen, left, and the committee secretary Olav Njolstad, announce the 2018 Nobel Peace Prize in the Nobel Institute in Oslo, Friday, OCt. 5, 2018. The Nobel Peace Prize committee awarded The 2018 Nobel Peace Prize to Denis Mukwege and Nadia Murad. (Terje Pedersen/NTB Scanpix via AP)

The Latest: Lawyer Clooney says client’s Nobel sends message

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UN council support tough action for peacekeeping failures

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FILE - In this Dec. 12, 2017, file photo, Russian President Vladimir Putin addresses the troops at the Hemeimeem air base in Syria. When the presidents of Russia, Turkey and Iran meet in Tehran Friday, Sept. 7, all eyes will be on their diplomacy averting a bloodbath in Idlib, Syria's crowded northwestern province and last opposition stronghold. The three leaders whose nations are all under U.S. sanctions have an interest in working together, but Idlib is complicated and they have little common ground. (Mikhail Klimentyev/Pool Photo via AP, File)

The Latest: Britain and Russia clash at UN over poisonings

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France proposes sanctions against Mali peace deal spoilers

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UN condemns rising incitement to hatred in CAfrican Republic

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Russian President Vladimir Putin, right, and Syrian President Bashar Assad watch the troops marching at the Hemeimeem air base in Syria, on Monday, Dec. 11, 2017. Declaring a victory in Syria, Putin on Monday visited a Russian military air base in the country and announced a partial pullout of Russian forces from the Mideast nation. (Mikhail Klimentyev, Sputnik, Kremlin Pool Photo via AP)

Bashar Assad said Syria strikes based on ‘lies and misinformation’

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EDS NOTE: GRAPHIC CONTENT - This image released early Sunday, April 8, 2018 by the Syrian Civil Defense White Helmets, shows a rescue worker carrying a child following an alleged chemical weapons attack in the rebel-held town of Douma, near Damascus, Syria. Syrian rescuers and medics say a poison gas attack on Douma has killed at least 40 people. The Syrian government denied the allegations, which could not be independently verified. The alleged attack in the town of Douma occurred Saturday night amid a resumed offensive by Syrian government forces after the collapse of a truce. (Syrian Civil Defense White Helmets via AP)

The Latest: UN seeks way to address chemical arms in Syria

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Police officers position a screen outside the vehicle recovery business &quot;Ashley Wood Recovery&quot; in Salisbury, England, Tuesday, March 13, 2018. The use of Russian-developed nerve agent Novichok to poison former-spy Sergei Skripal and his daughter Yulia makes it &quot;highly likely&quot; that Russia was involved, British Prime Minister Theresa May said Monday. Novichok refers to a class of nerve agents developed in the Soviet Union near the end of the Cold War. (AP Photo/Matt Dunham)

The Latest: Envoy denies Russia was behind attack on ex-spy

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This photo released on Saturday, Feb 24, 2018, by the Syrian Civil Defense group known as the White Helmets, shows members of the Syrian Civil Defense group carrying a young man who was wounded during airstrikes and shelling by Syrian government forces, in Ghouta, a suburb of Damascus, Syria. A new wave of airstrikes and shelling on eastern suburbs of the Syrian capital Damascus left at least 22 people dead and more than a dozen wounded Saturday, raising the death toll of a week of bombing in the area to nearly 500, including scores of women and children. (Syrian Civil Defense White Helmets via AP)

The Latest: DM: Putin orders daily pauses in Syria’s Ghouta

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The Latest: Israel military finds no wrong in shooting probe

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UN Security Council to hold ministerial meeting on NKorea

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This image made from video of a news bulletin aired by North Korea's KRT on Nov. 29, 2017, shows an image of North Korea's leader Kim Jong Un signing what is said to be a document on Nov. 28, 2017, authorizing a missile test. After two and a half months of relative peace, North Korea launched its most powerful weapon yet early Wednesday, claiming a new type of intercontinental ballistic missile that some observers believe could put Washington and the entire eastern U.S. seaboard within range. Independent journalists were not given access to cover the event depicted in this photo. (KRT via AP Video)

The Latest: Japan says UN must keep pressure on NKorea

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Japan's Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, left, meets with United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres on Tuesday, Sept. 19, 2017, at U.N. headquarters. (AP Photo/Craig Ruttle)

The Latest: US calls for meeting on weapons proliferation

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FILE - In this Sept. 3, 2017, file photo, Earthquake and Volcano of the Korea Monitoring Division Director Ryoo Yong-gyu speaks to the media about North Korea's artificial earthquake with a map of the Korean peninsular in Seoul, South Korea. North Korea launched an intermediate-range missile that flew over Japan in its longest-ever flight on Friday, Sept. 15, 2017, showing that leader Kim Jong Un is defiantly pushing to bolster his weapons programs despite U.S.-led international pressure. (AP Photo/Lee Jin-man, File)

The Latest: UN Security council condemns North Korea’s test

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United States Ambassador to the United Nations Nikki Haley speaks to China's U.N. Ambassador Liu Jieyi after a vote to adopt a new sanctions resolution against North Korea during a meeting of the U.N. Security Council at U.N. headquarters, Monday, Sept. 11, 2017. (AP Photo/Jason DeCrow)

The Latest: NKorea rejects UN sanctions, says US will suffer

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FILE - In this July 23, 2016, file photo, farmers work their fields outside the Sungri Chemical Factory, an oil refinery in the Rason Special Economic Zone near North Korea's Russian and Chinese borders. North Korea will be feeling the pain of new United Nations’ sanctions targeting some of its biggest remaining foreign revenue streams, like textiles, joint ventures and remittances from its legion of workers abroad. But Pyongyang is almost certainly breathing a sigh of relieve that the Security Council eased off the biggest target of all, North Korea’s access to the oil it needs to stay alive - and to fuel its million-man military. (AP Photo/Eric Talmadge, File)

Oil will keep flowing, but UN sanctions hit North Korea hard

By ERIC TALMADGE - Associated Press

In this Sept. 5, 2017 photo, trucks transport goods to North Korea through the Friendship Bridge linking China and North Korea, as seen from Dandong in northeastern China's Liaoning Province. While condemning North Korea over its latest nuclear test, the leaders of Russia and South Korea seemed far apart on the issue of stepping up sanctions against the country. (Minoru Iwasaki/Kyodo News via AP)

The Latest: Mexico expels North Korea’s ambassador

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Russian President Vladimir Putin attends the Dialogue of Emerging Market and Developing Countries on the sideline of the BRICS Summit in Xiamen, China, Sept. 5, 2017. (Wu Hong/Pool Photo via AP)

Vladimir Putin, Russian president, calls for U.N. peacekeepers in eastern Ukraine

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