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A Ukrainian APC fires towards Russian positions near Avdiivka, in the Donetsk region, Ukraine, Friday, April 28, 2023. The United Nations is appealing for $4.2 billion to help people in Ukraine and displaced outside the country this year. It said Monday, Jan. 15, 2024, that people on the front lines have “exhausted their meager resources” and many refugees also are vulnerable. (AP Photo/Libkos, File)

United Nations seeks $4.2 billion to help people in Ukraine and refugees this year

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Republican presidential candidate former President Donald Trump talks with fire fighters at Waukee Fire Department in Waukee, Iowa, Sunday, Jan. 14, 2024, after he brought them pizza. North Dakota Gov. Doug Burgum and his wife Kathryn watch. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik)

Caucuses to set tone for showdown; Iowans firm up support for GOP candidates, brace for cold night

By Seth McLaughlin - The Washington Times

South Africa's Minister of Justice and Correctional Services Ronald Lamola, center, and Palestinian assistant Minister of Multilateral Affairs Ammar Hijazi, right, address the media outside the International Court of Justice in The Hague, Netherlands, Thursday, Jan. 11, 2024. The United Nations' top court opens hearings Thursday into South Africa's allegation that Israel's war with Hamas amounts to genocide against Palestinians, a claim that Israel strongly denies. (AP Photo/Patrick Post)

Live updates | Israel rejects genocide case as Mideast tensions rise after US-led strikes in Yemen

By The Associated Press - Associated Press

Smoke rises following an Israeli bombardment in the Gaza Strip, as seen from southern Israel, Saturday, Dec. 16, 2023. Israel is sending top legal minds, including a Holocaust survivor, to The Hague this week to counter allegations that it is committing genocide against Palestinians in Gaza. (AP Photo/Ariel Schalit, File)

South Africa tells the U.N. top court Israel is committing genocide in Gaza as landmark case begins

By Mike Corder - Associated Press

In this image provided by the U.S. Navy, the amphibious dock landing ship USS Carter Hall and amphibious assault ship USS Bataan transit the Bab al-Mandeb strait on Aug. 9, 2023. The top commander of U.S. naval forces in the Middle East says Yemen’s Houthi rebels are showing no signs of ending their “reckless” attacks on commercial ships in the Red Sea. But Vice Adm. Brad Cooper said in an Associated Press interview on Saturday that more nations are joining the international maritime mission to protect vessels in the vital waterway and trade traffic is beginning to pick up. (Mass Communications Spc. 2nd Class Moises Sandoval/U.S. Navy via AP) ** FILE **

Yemen’s Houthis launch their largest Red Sea drone and missile attack, though no damage is reported

By Jon Gambrell - Associated Press

Trucks carrying humanitarian aid line up at the Rafah Border Crossing, Egypt, on the way to Gaza, Sunday, Nov. 19, 2023. A cumbersome process of Israeli inspections and other hurdles is slowing the entry of aid into Gaza, two U.S. senators say after a visit to Egypt's Rafah crossing into to besieged territory. Hundreds of trucks are lined up at Rafah, sometimes waiting weeks to go through the process. (AP Photo/Amr Nabil, File)

Cumbersome process and ‘arbitrary’ Israeli inspections slow aid delivery into Gaza, US senators say

By Lee Keath - Associated Press

Members of the Abu Jarad family, who were displaced by the Israeli bombardment of the Gaza Strip, eat breakfast at a makeshift tent camp in the Muwasi area, southern Gaza, Monday, Jan. 1, 2024. (AP Photo/Fatima Shbair)

Desperate family in Gaza clings to a strict routine for survival

Associated Press

FILE - Mukhtar Babayev, Azerbaijan ecology and natural resources minister, attends a plenary stocktaking session at the COP28 U.N. Climate Summit, Monday, Dec. 11, 2023, in Dubai, United Arab Emirates. Babayev has been named to lead the United Nations' annual climate talks later this year, prompting concern from some climate activists over his former ties to the state oil company in a major oil-producing nation.(AP Photo/Rafiq Maqbool, File)

Azerbaijan names a former oil exec to lead climate talks. Activists have concerns

By Sibi Arasu - Associated Press

Rohingya refugees residing in Sri Lanka protest outside the UN's refugee agency office in Colombo, Sri Lanka, Tuesday, Jan. 2, 2024. (AP Photo/Eranga Jayawardena)

Rohingya refugees in Sri Lanka protest planned closure of U.N. office, fearing abandonment

By Krishan Francis - Associated Press

In this photo provided by the North Korean government, North Korean leader Kim Jong Un, second right, with his daughter and his wife Ri Sol Ju, left, attends a performance to celebrate the New Year in Pyongyang, North Korea, Sunday, Dec. 31, 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 says military should ‘thoroughly annihilate’ U.S., South Korea if provoked

By Hyung-Jin Kim - Associated Press

Yevgeny Prigozhin, the owner of the Wagner Group military company, arrives during a funeral ceremony at the Troyekurovskoye cemetery in Moscow, Russia, Saturday, April 8, 2023. From a hot dog vendor to head of the formidable mercenary army Wagner Group, Prigozhin's rise through Russian society could easily be described as meteoric. But it all came to a sudden end when the plane carrying him and others mysteriously exploded on Aug 23, 2023. (AP Photo, file)

Year in review: Influential people who died in 2023

By Bernard McGhee - Associated Press

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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FILE - South Korean Defense Minister Shin Wonsik speaks during a committee at the National Assembly in Seoul, South Korea, on Nov. 23, 2023. A light-water reactor at North Korea’s main nuclear complex will likely be formally operational by next summer, South Korea’s defense minister said, amid suspicions that the North may use it as a new source of fissile materials for nuclear weapons. (Han Jong-chan/Yonhap via AP, File)

North Korea’s new reactor at nuclear site likely to be formally operational next summer, Seoul says

By Hyung-Jin Kim - Associated Press

Israeli soldiers take up positions near the Gaza Strip border, in southern Israel, Friday, Dec. 29, 2023. The army is battling Palestinian militants across Gaza in the war ignited by Hamas' Oct. 7 attack into Israel. (AP Photo/Ariel Schalit)

Palestinians stream into Gaza town as Israel expands its offensive in the center

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FILE - View of the Peace Palace which houses World Court in The Hague, Netherlands, on Sept. 19, 2023. South Africa has launched a case at the United Nations’ top court accusing Israel of genocide against Palestinians in Gaza and asking the court to order Israel to halt its attacks. South Africa’s submission filed Friday, Dec. 29, 2023, at the International Court of Justice alleges that “acts and omissions by Israel ... are genocidal in character”.. (AP Photo/Peter Dejong)

South Africa launches case at United Nations’ top court accusing Israel of genocide in Gaza

By Mike Corder - Associated Press

A Palestinian woman displaced by the Israeli bombardment of the Gaza Strip sits outside a destroyed home in Rafah, Wednesday, Dec. 27, 2023. (AP Photo/Hatem Ali)

Live updates | UN warns of impeded aid deliveries as Israel expands offensive in Gaza

By The Associated Press - Associated Press

Republican presidential candidate Nikki Haley speaks during a town hall, Dec. 18, 2023, in Nevada, Iowa. Haley is betting her 2024 candidacy on winning South Carolina. But the politics of Haley's home state have shifted far to the right since she was governor. That threatens her ability to tap into her local roots to notch the victory she has promised.(AP Photo/Charlie Neibergall, File)

Nikki Haley has bet her 2024 bid on South Carolina. But much of her home state leans toward Trump

By Meg Kinnard - Associated Press

The role of international nongovernmental organizations (NGO) and U.N. agencies in Gaza humanitarian crisis illustration by Alexander Hunter/The Washington Times

The hidden role of international NGOs in Gaza humanitarian crisis

By Naftali Balanson

A Palestinian man mourns a relative killed in the Israeli bombardment of the Gaza Strip outside a morgue, in Khan Younis on Saturday, Dec. 23, 2023. (AP Photo/Mohammed Dahman)

Israel strikes 2 homes and kills more than 90 Palestinians as troops expand south Gaza offensive

By Najib Jobain and Samy Magdy - Associated Press

The United Nations in Gaza illustration by Greg Groesch / The Washington Times

Move the United Nations to Gaza

By Don Feder