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A studio monitor broadcast live Angelina Jolie, United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees special envoy, as she address a meeting on U.N. peacekeeping at U.N. headquarters, Friday, March 29, 2019. (AP Photo/Bebeto Matthews)

Angelina Jolie: Equality for women key to peaceful world

By EDITH M. LEDERER - Associated Press

UN expert wants trial suspects in Khashoggi’s killing named

Associated Press

France warns UN against unilateral path to Mideast peace

By EDITH M. LEDERER - Associated Press

In this photo released by the Syrian official news agency SANA, Syrians hold national flags and portraits of Syrian President President Bashar Assad during a protest against President Donald Trump's move to recognize Israeli sovereignty over the occupied Golan Heights, in Homs, Syria, Tuesday, March 26, 2019. Syria's state news agency says thousands of Syrians have held gatherings in the streets of different cities to protest Trump's signing of a declaration reversing US policy on the Golan Heights. (SANA via AP)

Trump acceptance of Israeli control of Golan sparks protests

By ALBERT AJI - Associated Press

UN rights experts decry Big Finance moves in housing market

Associated Press

A woman carrying water and a baby on her back after collecting water in Beira, Mozambique, Monday, March 25, March 24, 2019. (AP Photo/Themba Hadebe)

‘Second disaster’ warned in Mozambique as cholera a concern

By NQOBILE NTSHANGASE - Associated Press

FILE- In this Sept. 27, 2018 file photo, a girl is treated for a suspected cholera infection at a hospital in Hodeida, Yemen. A Monday, March 25, 2019, report from the U.N. Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs said Yemen has witnessed a sharp spike in the number of suspected cholera cases this year, as well as increased displacement in a northern province. The UN agency said 100,000 suspected cholera cases were found across Yemen from the beginning of the year until March, and over 190 people have died. (AP Photo/Hani Mohammed, File)

UN warns of spike in cholera, displacement in Yemen

Associated Press

UN officials: 13 million in Congo need aid in major increase

By EDITH M. LEDERER - Associated Press

A World Food Programme (WFP) helicopter takes off, in Beira, Mozambique, Friday, March 22, 2019. A week after Cyclone Idai hit coastal Mozambique and swept across the country to Zimbabwe, its death, destruction and flooding continues to grow in southern Africa, making it one of the most destructive natural disasters in the region's recent history. (AP Photo/Themba Hadebe)

UN makes urgent appeal to help victims of Mozambique cyclone

By CARA ANNA - Associated Press

This booking photo provided by the Alexandria Sheriffs Office, in Virginia, shows Chelsea Manning. On Friday, March 8, 2019, Manning, who served years in prison for leaking one of the largest troves of classified documents in U.S. history, was sent to jail for refusing to testify before a grand jury investigating Wikileaks. (Alexandria Sheriffs Office via AP)

Chelsea Manning subjected to effective solitary confinement since jailed for contempt: Supporters

By Andrew Blake - The Washington Times

UN chief visits mosque, stresses sanctity of religious sites

By EDITH M. LEDERER - Associated Press

In this file photo, reigning chess world champion Magnus Carlsen, from Norway, plays Italian-American challenger Fabiano Caruana, left, in the first few minutes of round 12 of their World Chess Championship Match in London, Monday, Nov. 26, 2018. In a match played on March 21, 2019, Mr. Carlsen and his opponent Anish Giri agreed to break a longstanding rule of the game by allowing the Black pieces the first move, a symbolic statement speaking out against racism on the U.N.'s International Day for the Elimination of Racism (AP Photo/Matt Dunham). **FILE**

In anti-racist statement, chess champs let Black move first

By David R. Sands - The Washington Times

The head of the revolutionary committee of Yemen's Shiite Houthi rebels, Mohammed Ali al-Houthi speaks to a reporter during an interview with Associated Press in Sanaa, Yemen, Tuesday March 19, 2019. (AP Photo/Hani Mohammed)

US diplomat criticizes Yemen rebels for stalling peace deal

By MAGGIE MICHAEL - Associated Press

In this Dec. 3, 2018, file photo, Nikki Haley speaks during the Hudson Institute's 2018 Award Gala in New York. (AP Photo/Kevin Hagen, File) ** FILE **

Nikki Haley jabs Bernie Sanders for tweets on childbirth costs

By Bailey Vogt - The Washington Times

FILE- In this Oct. 3, 2017, file photo, Sri Lankan President Maithripala Sirisena, left, and Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe attend a special session held to mark the country's seventieth anniversary of the first parliament of democracy, in Colombo, Sri Lanka. Sirisena has kept his country’s internal political rift from spilling over to a UN human rights council meeting this week by abandoning plans to oppose his prime minister’s decision to co-sponsor a resolution that would give the island nation more time to address war crime allegations stemming from its long civil war. The co-resolution to be adopted on March 21, 2019 would give Sri Lanka two more years to investigate and prosecute suspects of rights violations. (AP Photo/Eranga Jayawardena, File)

Sri Lanka averts rift spilling over to UN rights session

By KRISHAN FRANCIS - Associated Press

FILE - In this Aug. 25, 1992 file photo, Radovan Karadzic, Bosnian Serb leader in Bosnia-Herzegovina, indicates the Serb territories in Yugoslavia during a news conference in London. Nearly a quarter of a century since Bosnia’s devastating war ended, former Bosnian Serb leader Radovan Karadzic is set to hear the final judgment on whether he can be held criminally responsible for unleashing a wave of murder and destruction during Europe’s bloodiest carnage since World War II. United Nations appeals judges on Wednesday March 20, 2019, will decide whether to uphold or overturn Karadzic’s 2016 convictions for genocide, crimes against humanity and war crimes and his 40-year sentence. (AP Photo/Denis Paquin, File)

The Latest: Views of Bosnia war crimes case vary within govt

Associated Press

A family dig for their son who got buried in the mud when Cyclone Idai struck in Chimanimani about 600 kilometres south east of Harare, Zimbabwe, Tuesday, March, 19, 2019. According to the government, Cyclone Idai has killed more than 100 people in Chipinge and Chimanimani and according to residents the figures could be higher because the hardest hit areas are still inaccessible. Some hundreds are dead, many more are missing, and some thousands at risk from the massive flooding in Mozambique, Malawi and Zimbabwe caused by Cyclone Idai.(AP Photo/Tsvangirayi Mukwazhi)

Foreign aid begins flowing to cyclone-hit southern Africa

By MATT SEDENSKY - Associated Press

AP Interview: Yemen’s rebels say they won’t give up port

By AHMED AL-HAJ - Associated Press

In this Friday, March 8, 2019 photo provided by the United Nations, Phumzile Mlambo-Ngcuka, third from right, executive director of UN Women, speaks at the United Nations Observance of International Women's Day at the United Nations headquarters. Mlambo-Ngcuka is calling for the revolution in technology to be used to benefit the world's poor and especially women who will not achieve gender equality without "the giant leap that 21st century innovations can bring." At left is U.N. secretary General Antonio Guterres, and at right is Geraldine Byrne-Nason, chair of the Commission on the Status of Women and Permanent Representative of Ireland to the United Nations. (Eskinder Debebe/The United Nations via AP) **FILE**

Don’t erase women at the United Nations

By Grace Melton

UN report: Sex abuse in UN peacekeeping drops, up elsewhere

By EDITH M. LEDERER - Associated Press