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UN says Yemen’s warring parties refuse to meet together

By EDITH M. LEDERER - Associated Press

In this Dec. 22, 2018, file photo, Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas gestures as he speaks during a meeting of the Palestinian leadership in the West Bank city of Ramallah. The Western-backed Palestinian Authority is threatening to step up pressure on Hamas amid renewed tensions in Gaza, even as Israel allows a lifeline of Qatari aid to flow directly to the Islamic militants. Abbas wants to reassert his authority over Gaza, while Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu seeks to preserve calm ahead of April's elections. (AP Photo/Majdi Mohammed, File)

UN chief backs 2-state solution in talks with Palestinians

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Tomas Ojea Quintana, the United Nations special rapporteur on the situation of human rights in North Korea, speaks during a press conference in Seoul, South Korea, Friday, Jan. 11, 2019. Quintana says negotiations on North Korea's denuclearization must also include its abysmal human rights situation. (AP Photo/Ahn Young-joon)

UN expert: N.Korea nuclear talks should include human rights

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Rahaf Mohammed Alqunun, right, walks with an unidentified companion in Bangkok, Thailand, Friday, Jan. 11, 2019. Alqunun, the 18-year old Saudi woman who fled her family to seek asylum, remains in Thailand under the care of the U.N. refugee agency as she awaits a decision by a third country to accept her as a refugee. (AP Photo/Sakchai Lalit)

The Latest: Canada grants asylum to Saudi woman

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In this photo taken Tuesday, March 24, 2015, tanks seized recently by militiamen loyal to Yemen's President Abed Rabbo Mansour Hadi take positions at the Al-Anad Air Base in the southern province of Lahej, 60 kilometers (35 miles) north of Aden, Yemen. (AP Photo/Wael Qubady) ** FILE **

Rebel drone bombs Yemen military parade, kills at least 6

By Ahmed Al-Haj - Associated Press

Yemeni groups call on WFP to reveal aid ‘corruption’

By SAMY MAGDY - Associated Press

UN envoy: No new Yemen talks until major progress on Hodeida

By EDITH M. LEDERER - Associated Press

A TV screen shows the live broadcast of South Korean President Moon Jae-in's press conference in Seoul, South Korea, Thursday, Jan. 10, 2019. Moon has suggested he'll push for sanction exemptions to restart dormant economic cooperation projects with North Korea. The slug reads: &quot;Basic pension expansion.&quot;(AP Photo/Ahn Young-joon)

SKorea wants sanction exemptions to restart NKorea projects

By HYUNG-JIN KIM - Associated Press

Guatemala's President Jimmy Morales, flanked by his cabinet, gives a statement at the National Palace in Guatemala City, Monday, Jan. 7, 2019. Guatemala announced that it is going to withdraw from UN-sponsored anti-corruption commission. (AP Photo/Moises Castillo)

Guatemala pulls out of UN corruption body, expels members

By SONIA PEREZ D. and JENNIFER PELTZ - Associated Press

In this Monday, Jan. 7, 2019, image made from video released by Rahaf Mohammed Alqunun/Human Rights Watch, Rahaf Mohammed Alqunan views her mobile phone as she sits barricaded in a hotel room at an international airport in Bangkok, Thailand. Alqunan says she is fleeing abuse by her family and wants asylum in Australia. (Rahaf Mohammed Alqunun/Human Rights Watch via AP)

The Latest: Saudi woman leaves Bangkok airport hotel room

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A caravan carrying Colombian national Yilen Osorio, a member of the International Commission Against Impunity in Guatemala (CICIG) leaves the La Aurora International Airport in Guatemala City, Sunday, Jan. 6, 2019. Authorities in Guatemala were holding Osorio, a member of the U.N.-sponsored anti-corruption commission in the capital's airport on Sunday, refusing him entry to the country in an escalation of tensions between the government and the commission. (AP Photo/Santiago Billy)

The Latest: UN rebuffs Guatemala’s pullout from commission

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Clemson's Trevor Lawrence answers questions during media day for the NCAA college football playoff championship game Saturday, Jan. 5, 2019, in Santa Clara, Calif. (AP Photo/David J. Phillip)

The Latest: Clemson returns home to thousands of fans

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A caravan carrying Colombian national Yilen Osorio, a member of the International Commission Against Impunity in Guatemala (CICIG) leaves the La Aurora International Airport in Guatemala City, Sunday, Jan. 6, 2019. Authorities in Guatemala were holding Osorio, a member of the U.N.-sponsored anti-corruption commission in the capital's airport on Sunday, refusing him entry to the country in an escalation of tensions between the government and the commission. (AP Photo/Santiago Billy)

Guatemala to withdraw from UN anti-corruption commission

By SONIA PEREZ D. and JENNIFER PELTZ - Associated Press

Prosecutors of the Guatemalan Attorney General's office take position inside the La Aurora International Airport in Guatemala City, late Saturday, Jan. 5, 2019. The Guatemalan government banned the entry of Yilen Osorio, an official of the International Commission Against Impunity in Guatemala (CICIG) and keeps it in the facilities of the La Aurora International Airport, despite the fact that the Constitutional Court ordered that they be granted visas and access to the members of the organism. (AP Photo/Santiago Billy)

Guatemala bars entry to UN-sponsored corruption investigator

By SONNY FIGUEROA and SONIA PEREZ D. - Associated Press

FILE - In this Wednesday, Feb. 18, 2015, file photo, Nicholas Haysom, then the top UN envoy in Afghanistan, speaks during a press conference in Kabul. Somalia's government on Tuesday, Jan. 1, 2019 ordered Nicholas Haysom, the United Nations envoy to Somalia, to leave amid questions over the arrest of the al-Shabab extremist group's former deputy leader Mukhtar Robow who had run for a regional presidency. (AP Photo/Massoud Hossaini, File)

Security Council regrets Somalia’s expulsion of UN envoy

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WFP calls on Yemen’s rebels to bring aid theft to an end

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FILE - In this Wednesday, Feb. 18, 2015, file photo, Nicholas Haysom, then the top UN envoy in Afghanistan, speaks during a press conference in Kabul. Somalia's government on Tuesday, Jan. 1, 2019 ordered Nicholas Haysom, the United Nations envoy to Somalia, to leave amid questions over the arrest of the al-Shabab extremist group's former deputy leader Mukhtar Robow who had run for a regional presidency. (AP Photo/Massoud Hossaini, File)

UN to send new envoy to Somalia after flap led to expulsion

By JENNIFER PELTZ - Associated Press

FILE - In this Wednesday, Feb. 18, 2015, file photo, Nicholas Haysom, then the top UN envoy in Afghanistan, speaks during a press conference in Kabul. Somalia's government on Tuesday, Jan. 1, 2019 ordered Nicholas Haysom, the United Nations envoy to Somalia, to leave amid questions over the arrest of the al-Shabab extremist group's former deputy leader Mukhtar Robow who had run for a regional presidency. (AP Photo/Massoud Hossaini, File)

Somalia and ousted UN envoy face off at Security Council

By JENNIFER PELTZ - Associated Press

FILE - In this Wednesday, Feb. 18, 2015, file photo, Nicholas Haysom, then the top UN envoy in Afghanistan, speaks during a press conference in Kabul. Somalia's government on Tuesday, Jan. 1, 2019 ordered Nicholas Haysom, the United Nations envoy to Somalia, to leave amid questions over the arrest of the al-Shabab extremist group's former deputy leader Mukhtar Robow who had run for a regional presidency. (AP Photo/Massoud Hossaini, File)

Somalia declares UN envoy persona non grata

By ABDI GULED - Associated Press

A worn-out list of registered names for aid by Relief International, part of the World Food Program, is posted in Aden, Yemen in this July 23, 2018 photo. The U.N.’s World Food Program has 5,000 distribution sites across the country targeting 10 million people a month with food baskets but says it can monitor only 20 percent of the deliveries. Armed factions on all sides of Yemen conflict are diverting aid for their own purposes, worsening the country’s humanitarian crisis, an AP investigation found. (AP Photo/Nariman El-Mofty)

Yemen rebels accuse UN of taking sides after aid ultimatum

By SAMY MAGDY - Associated Press