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Nigeria’s military lifts suspension of UNICEF activities

By BASHIR ADIGUN - Associated Press

In this photo taken Sunday, Dec. 9, 2018, a young girl carries water on her head in Koythiey displaced person's camp on the outskirts of Bentiu town in South Sudan. Six months ago planning ahead in civil war-torn South Sudan seemed impossible but now, after warring sides signed a new peace deal in September that the government vows will hold, some are starting to rebuild their lives. (AP Photo/Sam Mednick)

South Sudan starts planning for life beyond war, cautiously

By SAM MEDNICK - Associated Press

Participants leave before the end of the final session of the COP24 summit on climate change in Katowice, Poland, Friday, Dec. 14, 2018.(AP Photo/Czarek Sokolowski)

Nations at U.N. climate talks back universal emissions rules

By Frank Jordans - Associated Press

In this Monday, Dec. 10, 2018 photo toxic froth from industrial pollution floats on Bellundur Lake in Bangalore, India. As politicians haggle at a U.N. climate conference in Poland over ways to limit global warming, the industries and machines powering our modern world keep spewing their pollution into the air and water. The fossil fuels extracted from beneath the earth's crust _ coal, oil and gas _ are transformed into the carbon dioxide that is now heating the earth faster than scientists had expected even a few years ago. (AP Photo/Aijaz Rahi)

The Latest: UN climate talks agree on reporting emissions

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In this Thursday, Dec. 13, 2018 photo, Israeli military equipment works at the Lebanese-Israeli border next to a wall that was built by Israel in the southern village of Kafr Kila, Lebanon. As Israeli excavators dig into the rocky ground, Lebanese across the frontier gather curiously to watch in real time what Israel calls the Northern Shield operation aimed at destroying attack tunnels built by Hezbollah. But Lebanese soldiers in new camouflaged posts, behind sandbags, or inside abandoned homes underscore the real anxiety that any misstep could lead to a conflagration between the two enemy states that no one seems to want. (AP Photo/Hussein Malla)

Lebanese wary as Israel destroys Hezbollah border tunnels

By SARAH EL DEEB - Associated Press

UN inquiry urged into Central African Republic massacre

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President Donald Trump listens during a meeting with newly elected governors in the Cabinet Room of the White House, Thursday, Dec. 13, 2018, in Washington. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)

The Latest: Chile to host next year’s UN climate summit

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Martin Griffiths, top, the United Nations envoy for Yemen, gives a video briefing to the Security Council at U.N. headquarters Friday, Dec. 14, 2018. Griffiths told the council that a speedy presence in the field is &quot;an essential part of the confidence&quot; needed to accompany implementation of Thursday's agreement between Yemen's government and Houthi Shiite rebels. (Eskinder Debebe/United Nations via AP)

UN envoy: UN monitors needed to observe Yemen cease-fire

By EDITH M. LEDERER - Associated Press

UN: Venezuela exodus likely to swell to 5.3 million in 2019

By CHRISTINE ARMARIO - Associated Press

Kosovo president Hashim Thaci, center, flanked by KSF Commander Rrahman Rama as they inspect members of Kosovo Security Force in capital Pristina, Kosovo, on Thursday, Dec. 13, 2018. Kosovo lawmakers are set to transform the Kosovo Security Force into a regular army, a move that significantly heightened tension with neighboring Serbia. (AP Photo/Visar Kryeziu)

Serbia talks up armed intervention as Kosovo OKs new army

By FLORENT BAJRAMI and LLAZAR SEMINI - Associated Press

A tramway at a stop near the &quot;Spodek&quot; arena, part of the venue where U.N. climate talks are help on ways of combating global warming in Katowice, Poland, Wednesday, Dec. 12, 2018.(AP Photo/Czarek Sokolowski)

The Latest: Climate delegate: ‘What’s the point?’ of talks

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UN approves aid deliveries across borders to Syrians

By EDITH M. LEDERER - Associated Press

Kristine Tompkins celebrates new Argentina marine parks

By LUIS ANDRES HENAO - Associated Press

FILE - In this July 18, 2018 file photo embattled UNAIDS chief Michel Sidibe poses for photographers before attending a press conference, in Paris, France. The head of the U.N. agency focusing on AIDS says he’ll leave his post in June, an early departure announced a week after independent experts looking into sexual harassment at UNAIDS blasted its “defective leadership.” (AP Photo/Thibault Camus, file)

UNAIDS head to quit post early following scathing report

By JAMEY KEATEN - Associated Press

Martin Griffith, special envoy for Yemen of the U.N. Secretary General, attends a press conference at Johannesberg Palace, north of Stockholm on Monday Dec. 10, 2018. Yemen's warring parties are meeting for a fifth day of talks in Sweden aimed at halting the country's catastrophic 4-year-old war. (Stina Stjernkvist/TT via AP)

The Latest: US welcomes progress from Yemen peace talks

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UN extends Central African Republic peacekeeping mission

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Abdelqader al-Murtada and Saelem Mohammed Noman Al-Mughalles, at left, representatives of the Houthi rebels delegation and to the right, Askar Zaeil and Hadi al-Hayi representing the delegation of the Government of Yemen together with representatives from the office of the UN Special Envoy for Yemen and the International Red Cross Committee (ICRC) during the ongoing peace talks on Yemen held at Johannesberg Castle, in Rimbo, north of Stockholm, Sweden, December 11, 2018. Yemen's government and the Houthi rebels are exchanging lists of prisoners as part of peace talks in Sweden aimed at winding down the devastating civil war. (Claudio Bresciani/TT via AP)

U.N. chief says Yemen’s warring sides agreed on Hodeida truce

By David Keyton and Brian Rohan - Associated Press

The Latest: Ex-VP Gore thinks Trump may help climate cause

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Houthi fighters take part in a protest calling for the reopening of Sanaa airport to receive medical aid, in front of the U.N. offices in Sanaa, Yemen, Monday, Dec. 10, 2018. (AP Photo/Hani Mohammed)

The Latest: Yemen rebels accept some of UN envoy’s proposals

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A climate activist walks by shelves filled with specially grown pro-climate plants at a Greenpeace area, during U.N. climate talks on ways of combating global warming, in Katowice, Poland, Wednesday, Dec. 12, 2018.(AP Photo/Czarek Sokolowski)

Polish chairman says UN climate talks call for higher effort

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