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American Secretary of State Mike Pompeo adjusts his tie 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: Russian envoy knocks UN policy on Iran

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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)

U.N. envoy hands Yemen’s warring sides draft deal

By David Keyton and Samy Magdy - Associated Press

A metal sculpture sits in front of the Brandenburg Gate in Berlin Tuesday, Dec. 11, 2018 as Greenpeace activists protest against Germany's strategy against global warming. (Gregor Fischer/dpa via AP)

The Latest: German minister stresses future for coal workers

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UN says Islamic State kills 6 captives in Libya

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FILE - In this June 5, 2014, file photo, a man rides a bicycle through a part of Homs, Syria, devastated by the country's civil war. Climate Change is more than rising thermometers, wildfires, droughts and storms; it even has a hand in altering whale songs, flowering plants and civil war. Numerous studies have said it was a factor in record setting drought in Syria- one of several causes of the country’s civil war that triggered a massive refugee crisis. (AP Photo/Dusan Vranic, File)

Russia says 114,000 Syrians returned home in 2018

By VLADIMIR ISHACHENKOV and SARAH EL DEEB - Associated Press

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)

Yemen’s warring sides said to agree on prisoner swap

By DAVID KEYTON and SAMY MAGDY - Associated Press

Yemenis hold banners as they 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)

UN: 20 million Yemenis are hungry, 250,000 face catastrophe

By EDITH M. LEDERER - Associated Press

FILE - In this April 27, 2018, file photo, a North Korean flag flutters in the wind atop a 160-meter tower in North Korea's village Gijungdongseen, as seen from the Taesungdong freedom village inside the demilitarized zone in Paju, South Korea. South Korean prosecutors on Monday, Dec. 10, 2018, have charged four people with illegally importing North Korean coal via Russia in violation of U.N. sanctions. (AP Photo/Lee Jin-man, File)

S. Korea charges 4 with illegally importing N. Korean coal

By HYUNG-JIN KIM - Associated Press

Swedish young activist, 15-year-old Greta Thunberg, right, speaks to climate activists during the March for Climate in a protest against global warming in Katowice, Poland, Saturday, Dec. 8, 2018, as the COP24 UN Climate Change Conference takes place in the city. (AP Photo/Alik Keplicz)

The Latest: Catholic pilgrims bear climate change warning

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German Chancellor Angela Merkel addresses delegates during the opening session of a UN Migration Conference in Marrakech, Morocco, Monday, Dec.10, 2018. Top U.N. officials and government leaders from about 150 countries are uniting around an agreement on migration, while finding themselves on the defensive about the non-binding deal amid criticism and a walkout from the United States and some other countries. (AP Photo/Mosa'ab Elshamy)

Nearly 85 percent of UN nations back migration deal; not US

By AMIRA EL MASAITI and JAMEY KEATEN - Associated Press

Yemen’s warring sides negotiating truce for key port Hodeida

By BRIAN ROHAN - Associated Press

U.N. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres arrives to attend a UN Migration Conference in Marrakech, Morocco, Monday, Dec.10, 2018. Top U.N. officials and government leaders from about 150 countries are uniting around an agreement on migration, while finding themselves on the defensive about the non-binding deal amid criticism and a walkout from the United States and some other countries. (AP Photo/Mosa'ab Elshamy)

The Latest: Red Cross: Migrant policy mustn’t add suffering

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UN sends aid to hundreds of thousands in war-torn Syria

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FILE - In this Aug. 9, 2017, file photo, State Department spokeswoman Heather Nauert speaks during a briefing at the State Department in Washington. President Donald Trump is expected to nominate Nauert to be the next U.S. ambassador to the United Nations. Two administration officials confirmed Trump’s plans. A Republican congressional aide said the president was expected to announce his decision by tweet on Friday morning, Dec. 7, 2018. The officials were not authorized to speak publicly. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon, File)

Top GOP senator needs to know more about Trump’s UN pick

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In this photo taken Friday, Dec. 7, 2018, women and girls walk back after getting food in Bentiu, a 38 kilometers (24 miles) journey using a path through the bush for fear of being attacked on the main road, near Nhialdu in South Sudan. Rape has been used widely as a weapon in South Sudan and even after a peace deal was signed in September, humanitarians have warned of higher rates of sexual assault as growing numbers of desperate people try to reach aid. (AP Photo/Sam Mednick)

At scene of South Sudan mass rape, ‘no one could hear me’

By SAM MEDNICK - Associated Press

Yemen's Minister of Agriculture and Irrigation Othman Hussein Faid Mujali, right, speaks to journalists during the ongoing peace talks on Yemen held at Johannesberg Castle, in Rimbo, Sweden, Friday, Dec. 7, 2018. The United Nations’ refugee agency said Friday that there have been nearly 1,500 civilian casualties in Yemen from August through October, the latest grim tally to emerge from a 4-year civil war as opposing parties meet for talks in Sweden. (Janerik Henriksson/TT via AP)

Yemen peace talks in Sweden focus on prisoner swap deal

By IVANA BZGANOVIC - Associated Press

White House Chief of Staff John Kelly, right, leans in to talk with President Donald Trump during Trump's meeting with Portuguese President Marcelo Rebelo de Sousa, in the Oval Office of the White House in Washington, Wednesday, June 27, 2018. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais) ** FILE **

Donald Trump says chief of staff Kelly will leave at end of year

By Dave Boyer - The Washington Times

In this Feb. 12, 2018, file photo, Saudi-led coalition backed forces patrol Mocha, Yemen. Envoys from Yemen’s warring parties are headed to Sweden for another round of peace talks to stop the three-year-old war, but with few incentives to compromise, expectations are low for little more than improving a faltering de-escalation.(AP Photo/Nariman El-Mofty, File)

Rebel delegates at Yemen peace talks report some progress

By IVANA BZGANOVIC and HAMZA HENDAWI - Associated Press

FILE - In this Wednesday, July 18, 2018 file photo, UNAIDS chief Michel Sidibe attends a press conference, in Paris, France. Independent experts looking into allegations of sexual harassment inside UNAIDS says the U.N agency is plagued by “defective leadership” and should consider whether its top official must go. The group was created this year following allegations of sexual harassment by staffers and calls from critics for executive-director Michel Sidibe to resign. (AP Photo/Thibault Camus, file)

UNAIDS found in ‘crisis’ after sex harassment claims

By JAMEY KEATEN and MARIA CHENG - Associated Press

In this Aug. 9, 2017, file photo, State Department spokeswoman Heather Nauert speaks during a briefing at the State Department in Washington. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon, File)

Heather Nauert: Success stems from America First, bold and brave

By Cheryl K. Chumley - The Washington Times