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FILE - In this Friday, June 9, 2017 file photo, a South Sudanese refugee girl prepares to lick the last of her corn and soya porridge breakfast from her bowl, at the Imvepi reception center, where newly arrived refugees are processed before being allocated plots of land in nearby Bidi Bidi refugee settlement, in northern Uganda. An internal inquiry released in Nov. 2018 says the United Nations refugee agency has misspent millions of dollars on Africa's largest refugee crisis. (AP Photo/Ben Curtis, File)

UN says millions misspent on Africa’s biggest refugee crisis

By RODNEY MUHUMUZA - Associated Press

Outgoing ambassador says she brought ‘Carolina values’ to UN

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UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres is seen on a TV screen while delivering a speech during the United Nations Conference on Afghanistan at the UN Offices in Geneva, Switzerland, Wednesday, Nov. 28, 2018. (Fabrice Coffrini/pool photo via AP)

UN chief: UN close to starting Yemen peace talks in Sweden

By EDITH M. LEDERER - Associated Press

UN releases $9.2 million in emergency funds for Venezuela

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FILE - In this July 2015, file photo, Dr. Chi Ping Patrick Ho, former Hong Kong home secretary, deputy chairman of an non-governmental organization funded by CEFC China Energy poses during an interview in Hong Kong. Jury selection starts Monday, Nov. 26, 2018, in New York for the prominent Hong Kong businessman's bribery trial. Ho was arrested in 2017 on charges he paid bribes so a Chinese energy conglomerate could secure business advantages. (AP Photo/File)

Trial starts for Hong Kong businessman in bribery case

By LARRY NEUMEISTER - Associated Press

Candles burn and female silhouettes are placed during a rally to mark the International Day for the Elimination of Violence Against Women, outside the Parliament in Budapest, Hungary, Sunday, Nov. 25, 2018. (Zoltan Balogh/MTI via AP)

Thousands use UN day to protest violence against women

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FILE - In this Oct. 15, 2018, file photo, South Korean Unification Minister Cho Myoung-gyon, left, shakes hands with his North Korean counterpart Ri Son Gwon after exchanging the joint statement during their meeting at the southern side of Panmunjom in the Demilitarized Zone, South Korea. South Korea says the United Nations Security Council has granted sanctions exemption for surveys on North Korean railroad sections the Koreas want to connect with the South. (Korea Pool/Yonhap via AP, File)

Koreas gain UN sanctions exemption for joint rail survey

By KIM TONG-HYUNG - Associated Press

In this Thursday, Sept. 27, 2018, file photo, a father gives water to his malnourished daughter at a feeding center in a hospital in Hodeida, Yemen. An international aid group says an estimated 85,000 children under age 5 may have died of hunger and disease since the outbreak of Yemen's civil war in 2015. (AP Photo/Hani Mohammed, File)

Aid group: 85,000 children may have died of hunger in Yemen

By Samy Magdy - Associated Press

In this photo taken Saturday, Sept. 22, 2018, Moses Z . Kaine, 21 year old , displays a T-Shirt, his father a West Africa peacekeeper, wore to visit his mother, when she was pregnant with him, at a center set up to register and support children left behind by peacekeepers in Liberia, Monrovia. The only memento Moses Z. Kaine has from his father is the T-shirt, left more than two decades ago when the peacekeeper's tour of duty finished and he returned home to leave his pregnant girlfriend behind. (AP Photo/Jonathan Paye -Layleh)

Peacekeepers left more than 6,000 children in Liberia

By JONATHAN PAYE-LAYLEH and CARLEY PETESCH - Associated Press

UN environment chief under fire for travel expenses resigns

By EDITH M. LEDERER - Associated Press

In this Dec. 4, 2017, file photo, Houthi Shiite fighters guard a street leading to the residence of former Yemeni President Ali Abdullah Saleh, in Sanaa, Yemen. (AP Photo/Hani Mohammed, File)

Despite UN call for Yemen truce, new clashes around key port

By AHMED AL-HAJ and SAMY MAGDY - Associated Press

People carry the coffin of a relative who died in Thursday's suicide attack on a Shiite cultural center in Kabul, Afghanistan, Friday, Dec. 29, 2017. An Islamic State suicide bomber has struck a Shiite cultural center in Kabul, killing dozens of people and underscoring the extremist group's growing reach in Afghanistan even as its self-styled caliphate in Iraq and Syria has been dismantled. (AP Photo/Rahmat Gul)

ISIS horror, mass graves in Syria, Iraq revealed

By Ben Wolfgang - The Washington Times

FILE - In this Dec. 4, 2017, file photo, Houthi Shiite fighters chant slogans as they guard a street leading to the residence of former Yemeni President Ali Abdullah Saleh, in Sanaa, Yemen. A senior leader from Yemen’s Houthi rebels says that for the sake of peace efforts the group will halt rocket fire into Saudi Arabia, its larger northern neighbor who is leading a U.S.-backed Arab coalition to restore Yemen’s internationally recognized government. (AP Photo/Hani Mohammed, File)

The Latest: UN draft resolution urges Yemen peace talks

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A giant postcard of approximately 2500 square meters made of contributions from over 125'000 individual postcards containing messages aiming to fight climate change and global warming, is pictured on the Aletsch glacier near the Jungfraujoch saddle by the Jungfrau peak, in Switzerland, Friday, November 16, 2018. Each individual postcard includes climate change promises and messages from children and youth originating from 35 countries over the world and aims to establish the Guinness world record of the largest composed postcard with the most overall contributors. The 1.5 degrees Celcius written in the center of the postcard refers to a target of limiting global warming to 1.5°C. (Valentin Flauraud/Keystone via AP)

Kids’ postcards blanket Alpine glacier in eco-friendly stunt

By JAMEY KEATEN - Associated Press

UN committee condemns rights violations against Rohingya

By EDITH M. LEDERER - Associated Press

FILE - In this Dec. 6, 2017 file photo, Houthi Shiite rebels inspect the rubble of the Republican Palace that was destroyed by Saudi-led airstrikes, in Sanaa, Yemen. Airstrikes by Saudi Arabia and its allies in Yemen are on a pace to kill more civilians in 2018 than last year despite US claims that the coalition is working to prevent such bloodshed, a database tracking violence shows. The war, nearly four years old, may have killed as many as 80,000 people, according to the figures. (AP Photo/Hani Mohammed, File)

UN envoy: Warring parties in Yemen agree to meet in Sweden

By EDITH M. LEDERER - Associated Press

In this Tuesday, Nov. 13, 2018 photo, Steiff teddy bears are on display during a media preview of the new FAO Schwarz store at Rockefeller Center in New York. Three years after it closed its beloved, fantasy land of a toy store on Fifth Avenue, FAO Schwarz makes its return to New York City. The new version will be smaller, but will have familiar attractions including a musical clock tower and the giant piano keyboard mat on which Tom Hanks danced in the film “Big.” (AP Photo/Mary Altaffer)

Beloved toy store FAO Schwarz makes its comeback

By VERENA DOBNIK - Associated Press

UN says 8 peacekeepers killed in fight against Congo rebels

By EDITH M. LEDERER - Associated Press

Key UN committee condemns North Korea’s rights violations

By EDITH M. LEDERER - Associated Press

Rohingya Muslims use their cellphones as they sit on a hillock overlooking Balukhali refugee camp, in Bangladesh, Wednesday, Nov. 14, 2018. Bangladesh authorities said they are ready to begin repatriating some of the more than 700,000 Rohingya Muslims who have fled from army-led violence in Myanmar since last year, but refugees scheduled to leave said they would refuse to go because of fears for their safety. (AP Photo/Dar Yasin)

Bangladesh scraps Rohingya return, says no one wants to go

By JULHAS ALAM and EMILY SCHMALL - Associated Press