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US fails to weaken UN references to sexual health

By EDITH M. LEDERER - Associated Press

UN lifts sanctions on Eritrea, keeps arms embargo on Somalia

By EDITH M. LEDERER - Associated Press

Rohingya Muslims Nurul Amin, 35, left, and Mohammed Selim, 23, whose names are on the first list to be repatriated back to Myanmar, talk to the Associated Press outside Jamtoli 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. &quot;I will not go. My wife and other family members have gone elsewhere, they do not want to go,&quot; Amin told The Associated Press. Selim said his wife and seven other family members went into hiding after finding out that they would be sent back Thursday. (AP Photo/Dar Yasin)

Bangladesh ready to return Rohingya, who say they’ll refuse

By JULHAS ALAM - Associated Press

Austrian army soldiers practice the protection of the EU external border during a joint military exercise with Czech and Hungarian soldiers of the Central European Defense Cooperation, CEDC, in Allensteig, Austria, Friday, Sept. 15, 2017. (AP Photo/Ronald Zak)

U.S. fight against U.N. migration pact finds allies

By Dan Boylan - The Washington Times

U.S. Vice President Mike Pence, right, meets Myanmar leader Aung San Suu Kyi in Singapore, Wednesday, Nov. 14, 2018. Pence is Singapore to attend the 33rd ASEAN summit. (AP Photo/Bernat Armangue, Pool)

Mike Pence says Myanmar’s handling of Rohingya ‘without excuse’

By Bernat Armangue - Associated Press

UN heartened by Libya commitments ahead of 2019 conference

By PAOLO SANTALUCIA - Associated Press

UN envoy: New Iraq government plans to uproot IS extremists

By EDITH M. LEDERER - Associated Press

FILE - In this Sept. 29, 2018 file photo, a cargo ship is docked at the Red Sea port city, of Hodeida, Yemen. Yemeni officials said Tuesday, Nov. 13, 2018, that an informal agreement to reduce hostilities between Saudi-led coalition forces and rebels in and around Hodeida has taken hold. They said that hostilities have ceased for the past 24 hours, with both sides respecting the truce. The truce followed advances by the coalition in their latest attempt to retake the city from the Shiite rebels, known as Houthis. (AP Photo/Hani Mohammed, File)

Coalition, Yemen rebels agree on informal truce

By AHMED AL-HAJ - Associated Press

Myanmar's leader Aung San Suu Kyi delivers the keynote speech at the ASEAN Business and Investment Summit 2018, a parallel summit in the ongoing ASEAN Summit 2018 in Singapore, Monday, Nov. 12, 2018. Twenty heads of states are gathering in Singapore for the Summit. (AP Photo/Bullit Marquez)

UN refugee agency warns against returning Rohingya refugees

By ELAINE KURTENBACH - Associated Press

FILE - In this Thursday, Sept. 20, 2018 file photo, Italian Prime Minister Giuseppe Conte arrives at the informal EU summit in Salzburg, Austria. A gathering of leaders of Libya’s quarrelling factions and of countries keen on stabilizing the North African nation opens in Monday Nov. 12, 2018, where Italian Premier Giuseppe Conte will be greeting arrivals Monday evening in Sicily, aimed at finding a political settlement that would bolster the fight against Islamic militants and stop illegal migrants crossing the Mediterranean to Europe’s southern shores. (AP Photo/Kerstin Joensson, File)

Leaders meet in Italy to find settlement in Libya

By PAOLO SANTALUCIA - Associated Press

In this Sunday, Oct. 21, 2018 photo, smokes billows from the chimneys of Pyongyang Power Plant in Pyongyang, North Korea. Twenty years after his father almost bargained them away for a pair of nuclear reactors, North Korean leader Kim Jong Un has his nuclear weapons - and a nation still plagued by chronic blackouts. But years of sanctions have spurred the North to cobble together a creative smorgasbord of alternative resources, some off the official grid and some flat-out illegal. (AP Photo/Dita Alangkara)

Options limited, North Korea lit by flashlights, creaky grid

By ERIC TALMADGE - Associated Press

French president Emmanuel Macron and his wife Brigitte Macron arrive at the official dinner on the eve of the international ceremony for the Centenary of the WWI Armistice of 11 November 1918 at the Orsay Museum, in Paris, France, Saturday, Nov. 10, 2018. (Ian Langsdon/Pool Photo via AP)

The Latest: Leaders discuss Ukraine elections at Paris meet

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FILE - In this Friday Sept. 28, 2018 file photo, a fisherman paddles his boat past destroyed buildings on the coast of the port city of Hodeida, Yemen. Amnesty International said warned late Wednesday. Nov. 7, 2018 that Yemen's rebels have taken up positions on a hospital rooftop in the contested Red Sea city of Hodeida that a Saudi-led coalition is trying to capture. This raises concerns the Shiite rebels, known as Houthis, plan to use the patients at the Hodeida hospital as human shields to ward off airstrikes from the coalition. Amnesty is urging the warring sides to protect civilians. (AP Photo/Hani Mohammed, File)

UN: 445,000 Yemenis have fled Hodeida area

By MENNA ZAKI - Associated Press

UN says way forward in volatile Libya is National Conference

By EDITH M. LEDERER - Associated Press

UN chief urges speedy release of kidnapped Cameroon pupils

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FILE - This image May, 2015, file, photo released by the the Mass Graves Directorate of the Kurdish Regional Government shows a human skull in a mass grave containing Yazidis killed by Islamic State militants in the Sinjar region of northern Iraq. U.N. investigators said Tuesday, Nov. 6, 2018 that they have verified the location of more than 200 mass grave sites from the time of the Islamic State group’s reign in northern Iraq, containing the bodies of between 6,000 and 12,000 victims. (Kurdish Mass Graves Directorate via AP, File)

UN verifies 200 mass graves left by Islamic State in Iraq

Associated Press

In this combination image made from two photos, Reuters journalists Kyaw Soe Oo, left, and Wa Lone, are handcuffed as they are escorted by police out of the court Monday, Sept. 3, 2018, in Yangon, Myanmar. Lawyers for the two Reuters journalists imprisoned in Myanmar have appealed the verdict that sent them to prison for seven years for illegal possession of official documents. (AP Photo/Thein Zaw)

Appeals filed for 2 Myanmar journalists in secrets case

Associated Press

UN adds sexual violence as reason for sanctions in Libya

By EDITH M. LEDERER - Associated Press

FILE - In this Jan. 22, 2015 file photo, the then Norwegian Ambassador to the U.N. Geir O. Pederson addresses the United Nations General Assembly. Deputy Syrian Foreign Minister Faisal Mekdad was quoted in the pro-government daily Al-Watan on Sunday, Nov. 4, 2018, saying it will cooperate with new U.N. envoy Geir Pederson if he avoids the &quot;methods&quot; of his predecessor. Pedersen succeeds Staffan de Misutra, who stepped down after four years of peace efforts that led nowhere. (AP Photo/Richard Drew, File)

Aid workers reach remote Syrian camp for 1st time

By ALBERT AJI and SARAH EL DEEB - Associated Press

FILE - In this ICTY file photo dated Wednesday, Nov. 29, 2017, Slobodan Praljak drinks from a bottle after proclaiming his innocence shortly after hearing an appeals judge confirmed his 20-year sentence for crimes during the 1992-95 Bosnian war. The Hague Public Prosecution Service says in a written statement issued Friday Nov. 2, 2018, they have failed to unravel the mystery of how Croatian ex-general Praljak managed to smuggle a bottle of poison into a United Nations courtroom to take his own life. (The International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY) via AP)

Probe fails to unravel mystery of Croat’s courtroom suicide

By MIKE CORDER - Associated Press