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The chairman of the Norwegian Nobel Peace Prize Committee, Berit Reiss-Andersen, left, and the committee secretary Olav Njolstad, announce the 2018 Nobel Peace Prize in the Nobel Institute in Oslo, Friday, OCt. 5, 2018. The Nobel Peace Prize committee awarded The 2018 Nobel Peace Prize to Denis Mukwege and Nadia Murad. (Terje Pedersen/NTB Scanpix via AP)

The Latest: Lawyer Clooney says client’s Nobel sends message

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FILE - In this Sunday, May 21, 2017 file photo, David Beasley, the new executive director of the World Food Programme, speaks to The Associated Press, in Amman, Jordan. The data technology that underpins virtual currencies like bitcoin is now also used to deliver aid more efficiently by dramatically lowering the risk of bribes and fraud by local officials _ a huge, longstanding problem in the industry. The so-called blockchain keeps a record of all transactions and buyers, making sure recipients get their goods without the added costs of graft or bank transfer fees. The UN’s World Food Programme has been testing the use of blockchain technology since 2017 to manage aid for over 100,000 refugees in camps in Jordan, which hosts over 740,000 people from neighboring countries like war-torn Syria. (AP Photo/Omar Akour, file)

Aid groups now using the same data technology as bitcoin

By ROBERT STEVENS - Associated Press

As Syria urges refugees’ return, UN takes more cautious tone

By JENNIFER PELTZ - Associated Press

Jerusalem to remove UN agency for Palestinians from city

By TIA GOLDENBERG - Associated Press

In this Saturday, Sept. 29, 2018 photo, a cargo ship is docked at the port, in Hodeida, Yemen. With US backing, the United Arab Emirates and its Yemeni allies have restarted their all-out assault on Yemen’s port city of Hodeida, aiming to wrest it from rebel hands. Victory here could be a turning point in the 3-year-old civil war, but it could also push the country into outright famine. Already, the fighting has been a catastrophe for civilians on the Red Sea coast. (AP Photo/Hani Mohammed)

Key battle in Yemen’s war risks tipping country into famine

By AHMED AL-HAJ and MAGGIE MICHAEL - Associated Press

In this Tuesday, Oct. 2, 2018, photo, Chinese visitors arrive to the opening of the Syria rebuilding exhibition at the fair grounds in Damascus, Syria. With back-to-back trade fairs held in Damascus this month, Syria hopes to jumpstart reconstruction of its devastated cities by inviting international investors to take part in lucrative opportunities. (AP Photo/Hassan Ammar)

Syria hopes to jumpstart rebuilding despite massive hurdles

By Zeina Karam - Associated Press

Yemeni officials: Rebels release slain ex-president’s sons

By AHMED AL-HAJ - Associated Press

President Donald Trump speaks during a news conference at the Lotte New York Palace hotel during the United Nations General Assembly, Wednesday, Sept. 26, 2018, in New York. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)

Trump dominated UN, but US nationalism at odds with world

By EDITH M. LEDERER - Associated Press

Secretary of State Mike Pompeo meets Pakistani Foreign Minister Makhdoom Shah Mahmood Qureshi at the State Department in Washington, Tuesday, Oct. 2, 2018. Pompeo is heading back to North Korea for another round of talks aimed at getting Kim Jong Un to give up nuclear weapons. (AP Photo/Cliff Owen)

Mike Pompeo to meet Kim Jong-un in North Korea

By Guy Taylor - The Washington Times

President Donald Trump speaks during a news conference at the Lotte New York Palace hotel during the United Nations General Assembly, Wednesday, Sept. 26, 2018, in New York. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)

Trump dominated UN, but US nationalism at odds with world

By EDITH M. LEDERER - Associated Press

This photo combo shows, from top left, New Zealand's Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern, Lithuania's President Dalia Grybauskaite, and Serbia's Prime Minister Ana Brnabic. Middle row, from left, Nobel Peace Prize winner Leymah Gbowee, from Liberia, U.N. General Assembly President María Fernanda Espinosa Garces, and Costa Rican Vice President Epsy Campbell Barr. Bottom row, from left, Croatia's President Kolinda Grabar-Kitarovic, Liechtenstein's Foreign Minister Aurelia Frick, and British Prime Minister Theresa May. At the U.N. General Assembly, the first since #metoo took root, some of the most powerful words came from the mouths of female leaders, a group whose numbers, influence and ambitions for the planet are on the rise. (AP Photo/File)

We too: At gathering of nations, women’s voices ring loud

By ANGELA CHARLTON - Associated Press

UN refugee chief: Med rescues ‘taken hostage’ by politics

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CORRECTS NAME TO WALID AL-MOALLEM - Syrian Deputy Prime Minister Walid al-Moallem addresses the 73rd session of the United Nations General Assembly,Saturday, Sept. 29, 2018 at U.N. headquarters. (AP Photo/Mary Altaffer)

NKorea: US needs to build our trust, and sanctions lower it

By JENNIFER PELTZ and FOSTER KLUG - Associated Press

In this photo provided by the United Nations, Ri Yong Ho, left, Minister for Foreign Affairs, Democratic People's Republic of Korea, is greeted by United Nations Secretary General Antonio Guterres during the United Nations General Assembly, Friday, Sept. 28, 2018 at U.N. Headquarters. (Kim Haughton/The United Nations via AP )

The Latest: Multilateralism main theme at General Assembly

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People walk towards the U.N. headquarters on Friday, Sept. 28, 2018, in New York. At the U.N. General Assembly this year, leader after leader mused about the challenges of an increasingly fragmented planet and how the friction of modern life can mesh with old suspicions that can now be amplified in an instant. In short: Most of us humans are led by people struggling to figure out the same dizzying world that vexes the rest of us. (AP Photo/Andres Kudacki)

‘United’ or ‘Nations’? Balance is UN’s existential question

By TED ANTHONY - Associated Press

North Korean Foreign Minister Ri Yong Ho addresses the 73rd session of the United Nations General Assembly,Saturday, Sept. 29, 2018 at U.N. headquarters. (AP Photo/Mary Altaffer)

N. Korea FM: Peace possible, but only if US ends hostility

By FOSTER KLUG - Associated Press

This photo combo shows, from top left, New Zealand's Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern, Lithuania's President Dalia Grybauskaite, and Serbia's Prime Minister Ana Brnabic. Middle row, from left, Nobel Peace Prize winner Leymah Gbowee, from Liberia, U.N. General Assembly President María Fernanda Espinosa Garces, and Costa Rican Vice President Epsy Campbell Barr. Bottom row, from left, Croatia's President Kolinda Grabar-Kitarovic, Liechtenstein's Foreign Minister Aurelia Frick, and British Prime Minister Theresa May. At the U.N. General Assembly, the first since #metoo took root, some of the most powerful words came from the mouths of female leaders, a group whose numbers, influence and ambitions for the planet are on the rise. (AP Photo/File)

We too: At gathering of nations, women’s voices ring loud

By ANGELA CHARLTON - Associated Press

International human rights lawyer Amal Clooney answers a question during a conference called &quot;Press Behind Bars: Undermining Justice and Democracy,&quot; at the 73rd session of the United Nations General Assembly, at U.N. headquarters, Friday, Sept. 28, 2018. Left is Joel Simon, Executive Director of the Committee to Protect Journalists, and right center is Steven J. Adler, President and Editor-in-Chief of Reuters. (AP Photo/Craig Ruttle)

Amal Clooney: Pardon Reuters reporters jailed in Myanmar

By FOSTER KLUG - Associated Press

UN rights body renews experts’ probe of Yemen crimes

By JAMEY KEATEN - Associated Press

South Sudan's First Vice President Taban Deng Gai addresses the 73rd session of the United Nations General Assembly, at U.N. headquarters, Friday, Sept. 28, 2018. (AP Photo/Richard Drew)

The Latest: Myanmar defends itself against UN report

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