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Myanmar leader Aung San Suu Kyi addresses participants during the opening session of the World Economic Forum on ASEAN Wednesday, Sept. 12, 2018 in Hanoi, Vietnam. The World Economic Forum has attracted hundreds of participants for the three-day forum with the theme: ASEAN 4.0: Entrepreneurship and the Fourth Industrial Revolution. (AP Photo/Bullit Marquez)

Myanmar’s Suu Kyi to skip UN General Assembly session

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This photo released on Monday, Sept. 10, 2018 by the Syrian Civil Defense group known as the White Helmets, shows smoke rising from a Syrian government airstrike, in Hobeit village, near Idlib, Syria. High-level diplomats from Iran, Russia and Turkey were meeting Tuesday with the U.N. envoy for Syria about creating a committee to revise the war-battered country's constitution. Tuesday's talks in Geneva under U.N. envoy Staffan de Mistura come amid concerns he and other U.N. officials have expressed about a looming battle for Idlib. (Syrian Civil Defense White Helmets via AP)

The Latest: UN chief: A ‘bloodbath’ must be averted in Idlib

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The Latest: UN office defends visits to check on migrants

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White House press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders speaks during the daily press briefing at the White House, Monday, Sept. 10, 2018, in Washington. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)

White House says it’s working to plan 2nd Trump-Kim meeting

By DARLENE SUPERVILLE - Associated Press

Ghanaian soldiers carry the coffin of former U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan, wrapped in the flag of Ghana, to a hearse upon arrival at the Kotoka International Airport in Accra, Ghana Monday, Sept 10, 2018. The body of Annan, who died in August in Switzerland at age 80, received a hero's welcome upon landing at the airport ahead of Thursday's state funeral. (AP Photo/Sunday Alamba)

Kofi Annan’s body returns home to Ghana before funeral

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U.N. High Commissioner for Human Rights Chilean Michelle Bachelet addresses her statement during the opening of 39th session of the Human Rights Council, at the European headquarters of the United Nations in Geneva, Switzerland, Monday, Sept. 10, 2018. (Salvatore Di Nolfi/Keystone via AP)

UN teams to assess migrant treatment in Austria, Italy

By GEIR MOULSON and JAMEY KEATEN - Associated Press

FILE - In this June 7, 2018 file photo, the World Trade Center site is seen from an upper floor of 3 World Trade Center in New York. The annual 9/11 commemorations are by now familiar rituals, centered on reading the names of the dead. But each year at ground zero, victims' relatives infuse the ceremony with personal messages of remembrance, concern and inspiration. And there building continues. A subway station destroyed on 9/11 finally reopened, as did the doors at the 80-story 3 World Trade Center, one of several rebuilt office towers that have been constructed or planned at the site. (AP Photo/Mark Lennihan, FIle)

US marks 9/11 with somber tributes; Trump speaks at PA site

By JENNIFER PELTZ and KAREN MATTHEWS - Associated Press

Martin Griffiths, UN Special Envoy for Yemen, gestures as he speaks to the media about Geneva Consultations on Yemen during a news conference, at the European headquarters of the United Nations in Geneva, Switzerland, Saturday, September 8, 2018. (Salvatore Di Nolfi/Keystone via AP)

UN envoy to Yemen seeks to downplay non-start of talks

By AHMED AL-HAJ - Associated Press

UN enlists ‘Thomas & Friends’ to teach kids about UN goals

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Yemen peace talks uncertain as rebels fail to attend

By AHMED AL-HAJ - Associated Press

In this Wednesday, Sept 5, 2018 photo, Syrian students play in the courtyard of a school in the town of Douma, in the eastern Ghouta region, near the Syrian capital Damascus, Syria. Millions of Syrian children return to school as the country's conflict simmers down. The Syrian government is keen to project a sense of normalcy, opening hundreds of newly renovated schools and calling on students to wear uniforms, which were shed in years of chaos. But humanitarians say the war is far from over, particularly its scars on children. (AP Photo)

Back to school, but not for all of Syria’s children

By ALBERT AJI and ALICE SU - Associated Press

Guatemala's President Jimmy Morales reads a statement at the National Palace of Culture in Guatemala City, Thursday, Sept. 6, 2018. Morales said on Thursday that the end of the mandate of the International Commission Against Impunity in Guatemala will not jeopardize investigations into corruption in the country. (AP Photo/Arnulfo Franco)

Guatemala Morales defends ending UN anti-graft commission

By SONIA PEREZ D. - Associated Press

The building of the high national election commission in Tripoli, Libya after a suicide bomb, May 2, 2018.(AP Photo/Mohamed Ben Khalifa)

Ain Zara prison break pushes Libya to failed-state status

By Reha Fhelboom and Jacob Wirtschafter — Special to The Washington Times

Saudi Arabia: Yemeni rebel missile shot down, 26 wounded

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South Korean National Security Advisor Chung Eui-yong, center left, National Intelligence Service Director Suh Hoon, center right, and other delegates return from North Korea at Seoul Airport in Seongnam, South Korea, Wednesday, Sept. 5, 2018. A South Korean delegation met with North Korean leader Kim Jong Un on Wednesday during a visit to arrange an inter-Korean summit planned for this month and help rescue faltering nuclear diplomacy between Washington and Pyongyang.(Yun Dong-jin/Yonhap via AP)

North Korea’s Kim has faith in Trump, frustrated at skeptics

By HYUNG-JIN KIM and KIM TONG-HYUNG and FOSTER KLUG - Associated Press

In this photo provided by the United Nations, Nicaragua's Foreign Minister Denis Moncada Colindres, addresses the United Nations Security Council, Wednesday, Sept. 5, 2018 at U.N. headquarters. (Loey Felipe/The United Nations via AP)

US warns Nicaragua is following path of Syria and Venezuela

By EDITH M. LEDERER - Associated Press

Martin Griffiths, UN Special Envoy for Yemen, addresses the media during a press conference at the European headquarters of the United Nations in Geneva, Switzerland, Wednesday, Sept. 5, 2018 one day before starting the Geneva Consultations on Yemen. (Salvatore Di Nolfi/Keystone via AP)

UN seeks ‘hope’ for war-torn Yemenis as peace talks resume

By JAMEY KEATEN - Associated Press

Venezuelan Omar Mujica, a car mechanic, walks to Lima, along the shoulder of the Pan-American Highway, as other Venezuelan migrants follow, after crossing the border from Ecuador into Peru, near Tumbes, Peru, Sunday, Aug. 26, 2018. Mujica, from Barquisimeto, said his car broke down before he started his trip, two weeks ago, and left it behind, unable to sell it. The U.N. estimates 2.3 million Venezuelans have fled since 2014 as the country with the world's largest proven oil reserves plummets into an economic crisis worse than the Great Depression. (AP Photo/Martin Mejia)

AP Explains: Venezuela’s migrant crisis

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Libya says death toll from Tripoli clashes climbs to 61

By RAMI MUSA and SAMY MAGDY - Associated Press

US envoy: Trump to chair UN Security Council meeting on Iran

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