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FILE - In this July 20, 2017, file photo, Chile's then President Michelle Bachelet looks on during a visit to Memory Park which honors the victims of the country's dictatorship, in Buenos Aires, Argentina. Bachelet was 23 years old when she was tortured and fled her country's dictatorship into exile. Now in 2018, more than four decades later, she will have to face her painful past as the new U.N. human rights chief fighting such abuses worldwide. (AP Photo/Natacha Pisarenko, File)

New UN human rights chief has survived torture herself

By EVA VERGARA - Associated Press

Libyan police say 400 prisoners escape amid Tripoli clashes

By RAMI MUSA - Associated Press

Reuters journalist Wa Lone, center, is escorted by polices upon arrival at the court Monday, Sept. 3, 2018, in Yangon, Myanmar. A Myanmar court sentenced two Reuters journalists, Wa Lone and Kyaw Soe Oo, to seven years in prison Monday for illegal possession of official documents, a ruling that comes as international criticism mounts over the military's alleged human rights abuses against Rohingya Muslims. (AP Photo/Thein Zaw)

The Latest: US ambassador condemns reporter convictions

Associated Press

FILE - In this file photo taken between May 7 and 8, 2018, released by China's Xinhua News Agency, Chinese President Xi Jinping, right, speaks to North Korean leader Kim Jong Un in Dalian in northeastern China's Liaoning Province. As North Korea celebrates the 70th anniversary of its founding on Sunday, Sept. 9, 2018, the presence - or absence - of Xi could highlight just how much vitality has been restored to ties between Pyongyang and its most powerful backer after a prolonged chill. (Ju Peng/Xinhua via AP, File)

China’s leader Xi looms large over North Korean anniversary

By CHRISTOPHER BODEEN - Associated Press

Firecrackers go off as a supporter in favor of a decision by Guatemala's President Jimmy Morales to shut down a U.N.-sponsored anti-graft commission led by Ivan Velasquez, protests outside the United Nations International Commission Against Impunity, CICIG, headquarters in Guatemala City, Friday, Aug. 31, 2018. Last week the Supreme Court allowed a request brought by the CICIG and Guatemalan prosecutors to strip Morales' immunity from prosecution to go to Congress for consideration. (AP Photo/Moises Castillo)

The Latest: Guatemalans to protest end of anti-graft body

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File - In this Wednesday, Aug. 29, 2018 file photo, girls sit inside a classroom at an UNRWA school during the first day of a new school year in Gaza City. A spokesman for the Palestinian president says the American decision to cut funding for the U.N. agency aiding Palestinian refugees is &quot;an attack on the rights of the Palestinian people.&quot; The U.S. supplies nearly 30 percent of the total budget of the U.N. Relief and Works Agency, or UNRWA, and had been demanding it carry out significant reforms. The decision cuts nearly $300 million of planned support. (AP Photo/Felipe Dana, File)

Palestinians condemn US ending funding for UN refugee agency

By JOSEF FEDERMAN - Associated Press

Nicaragua’s President Daniel Ortega speaks to supporters in Managua, Nicaragua, Wednesday, Aug. 29, 2018. A United Nations report released Wednesday calls on Ortega's government to immediately halt the persecution of protesters and disarm the masked civilians who have been responsible for much of the killings and arbitrary detentions. Ortega's government dismissed the report as baseless. It denied accusations of excessive use of force against protesters. (AP Photo/Alfredo Zuniga)

Nicaragua to expel UN team after critical report

By LUIS MANUEL GALEANO - Associated Press

FILE - In this file photo released by the Syrian official news agency SANA on Sept. 26, 2016, anti-Syrian government fighters, left, some of them carrying their weapons, head to a bus as they leave the last besieged rebel-held neighborhood of Al-Waer in Homs province, Syria. In the northern Idlib province, a corner of nearly 3 million people, the government and its opponents are preparing for a final, bloody showdown. In the last year alone, the government has forced its opponents out of Damascus, Homs, Daraa, and Quneitra, four provinces and cities that were longtime opposition strongholds. (SANA via AP, File)

AP Explains: The looming, final battle for Syria’s rebels

By PHILIP ISSA - Associated Press

The Latest: Guatemala military surrounds HQ of UN commission

Associated Press

An armed army vehicle patrols in front of the United Nations International Commission Against Impunity, CICIG, headquarters in Guatemala City, Friday, Aug. 31, 2018. Guatemala president Jimmy Morales says he is not renewing mandate of U.N.-sponsored commission investigating corruption in the country. (AP Photo)

Guatemala president nixes renewal for UN anti-graft body

By SONIA PEREZ D. and SONNY FIGUEROA - Associated Press

Protesters run to cover from teargas fired by Israeli troops, while others burn tires near fence of the Gaza Strip border with Israel, during a protest east of Gaza City, Friday, Aug. 31, 2018. Gaza's Health Ministry says Israeli gunfire wounded about 80 Palestinians at a weekly protest along the border with Israel. (AP Photo/Adel Hana)

US ends funding of UN agency for Palestinian refugees

By SUSANNAH GEORGE - Associated Press

Russia holds up release of report on North Korea sanctions

By EDITH M. LEDERER - Associated Press

FILE - In this Sunday, Oct. 8, 2017 file photo provided by the Syrian Civil Defense White Helmets, which has been authenticated based on its contents and other AP reporting, Civil Defense workers and Syrian citizens gather after an airstrike hit a market in Maaret al-Numan in southern Idlib, Syria. The campaign for Idlib, the opposition’s only remaining stronghold in the country and now a refuge for over one million displaced Syrians, is likely to be the last major theater of battle after seven years of brutal civil war. (Syrian Civil Defense White Helmets via AP, File)

AP Explains: The looming, final battle for Syria’s rebels

By PHILIP ISSA - Associated Press

UN says 120,000 suspected cases of cholera in Yemen

Associated Press

UN chief urges conflict prevention and ‘diplomacy for peace’

By EDITH M. LEDERER - Associated Press

Ban of killer robots, drones fought by U.S., Russia

The Washington Times

In this May 28, 2018, file photo, police in riot gear riding on the back of pick-up trucks fire their shotguns toward university students protesting Nicaragua's President Daniel Ortega in Managua, Nicaragua. More than 300 people have been killed in violence since mid-April. (AP Photo/Esteban Felix, File)

U.N.: Daniel Ortega’s Nicaraguan gov’t behind widespread repression

By Christopher Sherman - Associated Press

Jordan's Zeid Ra'ad al Hussein, UN High Commissioner for Human Rights speaks at ACANU at the European headquarters of the United Nations in Geneva, Switzerland, Wednesday, Aug. 29, 2018. (AP Photo/Jamey Keaten)

UN rights chief: Vowed US cuts wouldn’t be ‘fatal’ to office

By JAMEY KEATEN - Associated Press

US calls Middle Eastern nations to step up Palestinian aid

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UN: China’s African swine fever outbreak could cross borders

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