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5 nations appeal for support to fight extremists in Sahel

By EDITH M. LEDERER - Associated Press

The Latest: Gunmen attack UN base in Mali, killing 7 people

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Gunmen attack UN base in Mali, killing 7 and wounding 7

By EDITH M. LEDERER - Associated Press

FILE - In this April 25, 2017, file-pool photo, U.S. special envoy for North Korea policy Joseph Yun speaks in Tokyo. Beyond the bluster, the Trump administration has been quietly engaged in back channel diplomacy with North Korea for several months, addressing Americans imprisoned in the communist country and deteriorating relations between the long-time foes, The Associated Press has learned. (Toru Yamanaka/Pool Photo via AP)

APNewsBreak: Beyond bluster, US, NKorea in regular contact

By MATTHEW PENNINGTON - Associated Press

In this photo taken on Saturday, Jul. 8, 2017, workers fill bottles with water at the mineral water refilling station in Sanaa, Yemen. Yemen’s raging two-year conflict has served as an incubator for lethal cholera. (AP Photo/Hani Mohammed)

Yemen’s civil war turns country into cholera breeding ground

By AHMED AL-HAJ and MAGGIE MICHAEL - Associated Press

A man donates blood in National Blood Transfusion and Research Centre in Sanaa, Yemen, Wednesday, Aug. 9, 2017. The director of Yemen's national blood bank says the facility could shut down within a week after a medical aid charity ended its support. Ayman el-Shihari, the blood bank's general director, said Thursday its closure could lead to a &quot;humanitarian catastrophe.&quot; (AP Photo/Hani Mohammed)

Yemen national blood bank faces threat of closure

By MENNA ZAKI - Associated Press

A copy of the local newspaper is for sale in Hagatna, Guam on Thursday, Aug. 10, 2017. The small U.S. territory of Guam has become a focal point after North Korea's army threatened to use ballistic missiles to create an &quot;enveloping fire&quot; around the island. The exclamation came after President Donald Trump warned Pyongyang of &quot;fire and fury like the world has never seen.&quot; (AP Photo/Tassanee Vejpongsa)

Analysis: Trump throws his own North Korea strategy a curve

By JOSH LEDERMAN - Associated Press

Illustration on U.N. Ambassador Nikki Haley and the North Korean situation by Alexander Hunter/The Washington Times

Nikki Haley does well on North Korea

By Suzanne Fields

FILE - This file photo distributed by the North Korean government shows what was said to be the launch of a Hwasong-14 intercontinental ballistic missile, ICBM, in North Korea's northwest, Tuesday, July 4, 2017. Independent journalists were not given access to cover the event depicted in this photo. The strongest U.N. sanctions in a generation may still prove no match for North Korea’s relentless nuclear weapons ambitions. Even in diplomatic triumph, the Trump administration is gambling that it has enough time to test if economic pressure can get Kim Jong Un’s totalitarian government to end its missile advances and atomic weapons tests (Korean Central News Agency/Korea News Service via AP, File)

Analysis: Even new UN sanctions might not budge North Korea

By MATTHEW PENNINGTON - Associated Press

US urges UN force in Lebanon to prevent Hezbollah weapons

By EDITH M. LEDERER - Associated Press

In this July 28, 2017, file photo distributed by the North Korean government on Saturday, July 29, 2017, shows what was said to be the launch of a Hwasong-14 intercontinental ballistic missile at an undisclosed location in North Korea. North Korea said Monday, Aug. 7, it will launch &quot;thousands-fold&quot; revenge against the United States over the adoption of tough U.N. sanctions imposed after its intercontinental ballistic launches. Independent journalists were not given access to cover the event depicted in this image distributed by the Korean Central News Agency via Korea News Service. (Korean Central News Agency/Korea News Service via AP, File)

North Korea vows harsh retaliation against new U.N. sanctions

By Hyung-jin Kim - Associated Press

North Korean Foreign Minister Ri Yong Ho, center, bids farewell to his Chinese counterpart Wang Yi, right, following their bilateral meeting in the sidelines of the 50th ASEAN Foreign Ministers' Meeting and its Dialogue Partners Sunday, Aug. 6, 2017 in suburban Pasay city, south Manila, Philippines. Bolstered by new U.N. sanctions, the United States and North Korea's neighbors are joining in a fresh attempt to isolate Pyongyang over its nuclear and missile programs, in a global campaign cheered on by U.S. President Donald Trump. (AP Photo/Bullit Marquez)

Welcome boost from China to global pressure on North Korea

By JOSH LEDERMAN - Associated Press

In this Saturday, Aug. 5, 2017, photo, Kim Ji Nho, a pro-Pyongyang ethnic Korean who was born in Hiroshima, shows his only family photo taken in 1963 with him, third from right in the back, and his mother, top left, during an interview with The Associated Press in Hiroshima, western Japan. Kim, 71, is a &quot;hibakusha,&quot; or atomic-bomb survivor, who was exposed to radiation when his mother, pregnant with him, went to the ruins of the city to search for a daughter who went missing in the blast. &quot;We 'hibakusha' and our groups share a clear goal, which is to abolish nuclear weapons from the world,&quot; Kim said. &quot;Nuclear weapons should never be used.&quot; (AP Photo/Mari Yamaguchi)

N. Korean missiles add urgency to Hiroshima A-bomb appeals

By MARI YAMAGUCHI - Associated Press

US and allies call Iran’s recent rocket launch ‘threatening’

By EDITH M. LEDERER - Associated Press

In this May 23, 2005, file photo, a North Korea cargo ship Paik Du San cast anchor as the bags of fertilizer are loading its at Ulsan port in Ulsan, South Korea. North Korea has been condemned and sanctioned for its nuclear ambitions, yet has still received food, fuel and other aid from its neighbors and adversaries for decades. How does the small, isolated country keep getting what it wants and needs to prevent its collapse? (AP Photo/ Lee Jin-man, File)

North Korea’s evolving ways to get what it wants and needs

By Hyung-jin Kim - Associated Press

American Ambassador to the United Nations Nikki Haley, center, leaves after attending a Security Council meeting on the situation in the Middle East, including the Palestinian question, Tuesday, July 25, 2017 at United Nations headquarters. (AP Photo/Mary Altaffer)

Nikki Haley: ‘Done talking’ about North Korea

By Cheryl K. Chumley - The Washington Times

In this Tuesday, July 25, 2017 photo, a waitress sings at the Pyongyang Okryu-Gwan North Korean Restaurant in Dubai, United Arab Emirates. From state-run restaurants to construction sites, North Korean workers in Kuwait, Oman, Qatar and the United Arab Emirates face conditions akin to forced labor while being spied on by planted intelligence officers, eating little food and suffering physical abuse, authorities say. (AP Photo/Kamran Jebreili)

Thousands of North Korean laborers in US-allied Gulf nations

By JON GAMBRELL - Associated Press

Western nations decry Iran space launch; US levies sanctions

By JOSH LEDERMAN - Associated Press