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FILE- In this July 6, 2017 file photo, a man watches TV screens in an electronics shop showing a news program's report on North Korea's missile firing in Seoul, South Korea. North Korea fired a ballistic missile Friday night, July 28, which landed in the ocean off Japan, Japanese officials said. (AP Photo/Ahn Young-joon, File)

North Korea says 2nd ICBM test puts ‘entire’ US in range

By ERIC TALMADGE and MARI YAMAGUCHI - Associated Press

Russia's new ambassador to the United Nations Vassily Alekseevich Nebenzia, right, presents his credentials to U.N. Secretary General Antonio Guterres, at United Nations headquarters, Friday, July 28, 2017. (Eskinder Debebe/United Nations via AP)

Russia’s new UN envoy: World faces ‘unprecedented threats’

By EDITH M. LEDERER - Associated Press

Ng Lap Seng leaves federal court in Manhattan, Thursday, July 27, 2017. Hg, a Chinese billionaire who wanted to build a United Nations center in Macau was convicted Thursday of paying over $1.5 million in bribes to U.N. ambassadors to get it done. (AP Photo/Mary Altaffer)

The Latest: UN looking at next steps after bribery verdict

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Secretary of State Rex Tillerson shakes hand with Qatar's Foreign Minister Sheikh Mohammed bin Abdulrahman Al Thani during a meeting at the State Department in Washington, Wednesday, July 26, 2017. (AP Photo/Manuel Balce Ceneta)

Qatar says UN should play a role in resolving Gulf crisis

By EDITH M. LEDERER - Associated Press

In this Oct. 26, 2015, file photo, Chinese billionaire Ng Lap Seng, left, leaves federal court with his attorney Ben Brafman after he was released on bail in connection with a U.N. bribery scheme in New York. Assistant U.S. Attorney Janis Echenberg told a jury during his trial's closing arguments Tuesday, July 25, 2017, that Ng wanted to build a center in Macau that would rival U.N. headquarters in New York in size. (AP Photo/Kathy Willens, File)

Chinese billionaire convicted in United Nations bribery case

By LARRY NEUMEISTER - Associated Press

Dr. Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, director general, WHO (center), listens to the head doctor of Al-Sabeen Hospital in Sanaa, Yemen. (Courtesy WHO) ** FILE **

U.N. leaders visit Yemen to issue plea for help in humanitarian crisis

By Laura Kelly - The Washington Times

2 Moroccan peacekeepers killed in Central African Republic

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France's President Emmanuel Macron, left, welcomes Libya's Prime Minister Fayez al-Sarraj of the U.N.-backed government at the Chateau of the La Celle-Saint-Cloud, west of Paris, France, Tuesday, July 25, 2017. President Emmanuel Macron is hosting a meeting of the two main rival leaders of chaotic Libya, trying to play peacemaker in a country where the stakes are high for both Europe and Africa. (AP Photo/Michel Euler)

Libyan rivals agree in France to cease-fire, elections

By ELAINE GANLEY and NADINE ACHOUI-LESAGE - Associated Press

French President Emmanuel Macron, right, and new French armed forces chief of staff Francois Lecointre review an honor guard at the air force base in Istres, southern France, Thursday, July 20, 2017. Macron's visit to the Istres air base Thursday comes the day after the head of the French military quit in a dispute with Macron over budget cuts. (Arnold Jerocki, Pool via AP)

France bringing top Libyan rivals together in new initiative

By ELAINE GANLEY - Associated Press

UN, aid group: Cholera in Yemen to worsen in rainy season

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FILE - In this Feb. 3, 2010 file photo, a woman speaks to U.N. peacekeepers during a food distribution at a refugee camp in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, following a powerful earthquake on Jan. 12. Top U.N. official for Haiti, Sandra Honore, said on Thursday, July 20, 2017 peacekeepers have accomplished their mission of stabilizing the Western hemisphere's poorest nation. Honore said Haiti today &quot;is far different&quot; than it was in 2004, when the U.N. deployed peacekeeping troops following a rebellion that left the country on the brink of collapse. (AP Photo/Rodrigo Abd, File)

UN official says Haiti peacekeeping a mission accomplished

By EDITH M. LEDERER - Associated Press

UN ambassador testifies he didn’t know what ‘bribe’ meant

By LARRY NEUMEISTER - Associated Press

In this photo provided by the United Nations, the United Nations Security Council holds a meeting on the situation in the Middle East, Thursday, June 15, 2017 at United Nations Headquarters. (Kim Haughton/The United Nations via AP) ** FILE **

U.N. slaps sanctions on 8 linked to Islamic State and al Qaeda

By Edith M. Lederer - Associated Press

In this photo taken on Tuesday July 18, 2017, U.N. humanitarian chief Stephen O'Brien answers reporters' questions during an organized trip to Bangassou, Central African Republic. O'Brien insisted that the U.N. is there to help, and he warned of the growing violence. More than 300 people have been killed and 150,000 displaced since mid-May as violence that began in 2013 moves into the impoverished country's central and southeastern regions. (AP Photo/Hyppolite Marboua)

Warnings as deadly Central African Republic violence returns

By HIPPOLYTE MARBOUA - Associated Press

The Apollo 11 Contingency Lunar Sample Return Bag used by astronaut Neil Armstrong, to be offered at auction, is displayed at Sotheby's, in New York, Thursday, July 13, 2017. The lunar dust plus some tiny rocks that Armstrong also collected are zipped up in a small bag and are worth an estimated $2 million to $4 million.(AP Photo/Richard Drew)

‘For All Moonkind’ to ask U.N. to protect lunar landing sites, moon-mission artifacts

By Ken Shepherd - The Washington Times

UN panel doesn’t rule out Congo forces in UN experts’ murder

By EDITH M. LEDERER - Associated Press

Arabs urge Qatar to accept 6 principles to combat extremism

By EDITH M. LEDERER - Associated Press