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FILE - In this Feb. 14, 2016 file photo, a girl uses binoculars to watch the North side at the Imjingak Pavilion near the border village of Panmunjom, which has separated the two Koreas since the Korean War, in Paju, South Korea. A South Korean civic group said Monday, June 5, 2017, that North Korea has rejected its offer to provide anti-malaria supplies to protest Seoul's support of fresh U.N. sanctions on the country. (AP Photo/Lee Jin-man. File)

N. Korea rejects S. Korean group’s offer of malaria help

By HYUNG-JIN KIM - Associated Press

Former NYC mayor pledges $15M to climate change battle

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The South African Minister of Health Dr Riek Gai Kok speaks during a press conference in Juba, South Sudan Friday, June 2, 2017. South Sudan's government says 15 young children have died in a botched measles vaccination campaign that saw people as young as 12 years old administering the vaccines. (AP Photo/ Samir Bol)

South Sudan: 15 children die in botched vaccine campaign

By JUSTIN LYNCH and SAM MEDNICK - Associated Press

Ambassadors to the United Nations raise hands in a U.N. Security Council resolution vote to sanction North Korea, Friday, June 2, 2017, at U.N. headquarters. (AP Photo/Bebeto Matthews)

UN votes to add 15 North Koreans, 4 entities to UN blacklist

By EDITH M. LEDERER - Associated Press

France says several soldiers injured by attack in Mali

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FILE - In this April 15, 2017, file photo, a submarine-launched &quot;Pukguksong&quot; missile are displayed in Kim Il Sung Square in Pyongyang, North Korea. The message of the parade is clear: North Korea is, or is near to being, able to launch a pre-emptive strike against a regional target. It is preparing to withstand a retaliatory follow-up attack if it does, and it is building the arsenal it needs to then launch a second wave of strikes, this time at the U.S. mainland. (AP Photo/Wong Maye-E, File)

Draft UN resolution would add 15 North Koreans to blacklist

By EDITH M. LEDERER - Associated Press

FILE - In this May 21, 2017, file photo, U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations Nikki Haley speaks to journalist during a visit to the Zaatari Refugee Camp, Jordan. Haley is presenting another side of President Donald Trump's “America First” doctrine, one that focuses on human rights and humanitarian assistance. (AP Photo/Raad Adayleh, Pool)

US envoy: US believes China is trying to stop NKorea tests

By EDITH M. LEDERER - Associated Press

The judges sit in the courtroom during the trial of South Sudanese soldiers accused of an attack during the country's civil war, in the capital Juba, South Sudan Tuesday May 30, 2017. South Sudanese soldiers accused of a horrific attack on foreign aid workers during the country's civil war are facing trial almost a year later. Twelve of the 20 soldiers accused of rape, torture, killing and looting during the attack on the Terrain hotel compound were in court Tuesday. The trial is a test of South Sudan's ability to hold its soldiers accountable. (AP Photo/Bullen Chol).

South Sudan soldiers face trial for deadly hotel rampage

By SAM MEDNICK - Associated Press

FILE - In this May 24, 2017, file photo, U.S. Ambassador to the U.N. Nikki Haley holds a food parcel provided by the World Food Programme, part of the humanitarian aid shipments into Syria, during a visit at the Reyhanli border crossing with Syria, near Hatay, southern Turkey. Haley is presenting another side of President Donald Trump's “America First” doctrine, one that focuses on human rights and humanitarian assistance. (AP Photo/Burhan Ozbilici, Pool)

From Nikki Haley, another side of Trump’s ‘America First’

By JOSH LEDERMAN - Associated Press

Illustration on Trump's changing positions on climate change by Donna Grethen/Tribune Content Agency

Fairbanks Declaration should alarm conservatives

By Tom Harris

In this Sept. 13, 2016 photo, a Sri Lanka Air Force airman carries the U.N. flag during training for a road patrol at the Institute of Peace Support Operations Training in Kukuleganga, Sri Lanka. Instructors at the training camp said they have taken steps to address the risk of sexual abuse and exploitation since the child sex ring scandal in Haiti. (AP Photo/Eranga Jayawardena)

UN Peacekeepers: How a Haiti child sex ring was whitewashed

By KATY DAIGLE and PAISLEY DODDS - Associated Press

In this Sept. 13, 2016 photo, a Sri Lanka Air Force airman carries the U.N. flag during training for a road patrol at the Institute of Peace Support Operations Training in Kukuleganga, Sri Lanka. Instructors at the training camp said they have taken steps to address the risk of sexual abuse and exploitation since the child sex ring scandal in Haiti. (AP Photo/Eranga Jayawardena)

UN Peacekeepers: How a Haiti child sex ring was whitewashed

By KATY DAIGLE and PAISLEY DODDS - Associated Press

In this Sept. 13, 2016 photo, a Sri Lanka Air Force airman carries the U.N. flag during training for a road patrol at the Institute of Peace Support Operations Training in Kukuleganga, Sri Lanka. Instructors at the training camp said they have taken steps to address the risk of sexual abuse and exploitation since the child sex ring scandal in Haiti. (AP Photo/Eranga Jayawardena)

UN Peacekeepers: How a Haiti child sex ring was whitewashed

By KATY DAIGLE and PAISLEY DODDS - Associated Press

UN chief: Health care attacked in over 20 conflict countries

By EDITH M. LEDERER - Associated Press

In this Wednesday, May 3, 2017 photo, a North Korean soldier looks through a pair of binoculars as he stands at a guard tower on the border near Chongsu in North Korea's North Pyongan Province, as seen from across the border in Dandong in northeastern China's Liaoning Province. The top U.S. diplomat for East Asia said Friday, May 26, 2017, that Chinese officials have told Washington they have tightened border controls with North Korea as part of U.N. sanctions aimed at halting Pyongyang's nuclear and missile activities. (Chinatopix via AP)

US diplomat: China tightened border controls with N. Korea

By CHRISTOPHER BODEEN - Associated Press

This is an aerial photo taken Saturday May 8, 2017, showing the area near Zemio, Central African Republic. Earlier in the month, a group of Lord's Resistance Army fighters attacked the village of Banangui, about 35 miles from Zemio. Wearing military uniforms and armed with AK-47s, they wounded two civilians and kidnapped 16 people, according to a non-profit group monitoring the security situation.(AP Photo/Zack Baddorf)

‘In turmoil again’: Central African Republic unrest spreads

By ZACK BADDORF - Associated Press

Chinese Ambassador to the United Nations Liu Jieyi enters a Security Council meeting about North Korea at U.N. headquarters, Tuesday, May 23, 2017. (AP Photo/Seth Wenig)

China calls for new talks with North Korea on nukes

By EDITH M. LEDERER - Associated Press

FILE - In this Wednesday April 28, 2010 file photo, United Nations World Heath Organization Director-General Margaret Chan, left, shakes hands with North Korea's No. 2 leader Kim Yong Nam, before sitting down for a formal meeting in Pyongyang. After leading the World Health Organization for the last decade, Dr. Margaret Chan knows all too well how politics infuses actions at nearly every level of the U.N. agency. As WHO member countries prepare to elect her successor on Tuesday, May 23, 2017 the Associated Press reveals eyebrow-raising details from internal documents that show how she appeased dictators in Turkmenistan and North Korea - and told then-Prime Minister Vladimir Putin she'd see to how WHO might hire more Russians. (AP Photo, file)

AP Exclusive: Outgoing WHO head practiced art of appeasement

By MARIA CHENG - Associated Press

China's Margaret Chan, Director General of the World Health Organization, WHO, addresses her statement, during the 70th World Health Assembly at the European headquarters of the United Nations in Geneva, Switzerland, Monday, May 22, 2017. (Salvatore Di Nolfi/Keystone via AP)

The Latest: Ethiopia’s PM hails Tedros election as WHO chief

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United Nations High Representative for Disarmament Affairs, Izumi Nakamitsu, speaks during a Security Council meeting on Syria at U.N. headquarters, Tuesday, May 23, 2017. (AP Photo/Seth Wenig)

UN: chemical experts found sarin exposure in Syria attack

By EDITH M. LEDERER - Associated Press