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Dr Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, from Ethiopia, candidate to the position of Director General of the World Health Organization (WHO), leaves after delivering a 15-minute speech during the 70th World Health Assembly at the European headquarters of the United Nations in Geneva, Switzerland, Tuesday, May 23, 2017. (Valentin Flauraud/Keystone via AP)

Ethiopia’s Tedros to be next leader of UN health agency

By JAMEY KEATEN and MARIA CHENG - Associated Press

In this Tuesday, March 29, 2016, file photo, Margaret Chan, left, General Director of the World Health Organization (WHO), and Bruce Aylward, right, Executive Director of WHO and Health Emergencies Director-General's Special Representative for the Ebola Response, speak to the media after The International Health Regulations Emergency Committee on Ebola, during a press conference, at the WHO headquarters in Geneva, Switzerland. The World Health Organization routinely spends about $200 million a year on travel, far more than what it doles out to fight some of the biggest problems in public health including AIDS, tuberculosis and malaria, according to internal documents obtained by The Associated Press, published Sunday, May 21, 2017. (Salvatore Di Nolfi/Keystone via AP, File)

AP Exclusive: Health agency spends more on travel than AIDS

By MARIA CHENG - Associated Press

U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations Nikki Haley, background center, looks on as a bandaged Syrian refugee has his iris scanned at a supermarket, Sunday, May 21, 2017 in Zaatari Refugee Camp, Jordan. Haley said the Trump administration wants to step up help for the millions of displaced Syrians. Yet Haley's message is at odds with President Donald Trump's &quot;America First&quot; agenda, his planned budget cuts and his hardline position on admitting refugees. (AP Photo/Raad Adayleh, Pool)

US ambassador assures Syrian refugees more help is coming

By JOSH LEDERMAN - Associated Press

In this Tuesday, March 29, 2016, file photo, Margaret Chan, left, General Director of the World Health Organization (WHO), and Bruce Aylward, right, Executive Director of WHO and Health Emergencies Director-General's Special Representative for the Ebola Response, speak to the media after The International Health Regulations Emergency Committee on Ebola, during a press conference, at the WHO headquarters in Geneva, Switzerland. The World Health Organization routinely spends about $200 million a year on travel, far more than what it doles out to fight some of the biggest problems in public health including AIDS, tuberculosis and malaria, according to internal documents obtained by The Associated Press, published Sunday, May 21, 2017. (Salvatore Di Nolfi/Keystone via AP, File)

AP Exclusive: UN health agency slammed for high travel costs

By MARIA CHENG - Associated Press

This photo shows the five-star Palm Camayenne Hotel in Conakry, Guinea, on Saturday, May 20, 2017. On a recent trip to Guinea where Margaret Chan, General Director of the World Health Organization, praised health workers in West Africa for triumphing over Ebola, she stayed in the presidential suite at the Palm Camayenne hotel in Conakry, which has an advertised price of 900 euros a night. As the cash-strapped U.N. health agency has pleaded for more money to fund its responses to health crises worldwide, it has also been struggling to get its own travel costs under control. (AP Photo/Youssouf Bah)

AP Exclusive: Strapped UN health agency spends big on travel

By MARIA CHENG - Associated Press

Defense Secretary James Mattis' authority to set U.S. troop levels for Afghanistan and the fight against Islamic State could ease the bitter bureaucratic battles that divided the Obama White House and the Pentagon over war strategy. (Associated Press/File)

NKorea vows to strengthen nukes as US increases pressure

By EDITH M. LEDERER and MATTHEW PENNINGTON - Associated Press

FIFA President Gianni Infantino, left, speaks during the FIFA Congress, in Manama, Bahrain, Thursday, May 11 2017. Addressing his second congress of soccer nations as FIFA president, Infantino lambasted &quot;fake news&quot; following criticism of his leadership. Infantino didn't cite any reports but it comes in the week ethics judge Hans-Joachim Eckert and FIFA prosecutor Cornel Borbely denounced the decision to remove them from their posts. (AP Photo)

2 more members leave FIFA governance panel

By GRAHAM DUNBAR - Associated Press

Kim Jong-un Missile Mouth Illustration by Greg Groesch/The Washington Times

North Korean aggression has China hedging bets

By James A. Lyons

UN, Microsoft announce $5M partnership on human rights

By Associated Press - Associated Press

This photo provided by the Syrian anti-government activist group Ghouta Media Center, which has been authenticated based on its contents and other AP reporting, shows a Syrian boy who was wounded by Syrian government forces shelling, at a makeshift hospital, in the Hamouriyya neighborhood, an eastern suburb of Damascus, Syria, Tuesday, May 16, 2017. Syrian activists say a number of rockets struck the opposition-controlled suburb, killing several people. (Ghouta Media Center via AP)

The Latest: UN suspects cruel treatment in Syrian prisons

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U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations Nikki Haley, right, is joined by Korean Ambassador Tae-yul Cho as she speak to reporters before a Security Council meeting on the situation in North Korea, Tuesday, May 16, 2017 at United Nations headquarters. (AP Photo/Mary Altaffer)

US envoy: North Korea is intimidating the entire world

By EDITH M. LEDERER - Associated Press

ADDS DETAIL ABOUT MISSILE - In this April 15, 2017, file photo, an unidentified missile that analysts believe could be the North Korean Hwasong-12 is paraded across Kim Il Sung Square in Pyongyang. The country's official Korean Central News Agency said the missile fired Sunday, May 14, 2017, was a Hwasong-12 &quot;capable of carrying a large-size heavy nuclear warhead.&quot; The Hwasong-10 appeared in the military parade in Pyongyang on April 15, 2017, followed by this unidentified missile. (AP Photo/Wong Maye-E, File)

North Korea: New long-range missile can carry heavy nuke

By FOSTER KLUG - Associated Press

This May 14, 2017, photo distributed by the North Korean government shows the &quot;Hwasong-12,&quot; a new type of ballistic missile at an undisclosed location in North Korea. North Korea on Monday, May 15, 2017, boasted of a successful weekend launch of a new type of &quot;medium long-range&quot; ballistic rocket that can carry a nuclear warhead. Outsiders also saw a significant technological jump, with the test-fire apparently flying higher and for a longer time period than any other such previous missile. Independent journalists were not given access to cover the event depicted in this photo. (Korean Central News Agency/Korea News Service via AP)

The Latest: Security Council condemns NKorea missile test

Associated Press

UN forces retake strategic areas of C. African Republic city

By HIPPOLYTE MARBOUA - Associated Press

Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe speaks to the media at the prime minister's official residence in Tokyo shortly after learning that North Korea conducted a missile launch test, Sunday morning, May 14, 2017. Japan's Chief Cabinet Secretary Yoshihide Suga said the missile test-fired by North Korea flew 800 kilometers (500 miles) for about 30 minutes and landed in the Sea of Japan, but not inside Japan's exclusive economic zone. (Hiroki Yamauchi/Kyodo News via AP)

The latest: Australia says China responsible for NKorea

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FILE - In this April 7, 2015, file photo, A Cambodian soldier who leads a troop takes the oath of the United Nations mission in Mali and South Sudan in Africa during a send-off ceremony for the Cambodian military personnel at the Royal Cambodian Air Force in Phnom Penh, Cambodia. Attackers in Central African Republic, the western neighbor nation of South Sudan, ambushed a convoy of U.N. peacekeepers, killing one Cambodian soldier and wounding another, Cambodia's prime minister said Tuesday, May 9, 2017. (AP Photo/Heng Sinith, File)

4 UN peacekeepers killed in Central African Republic

By EDITH M. LEDERER and SOPHENG CHEANG - Associated Press

Russian President Vladimir Putin, right, and Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan shake hands after a news conference following their talks in Putin's residence in the Russian Black Sea resort of Sochi, Russia, Wednesday, May 3, 2017. The presidents of Russia and Turkey are holding talks on the situation in Syria and also the restoration of full economic ties between their two countries. (AP Photo/Alexander Zemlianichenko, Pool)

The Latest: Russia-backed Syria deal enters into effect

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Residents say South Sudan troops remove 5,000 from church

By JUSTIN LYNCH - Associated Press

UN expert in Saudi denied access to imprisoned activists

By AYA BATRAWY - Associated Press