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Accompanied by D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser, U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-Moon meets with students at Brookland Middle School and tours the school's glass-walled halls up to the rooftop, which is lined with solar panels. (Faith E. Pinho/THE WASHINGTON TIMES)

Ban Ki-moon, U.N. Secretary-General, recognizes D.C. middle school’s sustainable energy feats

By Faith E. Pinho - The Washington Times

Flint, Mich., residents and supporters wear shirts that reads "Flint Lives Matter" as they wait outside a committee hearing on the Flint water crisis in Washington on March 17, 2016. In proposing a tougher limit for lead in drinking water, Gov. Rick Snyder wants to lift Michigan from the depths of the Flint crisis to being a model for water safety that can help assess whether the current national rules governing lead are too lax. (Associated Press) **FILE**

U.S. racism, class discrimination to blame for Flint water scandal: U.N.

By David R. Sands - The Washington Times

In this Sunday, April 24, 2016, file photo made from video posted online by the Syrian Civil Defense White Helmets, people stand in rubble after airstrikes and shelling hit Aleppo, Syria. (Syrian Civil Defense White Helmets via AP video, File)

Deadly airstrikes hit MSF-supported hospital in Syrian city

By Sarah El Deeb - Associated Press

The motorcade carrying U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations Samantha Power passes people walking along a dirt road as she travels to visit the Malkohi Internally Displaced Person Camp in Yola, Nigeria, Friday, April 22, 2016. Power is traveling to Cameroon, Chad, and Nigeria to highlight the growing threat Boko Haram poses to the Lake Chad Basin region. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik)

RICHARD GRENELL: Ambassador Power’s failure to deal with Boko Haram

By Richard Grenell

About 160 countries are expected to sign the Paris Agreement on climate change on Friday in a symbolic triumph for a landmark deal that once seemed unlikely but now appears on track to enter into force years ahead of schedule. (Associated Press)

Climate agreement signing will bolster Obama’s legacy

By Valerie Richardson - The Washington Times

In this photo taken January 28, 2014, a french commercial jet, rear, taxis past the M’Poko refugee camp in Bangui, Central African Republic, where thousands had seek refuge from sectarian violence. The U.N. has reported it is now investigating more than 100 cases of sexual misconduct from peacekeepers here in Central African Republic, where violence exploded in late 2013. Peacekeepers from France, who are not part of the U.N. mission here, and other soldiers from a now repatriated European mission, are also facing accusations. (AP Photo/Jerome Delay)

Little help for survivors of Central African Republic abuses

By KRISTA LARSON - Associated Press

A Syrian army soldier rides his bike on a street in the Palmyra town in the central Homs province, Syria, Thursday, April 14, 2016. Russian combat engineers arrived in Syria on a mission to clear mines in Palmyra, which has been recaptured from Islamic State militants in an offensive that has proven Russia&#8217;s military might in Syria despite a drawdown of its warplanes. (AP Photo/Hassan Ammar)

Syrian government team joins Geneva talks amid Aleppo fighting

By Philip Issa - Associated Press

Shiite rebels, known as Houthis, pray at portrait adorned graves of Houthi fighters and supporters who were killed in the ongoing conflict in Yemen, a few hours before the start of a fresh cease-fire in Sanaa, Yemen, Sunday, April 10, 2016. (AP Photo/Hani Mohammed)

Sporadic fighting mars first day of cease-fire in Yemen

By Ahmed Al-Haj - Associated Press

In this file photo, Chinese president Xi Jinping, center, waves after he is greeted by Ambassador Peter A. Selfridge, left, Chief of Protocol of the United States, upon his arrival at the White House in Washington, Thursday, March 31, 2016. (Andrew Harnik/AP) **FILE**

China backs North Korea punishment but won’t abandon unruly ally, analysts say

By Guy Taylor - The Washington Times

NORTH KOREA NUCLEAR THREAT: U.N. sanctions deserve swift implementation

By Matt Salmon

NORTH KOREA NUCLEAR THREAT: Crimes against humanity demand accountability

By The Hon. Michael Kirby

A man watches a TV screen showing a file footage of the missile launch conducted by North Korea, at Seoul Railway Station in Seoul, South Korea, Friday, March 18, 2016. (AP Photo/Ahn Young-joon)

North Korea fires ballistic missile into sea, ignoring U.N. ban

By Hyung-Jin Kim and Kim Tong-Hyung - Associated Press

Nuclear Negotiations with North Korea Illustration by Linas Garsys/The Washington Times

JOSEPH DETRANI: North Korea negotiations, not capitulation

By Joseph R. DeTrani

U.N. Special Envoy of the Secretary-General for Syria, Staffan de Mistura, informs the media at the European headquarters of the United Nations in Geneva, Switzerland, Monday, March 14, 2016. Mistura alls peace talks "a moment of truth," says the "only Plan B available is return to war." (Salvatore Di Nolfi/Keystone via AP)

Staffan de Mistura, U.N. Syria envoy: Only Plan B to talks is ‘return to war’

By Jamey Keaten - Associated Press

JAMES A. LYONS: Islamic jihad roots lay in Crusades

By James A. Lyons

Protesters carry placards outside an Apple store in Boston on Feb. 23, 2016. Tech companies, security experts and civil liberties groups are filing court briefs supporting Apple in its battle with the FBI. The groups oppose a judge's order that would require Apple to help federal agents hack an encrypted iPhone used by a San Bernardino mass shooter. (Associated Press)

FBI’s hacking of iPhone opens Pandora’s box, U.N. official warns

By Andrea Noble - The Washington Times

Visitors look at a map of the Korean peninsula at the exhibition hall of the unification observatory in Paju, South Korea, Wednesday, Feb. 10, 2016. South Korea says it will suspend the operations at a joint industrial park with North Korea in response to the North's recent rocket launch. (AP Photo/Lee Jin-man) ** FILE **

Seoul: North Korea fires short-range projectiles into sea

By HYUNG-JIN KIM - Associated Press