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"There are still differences but we are trying to finish the work as early as possible," said an optimistic Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif. (Associated Press)

White House pressed to extend Iran nuclear talks deadline

By Guy Taylor and Dave Boyer - The Washington Times

MEK residents at Camp Liberty in Iraq

Regime change in Iran: Why the U.S. must protect Camp Liberty

By Sen. Robert Menendez

The Road to Majority — an event for 2,000 faith-based activists and A-list Republicans — is now underway in the nation's capital. (Faith & Freedom Coalition)

Inside the Beltway: The climate, the pope, the skeptics

By Jennifer Harper - The Washington Times

Samantha Power, the U.S. ambassador to the United Nations, speak to an audience of civil society activists and politicians in Kiev, Ukraine, on Thursday, June 11, 2015. Power is visiting Ukraine as the country battles to overhaul the economy, combat corruption and wages a war against Russia-backed separatist rebels in the east. (AP Photo/Sergei Chuzavkov)

Hill hearing with U.N. Ambassador Samantha Power evacuated over ‘threat’

By Brennan Weiss - The Washington Times

U.S. United Nations Ambassador Samantha Power Tuesday faced intense grilling from lawmakers over Iran. Ms. Powers denied that the U.S. and its allies ignored sanction violations by Iran in order to preserve ongoing nuclear talks. (Associated Press) **FILE**

Samantha Power, U.N. ambassador, grilled on Iran sanctions violations

By Brennan Weiss - The Washington Times

UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon arrives on the eve of the Geneva Consultations on Yemen at the European headquarters of the United Nations, UN, in Geneva, Switzerland, Sunday, June 14, 2015. (Laurent Gillieron/Keystone via AP)

KIM HOLMES: U.N. at 70, time to turn over a new budgetary leaf

By Kim R. Holmes

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu chairs the weekly cabinet meeting at his office in Jerusalem, Sunday, June 14, 2015. (Gali Tibbon/Pool Photo via AP)

Israelis go on offensive ahead of UN report

By JOSEF FEDERMAN - Associated Press

FILE - In this Tuesday, March 30, 2010 file photo, United Nations peacekeepers patrol an earthquake survivors makeshift camp in Port-au-Prince. In 2015, troubled by peacekeepers' sexual relationships with the people they are meant to protect, the UN has quietly started helping with DNA collection to prove paternity claims for so-called &quot;peacekeeper babies.&quot; (AP Photo/Jorge Saenz)

Facing ‘peacekeeper babies,’ UN now offers DNA testing

By CARA ANNA - Associated Press

North Korean leader Kim Jong-un. (Associated Press) ** FILE **

North Korea provides Angola with military aid, violates U.N. sanctions

By Bill Gertz - Washington Free Beacon

U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry, left, talks with Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif, in Geneva, Switzerland, Saturday, May 30, 2015. Top U.S. and Iranian diplomats are gathering in Geneva this weekend, hoping to bridge differences over a nuclear inspection accord and economic sanctions on Tehran. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh, Pool)

U.N. report accuses U.S. of hiding Iran sanctions violations

By Guy Taylor - The Washington Times

FILE - In this Friday, March 20, 2015 file photo, U.N. special envoy to Libya, Bernardino Leon, speaks during a press conference at the Palais des Congres of Skhirate, 30 kilometers (19 miles) south of Rabat, Morocco. Libya's parliament drops out of U.N.-brokered negotiations in protest against a draft plan for it to share power with its rivals, throwing doubt on what is seen as a last-chance effort to avert the further collapse of the North African nation. (AP Photo/Abdeljalil Bounhar, File)

Libya talks endangered as Islamic State group advances

By RAMI MUSA and MAGGIE MICHAEL - Associated Press

Illustration on the Islamic Sharia roots of the Garland Texas terrorists by Alexander Hunter/The Washington Times

JAMES LYONS: Islamic law enforcers challenge Constitution’s free speech rights

By James A. Lyons

Htin Linn, the head of the Myanmar delegation, points while speaking at the "Special Meeting on Irregular Migration in the Indian Ocean" regarding the Rohingya and Bangladeshi migrant crisis at a hotel in Bangkok, Thailand, Friday, May 29, 2015. A regional meeting called to address the swelling tide of boat people in Southeast Asia began Friday with a defensive Myanmar official criticizing those who blame his country for causing the crisis, saying "finger pointing" would not help. (AP Photo/Charles Dharapak)

Myanmar warns against ‘finger pointing’ at migrant meeting

By Jocelyn Gecker and Malcolm J. Foster - The Washington Times

Anders Kompass, the U.N. High Commission for Human Rights representative in Guatemala, speaks with members of the media during a news conference in Guatemala City in this Feb. 13, 2006, file photo. The U.N.'s poor handling of child sex abuse claims against French soldiers has human rights staffers in the field fearing for their jobs as they struggle with how to respond to highly sensitive allegations in the future, according to a letter to the world body's human rights chief obtained by The Associated Press. (AP Photo/Moises Castillo, File)

U.N. rights staff fear for jobs amid abuse case

By Cara Anna - Associated Press

FILE - In this April 24, 2014, file photo provided by the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East (UNRWA), residents of the besieged Palestinian camp of Yarmouk stand in line to receive aid food distributed by UNRWA on the southern edge of the Syrian capital, Damascus. Conditions in the camp have deteriorated since Islamic State militants muscled their way into it in early April 2015. The militants are trying to consolidate their hold on the camp. (AP Photo/UNRWA, File)

UN: Fewer hungry people in the world despite wars, poverty

Associated Press

FILE - In this Feb. 13, 2006, file photo, Anders Kompass, the U.N. High Commission for Human Rights representative in Guatemala, speaks with members of the media during a news conference in Guatemala City. For months, the U.N.’s top human rights officials knew about allegations of child sexual abuse by French soldiers in Central African Republic, collected by their own staff. But they didn’t follow up because they assumed French authorities were handling it. When the allegations were first publicly reported, part of the uproar was over the suspension of the Geneva-based U.N. human rights staffer who first informed French authorities, Kompass. (AP Photo/Moises Castillo, File)

U.N. officials let child sex abuse claims linger

By Cara Anna - Associated Press

Migrants sit on their boat as they wait to be rescued by Acehnese fishermen on the sea off East Aceh, Indonesia, Wednesday, May 20, 2015. Hundreds of migrants stranded at sea for months were rescued and taken to Indonesia, officials said Wednesday, the latest in a stream of Rohingya and Bangladeshi migrants to reach shore in a growing crisis confronting Southeast Asia. (AP Photo/S. Yulinnas)

Malaysia orders sea search-and-rescue for migrants

By Eileen Ng and Jocelyn Gecker - Associated Press

U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon attends a meeting with South Korean President Park Geun-hye at the presidential Blue House in Seoul Wednesday, May 20, 2015. Ban said Wednesday that North Korea had cancelled an invitation for him to visit a factory park in the country that represents the last major cooperation project between the rival Koreas. (Jung Yeon-je/Pool Photo via AP)

Ban Ki-moon, U.N. chief, says North Korea cancels invitation to visit

By Hyung-jin Kim - Associated Press

In this picture taken, Wednesday, May 6, 2015, Syrian refugee Fatmeh Ahmed, 20, holds her 10-month-old son, Hassan, in their shack on a peach farm near the northern Jordanian community of Salhiyeh. Ahmed, and her husband live on $9-a-day jobs on the farm, after they lost $100 a month in food vouchers due to cuts by the cash-strapped World Food Program. (AP Photo/Raad Adayleh)

Syrian refugees struggle amid aid cuts, lack of labor rights

By Karin Laub - Associated Press

Newly arrived Bangladeshi migrants receive medical treatments at Kuala Langsa Port in Langsa, Aceh province, Indonesia, Friday, May 15, 2015. (AP Photo/Binsar Bakkara)

1,000 migrants land in Indonesia, Thailand in growing crisis

By Niniek Karmini and Thanayrat Doksone - Associated Press