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Egyptian journalists hold a protest for Christians who were killed in Libya, at the journalists syndicate in Cairo, Egypt, Wednesday, Feb. 18, 2015. An Islamic State video released on 15 February claimed to show the extremist group beheading 21 Egyptian Christians abducted in Libya more than a month ago. Arabic on the banners read, "a protest to morn the victims of terrorism in Libya," top, " we are not afraid from ISIS terrorism," center. (AP Photo/Amr Nabil)

For Middle East Christians, UN indifference is deadly

Catholic News Agency

North Korean soldiers stand guard at the Demilitarized Zone that separates the two halves of the Korean Peninsula at Panmunjom, North Korea. The building in the background stands in the South. (Associated Press)

U.S. military says tensions are up on DMZ in Koreas

By Guy Taylor - The Washington Times

South Korean President Park Geun-hye, bottom center, gives three cheers with a national flag during a ceremony to celebrate the March First Independence Movement Day, the anniversary of the 1919 uprising against Japanese colonial rule, in Seoul, South Korea, Sunday, March 1, 2015. (AP Photo/Ahn Young-joon, Pool)

Seoul hopes to build U.N. headquarters, peace park near North Korea’s DMZ

By Guy Taylor - The Washington Times

Illustration on continuing political and existential threats to Israel by Alexander Hunter/The Washington Times

STEVEN ROSEN: Real U.S.-Israel crisis lies ahead

By Steven J. Rosen

Rajendra K. Pachauri. (AP Photo/Gurinder Osan, file)']

EDITORIAL: Rajendra Pachauri resigns U.N. global warming post over sexual harassment scandal

By THE WASHINGTON TIMES

In this file photo taken on Wednesday, Oct. 29, 2014, Iranian President Hassan Rouhani speaks during a debate on a vote of confidence for his choice for the new minister of Science, Research and Technology, Mahmoud Nili Ahmadabadi, in an open session of parliament in Tehran, Iran. (AP Photo/Ebrahim Noroozi, File)

Iran running clandestine nuclear facility; group says it has proof

By Guy Taylor - The Washington Times

FILE- In this Feb. 6, 2010 file photo, Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change Chairman Rajendra Pachauri listens to a speaker at the Delhi Sustainable Development Summit in New Delhi, India. The leader of the U.N.'s expert panel on climate change has stepped down amid an investigation into allegations of sexual harassment in his native India. (AP Photo/Gurinder Osan, file)

Rajendra Pachauri, U.N. climate change leader, resigns over sexual harassment claims

By Christopher White - The Washington Times

Israeli spy agency broke with Netanyahu on Iran threat — report

By Guy Taylor - The Washington Times

Houthi Shiite Yemenis wearing army uniforms ride in a pickup while patrolling in a street near Republican Palace, in Sanaa, Yemen, Monday, Feb. 16, 2015. (AP Photo/Hani Mohammed)

U.N. Security Council OKs resolution against Yemen rebels

By Cara Anna - Associated Press

Ukrainian government soldiers sit on top of their armored vehicle driving on a road stretching away from the town of Artemivsk, Ukraine, towards Debaltseve, Tuesday, Feb. 17, 2015. Ukrainian government troops and Russia-backed rebels failed Tuesday to start pulling back heavy weaponry from the front line in eastern Ukraine as a deadline passed to do so. (AP Photo/Petr David Josek)

Ukraine says some soldiers taken prisoner in Debaltseve

By Petr Josek and Nataliya Vasilyeva - Associated Press

Ukrainian government soldiers sat on their armored vehicle driving on a road away from the town of Artemivsk as separatists pushed deeper into Debaltseve.

Pro-Russia separatists ignore Ukraine cease-fire deadline, push deeper into Debaltseve

By Guy Taylor - The Washington Times

Congolese President Joseph Kabila took the oath of office for a second five-year term in 2011. He was supposed to step aside when his second full term ended in December, but elections have been put on hold because of political squabbling and another outbreak of violence. (Associated Press/File)

Congo president slams U.N. withdrawal from anti-rebel mission

By SALEH MWANAMILONGO - Associated Press

This undated file image posted on a militant website Jan. 14, 2014 shows fighters from the al Qaeda-linked Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) marching through Raqqa, Syria. (AP Photo/Militant Website, File)

New sanctions proposed for Islamic State group oil trading

By Edith M. Lederer - Associated Press

Syrian refugee children who fled violence in Syrian city of Ain al-Arab, known also as Kobani, play outside their tents in a camp in the border town of Suruc, Turkey, Sunday, Feb. 1, 2015. About 200,000 people arrived in Turkey since the start of fighting between Kurdish militia and Islamic State militants mid-September, 2014.(AP Photo/Emrah Gurel)

Islamic State ramps up child slavery as terror-funding moneymaker: report

By Douglas Ernst - The Washington Times

In this July 25, 2013, file photo, North Korean leader Kim Jong-un, center, arrives at the cemeteries of fallen fighters of the Korean People's Army (KPA) in Pyongyang, North Korea. (AP Photo/Wong Maye-E, File)

Marzuki Darusman, U.N. human rights head: We should ‘dismantle’ North Korea regime

By Cheryl K. Chumley - The Washington Times

Echoes of the past: Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton recalled the Rwanda genocide in making her case for U.S. intervention in Libya. (Associated Press Photographs)

Hillary Clinton undercut on Libya war by Pentagon and Congress, secret tapes reveal

By Jeffrey Scott Shapiro and Kelly Riddell - The Washington Times

Sen. Robert Menendez, New Jersey Democrat, had previously co-authored legislation to tighten sanctions on Iran if there is no deal by the end of June, but he said Tuesday that he and other party leaders want to give the Obama administration until at least March 24 before throwing their weight behind the legislation — and they'll only support it if there's no agreement in place with Tehran by then. (Associated Press)

Senate Democrats bow to Obama on Iran, pull support for immediate new sanctions

By Guy Taylor - The Washington Times