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In this Oct. 17, 2014 photo, a worker walks at power plant area in Cirebon. The sprawling power station that hums and coughs along this coast in Indonesia is labeled as a Japanese contribution to the global fight against climate change. The plants promote new coal technology from Japanese companies, which is cleaner than old coal technology but still pollutes far more than solar, wind or natural gas. Villagers nearby also complain that the coal plant is damaging the local environment, and that stocks of fish, shrimp and green mussels have dwindled. (AP Photo/Achmad Ibrahim)

Climate funds for coal highlight lack of UN rules

By Karl Ritter and Margie Mason - Associated Press

Peru's Minister of the Environment and new President of COP20, Manuel Pulgar-Vidal, talks during the opening ceremony of the Climate Change Conference in Lima, Peru, Monday, Dec. 1, 2014. Delegates from more than 190 countries will meet in Lima for the next two weeks to work on drafts for a global climate deal that is supposed to be adopted next year in Paris. (AP Photo/Martin Mejia)

Climate change impacts heat up UN talks in Lima

By Karl Ritter and Frank Bajak - Associated Press

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In this Nov. 13, 2014, photo, a passenger airliner flies past smokes emitted from a coal-fired power plant in Beijing, China. A coalition of rights groups wants G-20 leaders to take action to improve the lives of the most vulnerable in society, reduce inequality and address climate change. (AP Photo/Andy Wong, File)

UN: World not close to avoiding dangerous warming

By Seth Borenstein - Associated Press

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

KANG: Legitimacy and justice on the Korean peninsula

By Grace Kang

An Afghan farmer works on a poppy field in the Khogyani district of Jalalabad, east of Kabul. Last May's harvest produced a staggering 6,000 tons of opium, 49 percent higher than the previous year and more than the combined output of the rest of the world, according to a report issued Wednesday. (Associated Press)

Audit: State Dept. fails to track billions of U.S. dollars in Afghan anti-drug efforts

By Guy Taylor - The Washington Times

The parents of Michael Brown, Lesley McSpadden, left, and Michael Brown, Sr., right, speak to The Associated Press during an interview in Washington, Saturday, Sept. 27, 2014. Michael Brown's parents say they are unmoved by the Ferguson police chief's apology in their son's shooting death by a police officer. Instead, Lesley McSpadden and Michael Brown Sr. told The Associated Press they would rather see an arrest, and Brown Sr. said he wants the police officer &quot;in handcuffs.&quot; (AP Photo/Susan Walsh)

Michael Brown’s parents ask U.N. panel on torture to recommend Darren Wilson’s arrest

By Jessica Chasmar - The Washington Times

Illustration on the media's unquestioning promotion of the theory of man-made global warming by Alexander Hunter/The Washington Times

TOM HARRIS: Unquestioningly one-sided climate-change coverage

By Tom Harris

Illustration on the failing results of our training of Iraqi defense forces by Linas Garsys/The Washington Times

WEINER & ABAY: The myth of ‘training’ to fight ISIS

By Robert Weiner and Joseph Abay

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Opponents of gay conversion therapy make case to U.N.; equate forced orientation change with torture

By Cheryl Wetzstein - The Washington Times

U.S. President Barack Obama addresses the Climate Summit at United Nations headquarters, Tuesday, Sept. 23, 2014. (AP Photo/Seth Wenig) **FILE**

C. BOYDEN GRAY: Obama’s empty promises, go-it-alone policies won’t fight climate change

By C. Boyden Gray

A hazmat worker looks up while finishing up cleaning outside an apartment building of a hospital worker, Sunday, Oct. 12, 2014, in Dallas. The Texas health care worker, who was in full protective gear when they provided hospital care for Ebola patient Thomas Eric Duncan, who later died, has tested positive for the virus and is in stable condition, health officials said Sunday. (AP Photo/LM Otero)

State Department plans to bring foreign Ebola patients to U.S.

By Stephen Dinan - The Washington Times

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KIM HOLMES: Uncomfortable truths: Explaining away Iraq’s real WMD

By Kim R. Holmes

The 615th Engineer Company, 52nd Engineer Battalion will be deploying approximately 160 engineers to West Africa to help with the fight against Ebola. The soldiers will not be working directly with Ebola patients, but are receiving specific medical training to ensure they are protected from exposure to Ebola. Some of those soldiers were training those skills on Thursday, Oct. 23, 2014. A line of soldiers hold up their hands to show that they have finished putting on their second layer of gloves. They wear a total of three pairs of gloves. (AP Photo/The Colorado Springs Gazette, Jerilee Bennett)

WHO: Number of Ebola-linked cases passes 10,000

By SARAH DiLORENZO - Associated Press

EDITORIAL: Tobacco neo-Prohibitionists at the U.N.

By THE WASHINGTON TIMES

Detroit residents address a panel, which includes members from the United Nations, during a UN Fact-Finding Detroit Town Hall Meeting, Sunday, Oct. 19, 2014, at Wayne County Community College in Detroit. The residents are explaining how the recent water shutoffs to their homes affect their lives. (AP Photo/Detroit News, Jose Juarez)

UN experts: Detroit should restore water to poor

By JEFF KAROUB - Associated Press

FILE : In this Saturday, Oct. 18, file photo a burial team in protective gear bury the body of a woman suspected to have died from Ebola virus in Monrovia, Liberia. The disease has ravaged a small part of Africa, but the international image of the whole continent is increasingly under siege, reinforcing some old stereotypes. (AP Photo/Abbas Dulleh, File)

Ebola: Africa’s image takes a hit

By CHRISTOPHER TORCHIA - Associated Press

A tobacco flower waves in a dew-covered field outside Rolesville, N.C., on Wednesday, Aug. 13, 2014. Researchers are using a relative of this smoking leaf to grow medicines for the flu and even, perhaps, ebola. (AP Photo/Allen G. Breed)

JOHNSON: The WHO’s secret tobacco tax

By Drew Johnson - The Washington Times