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FILE - In this May 5, 2014 file photo Archbishop Silvano M. Tomasi, Apostolic Nuncio, Permanent Observer of the Holy See (Vatican) to the Office of the United Nations in Geneva, delivers his statement during the UN torture committee hearing on the Vatican, at the headquarters of the office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) in the Palais Wilson, in Geneva, Switzerland. The UN committee says Friday, May 23, 2014, the Vatican has effective control over bishops and priests around the world who must comply with a U.N. anti-torture treaty, a finding that could expose the Catholic Church to new lawsuits by victims of priestly sex abuse. The committee has repeatedly said rape and sexual violence can be considered torture cases, which in much of the world don&#8217;t carry statutes of limitations. (AP Photo/Keystone, Salvatore Di Nolfi, File)

U.N. anti-torture panel: Vatican needs more effort in dealing with sex abuse

By Meredith Somers - The Washington Times

A family watches a procession during the 40th anniversary of the assassination of priest Carlos Mugica at the "31" slum in Buenos Aires, Argentina, Sunday, May 11, 2014. The religious leader, who is widely recognized as the father of the social justice, was remembered with a procession inside &#8220;31&#8221;slum and a mass. He was assassinated in 1974 by the Argentine Anti-Communist Alliance when he had just finished celebrating a mass. (AP Photo/Natacha Pisarenko)

FEDEWA: Savage versus the pope

By Lawrence J. Fedewa

Malian army flees Tuareg rebels in northern town

By BABA AHMED - Associated Press

UN: 13 dead in cholera outbreak in South Sudan

Associated Press

Mali urges UN to demand disarmament of all groups

By EDITH M. LEDERER - Associated Press

Mohamed Aden, a malnourished two-year-old boy, sits on his mother's lap at Banadir hospital in Mogadishu, Somalia Tuesday, May 20, 2014. Much of Somalia has seen no or erratic rains in recent months and fighting between African Union forces and the Islamic extremists of al-Shabab is cutting off food shipments to many parts of the country and discouraging farmers from planting - as a result, 50,000 children are severely malnourished, says the aid community. (AP Photo/Farah Abdi Warsameh)

Hunger in Somalia: Familiar menace could return

By ABDI GULED and JASON STRAZIUSO - Associated Press

FILE -- In this Thursday, May 15, 2014 file photo, a Palestinian man shouts for help moments after Palestinian teen, Mohammad Abu Daher, on the ground, was shot to death by Israeli troops near the West Bank city of Ramallah. An investigation of a fatal West Bank clash between Israeli forces and Palestinian stone-throwers indicates that troops used live fire without justification and in violation of the army’s rules of engagement, an Israeli human rights group said Tuesday, May 20, 2014. The rights group B’Tselem said its findings are based on witness accounts and medical records. Spokeswoman Sarit Michaeli said security camera footage of the incident that surfaced late Monday supports the group’s findings. (AP Photo/Majdi Mohammed, File)

Video prompts look at killing of Palestinian teens

By KARIN LAUB - Associated Press

UN ambassador to speak at community conversation

Associated Press

UN watchdog: Peacekeepers almost never used force

By EDITH M. LEDERER - Associated Press

In this Tuesday, May 13, 2014 photo, Palestinian refugees Fathiyeh Sattari, 62, and her son Hassan, 40, look at their photograph that was taken at the Rafah U.N. Relief and Works Agency, UNRWA, clinic in 1975, at their family home in Rafah Refugee Camp, the southern Gaza Strip. The UNWRA photo shows Sattari, her eyes wide with worry, as she presents her malnourished baby boy, Hassan, to a doctor. The picture is part of UNWRA's vast photo archive being digitized in Gaza and Denmark to preserve a record of one of the world's most entrenched refugee problems, created in what the Palestinians call the &quot;Nakba,&quot; or “catastrophe”-- their uprooting in the war over Israel's 1948 creation. (AP Photo/Adel Hana)

UN photo archive tells story of Palestinian exodus

By KARIN LAUB and IBRAHIM BARZAK - Associated Press

President Barack Obama speaks to the media at the Washington Irving Boat Club in Tarrytown, N.Y., Wednesday, May 14, 2014. The President spoke about the need for Congress to fund road and bridge improvements across the nation. (AP Photo/Journal News, Seth Harrison, Pool)

Norway diplomat: Obama aide irked by peace prize

Associated Press

FILE - In this Jan. 27, 2014 file photo, U.N. mediator Lakhdar Brahimi listens during a press briefing at the United Nations headquarters in Geneva, Switzerland. Brahimi will resign as the joint U.N.-Arab League envoy on Syria after a nearly two-year effort that failed to bring peace to the war-ravaged country, the U.N. chief announced Tuesday, May 13, 2014. He will step down May 31. (AP Photo/Anja Niedringhaus, File)

Syrian official welcomes UN mediator’s resignation

By ALBERT AJI - Associated Press

In this Tuesday, May 13, 2014 photo, Palestinian refugees Fathiyeh Sattari, 62, and her son Hassan, 40, look at their photograph that was taken at the Rafah U.N. Relief and Works Agency, UNRWA, clinic in 1975, at their family home in Rafah Refugee Camp, the southern Gaza Strip. The UNWRA photo shows Sattari, her eyes wide with worry, as she presents her malnourished baby boy, Hassan, to a doctor. The picture is part of UNWRA's vast photo archive being digitized in Gaza and Denmark to preserve a record of one of the world's most entrenched refugee problems, created in what the Palestinians call the &quot;Nakba,&quot; or “catastrophe”-- their uprooting in the war over Israel's 1948 creation. (AP Photo/Adel Hana)

UN photo archive tells story of Palestinian exodus

By KARIN LAUB and IBRAHIM BARZAK - Associated Press

Arnold Schwarzenegger plays a cyborg assassin sent from the future in "The Terminator."

Red tape for killer robots: U.N. already plotting to outlaw cyborg assassins…really!

By John Heilprin - The Washington Times

O’CONNELL: An ideological grudge match at the U.N.

By Christian E. O'Connell

Botched Trade Illustration by Greg Groesch/The Washington Times

LYONS: Unanswered questions for Benghazi special committee

By James A. Lyons

UN experts: Iran’s banned nuke buying has showed

By EDITH M. LEDERER - Associated Press