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In this photo taken on Thursday, April 24, 2014, chess players consider their next move as the compete in the 41st United Nations Inter-Agency Games at Hofstra University in Hempstead, N.Y. The games were started in the early 1970s, but this is the first time the athletes are competing in the United States; all previous games have been in Europe. (AP Photo/Frank Eltman)

UN athletic competition comes to US for first time

By FRANK ELTMAN - Associated Press

This image was taken from video of people traveling on the road near Bentiu South Sudan on Sunday April 20, 2014. U.N.'s top humanitarian official in South Sudan Toby Lanzer told The Associated Press in a phone interview Tuesday, April 23, 2014, that the ethnically targeted killings are "quite possibly a game-changer" for a conflict that has been raging since mid-December and that has exposed longstanding ethnic hostilities. (AP Photo/Toby Lanzer, United Nations)

‘Piles and piles’ of bodies in South Sudan slaughter

By Jason Straziuso - Associated Press

Illustration on global warming warnings by Alexander Hunter/The Washington Times

RAHN: The global-warming apocalypses that didn’t happen

By Richard W. Rahn

** FILE ** Sen. Ted Cruz addresses the crowd at the Marine Military Academy in Harlingen, Texas, Thursday, April 17, 2014. (AP Photo/Valley Morning Star/David Pike)

Ted Cruz thanks Obama for denying visas to terrorists

By Jessica Chasmar - The Washington Times

UN says 58 killed in attack on UN base in SSudan

By EDITH M. LEDERER - Associated Press

UN seeks $274 million for Central African Republic

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In this photo provided by the United Nations, former New Zealand ambassador Colin Keating addresses an open session of the United Nations Security Council at United Nations Headquarters, Wednesday, April 16, 2014. Keating, who was president of the Security Council in April 1994, apologized Wednesday for the council's refusal to recognize that genocide was taking place in Rwanda and for doing nothing to halt the slaughter of more than one million people. (AP Photo/United Nations, Evan Schneider)

Apology for UN refusal to stop Rwanda genocide

By EDITH M. LEDERER - Associated Press

Correction: Charleston-World Heritage story

By BRUCE SMITH - Associated Press

In this Thursday, Feb. 6, 2014 photo provided by the office of the Iranian President, Hamid Aboutalebi, an Iranian diplomat, who was recently named as Iran's ambassador to the United Nations, speaks at his office in Tehran, Iran. Iran has no plans to name a new diplomat to the United Nations, its Foreign Ministry said Saturday April 12, 2014, after the United States blocked its pick in a rare rebuke that could stir fresh animosity at a time when the two countries have been seeking a thaw in relations. The Obama administration said Friday that the U.S. had informed Iran it would not grant a visa to Hamid Aboutalebi, a member of the group responsible for the 1979 takeover of the U.S. Embassy in Tehran. (AP Photo/Iranian Presidency Office, Mohammad Berno)

U.S. rebukes Iran’s U.N. envoy pick over 1979 embassy attack

By Ashish Kumar Sen - The Washington Times

European foreign policy chief Catherine Ashton and Iranian Foreign Minister Mohamad Javad Zarif, from left, arrive to address the media after closed-door nuclear talks in Vienna, Austria, Wednesday, April 9, 2014. (AP Photo/Ronald Zak)

Iran cuts proliferation-prone uranium stock

By GEORGE JAHN - Associated Press

Ramon Pichs Madruga, Co-Chairman of the IPCC Working Group III, Ottmar Edenhofer, Co-Chairman of the IPCC Working Group III, and Rejendra K. Pachauri, Chairman of the IPCC, from left, pose prior to a press conference as part of a meeting of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) in Berlin, Germany, Sunday, April 13, 2014. The panel met from April 7, 2014 until April 12, 2014 in the German capital. (AP Photo/Michael Sohn)

U.N. climate experts call for ‘near zero’ emissions, global taxes

By Cheryl K. Chumley - The Washington Times

Pro-Russian men throw stones during the mass storming of a police station in Horlivka, eastern Ukraine, Monday, April 14, 2014. Ukraine's acting President Oleksandr Turchynov on Monday called for the deployment of United Nations peacekeeping troops in the east of the country, where pro-Russian insurgents have occupied buildings in nearly 10 cities. (AP Photo/Efrem Lukatsky)

Ukraine asks for U.N. peacekeepers in restive east

By Maria Danilova and Peter Leonard - Associated Press

In this Friday, April 11, 2014 image made from amateur video, provided by Shams News Network, a loosely organized anti-Assad group based in and out of Syria that claim not to have any connection to Syrian opposition parties or any other states, and is consistent with independent AP reporting, shows a man as he lies on the floor with an oxygen mask at a hospital room in Kfar Zeita, some 200 kilometers (125 miles) north of Damascus, Syria. Syrian government media and rebel forces said Saturday, April 12, 2014 that poison gas had been used in the village, on Friday injuring scores of people, while blaming each other for the attack. (AP Photo/Shams News Network)

Poison gas claims complicate Syrian civil war

By BASSEM MROUE - Associated Press

UN expert weighs in on Redskins controversy

Associated Press

Navajo Council, UN expert criticize Redskins name

Associated Press

A woman walks past a truck waiting to leave for Chad loaded with goods belonging to Muslim residents of the PK5 district of Bangui, Central African Republic, Wednesday April 9, 2014. The U.S. ambassador to the United Nations on Wednesday urged more support for existing African and French troops in Central African Republic on the eve of a U.N. vote to create a peacekeeping mission. (AP Photo/Jerome Delay)

UN may approve force for Central African Republic

By EDITH M. LEDERER - Associated Press

Congress to Iran: Ambassador’s application denied

By DONNA CASSATA - Associated Press

Muslim children gather at a water pump outside the mosque at PK12 in Bangui, Central African Republic, Thursday, April 10, 2014. A few hundred Muslims remain at the entrance of Bangui, waiting for transport to neighboring Chad. (AP Photo/Jerome Delay)

U.N. approves force for Central African Republic

By Edith M. Lederer - Associated Press

House follows Senate in passing bill to bar Iran’s U.N. pick

By Ashish Kumar Sen - The Washington Times