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Doctors Without Borders blasts UN in South Sudan

By ILYA GRIDNEFF - Associated Press

John Wikoff, left, watches as John Elliott plants corn in what was once a rice field, Wednesday, March 19, 2014, in Bay City. "It's disheartening to lose your rice farming and your livelihood," Elliott said. "I hope we can survive this; we had to retool and spend over $250,000 to buy a planter, tractor and equipment." Matagorda County farmers are being forced to downsize their farming operation and change crops, from rice to dry land corn, due to a lack of irrigation water for the third consecutive year from the Colorado River. (AP Photo/Houston Chronicle, Michael Paulsen/File)

U.N. climate alarmism on food supply all bunk, other scientific group says

By Cheryl K. Chumley - The Washington Times

U.S. Ambassador to the U.N. Samantha Power addresses Wednesday April 9, 2014 top officials from the African peacekeeping mission known as MISCA, in Bangui, Central African Republic. Power urged more support for the existing African and French troops in Central African Republic on the eve of a U.N. vote to create a peacekeeping mission expected to take at least five months to have ready on the ground. (AP Photo/Jerome Delay)

US envoy: C. African Republic needs more troops

By KRISTA LARSON - Associated Press

Cautious: "We are still stuck in the beginning of the process," Greek Cypriot negotiator Andreas Mavroyiannis says about unification talks. (Associated Press)

Negotiator says U.S. was wrong to back U.N. plan for Cyprus in 2004

By Ashish Kumar Sen - The Washington Times

Illustration by Greg Groesch for The Washington Times

EDITORIAL: Another red line for Obama, this time with Iran, Aboutalebi

By THE WASHINGTON TIMES

Rights group: No justice in C. African Republic

By EDITH M. LEDERER - Associated Press

Women from the Bosnian town of Srebrenica wait for judges to enter a court in The Hague, Netherlands, Monday, April 7, 2014. Mothers and widows of men murdered in Europe's worst massacre since World War II are suing the Dutch government for failing to protect their husbands and sons during the 1995 Srebrenica genocide. The civil case starting Monday in the courtroom focuses on the failure of Dutch troops serving as United Nations peacekeepers to protect Muslim men in the protected enclave in eastern Bosnia from rebel Serbs who overran the town and killed some 8,000 men and boys. (AP Photo/Peter Dejong)

Srebrenica widows sue Dutch government

By MIKE CORDER - Associated Press

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu chairs the weekly cabinet meeting in his office in Jerusalem, Sunday, April 6, 2014. (AP Photo/Gali Tibbon, Pool)

Israelis, Palestinians call on U.S. to mediate new round of peace talks

By Cheryl K. Chumley - The Washington Times

FILE - In this Thursday, Jan. 23, 2014 file photo, African Union peacekeepers and French troops take position at the PK11 checkpoint in Bangui, Central African Republic. The government of Chad said Thursday, April 3, 2014, it is withdrawing more than 800 peacekeepers from a mission to stabilize neighboring Central African Republic after the Chadian troops came under scrutiny for firing into a crowd of civilians last week, killing at least 32 people. (AP Photo/Jerome Delay, File)

UN chief Ban Ki-moon visits C. African Republic

By STEVE NIKO and KRISTA LARSON - Associated Press

** FILE ** In this Tuesday April 1, 2014 photo, Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas, right, joined by Palestinian chief peace negotiator Saeb Erekat, signs an application to the U.N. agencies in the West Bank city of Ramallah. (AP Photo/Majdi Mohammed, File)

Israel says it won’t release Palestinian prisoners

By Ian Deitch - Associated Press

American diplomats being held hostage by Iranian terrorists at the U.S. Embassy in Tehran from 1979-1980 Associated Press photo

BRUCE: Confusing an Iranian terrorist with a diplomat

By Tammy Bruce

18 countries ratify UN Arms Trade Treaty

By EDITH M. LEDERER - Associated Press

**FILE** In this Nov. 9, 1979, file photo, one of the hostages being held at the U.S. Embassy in Tehran is displayed to the crowd, blindfolded and with his hands bound, outside the embassy. Fifty-two of the hostages endured 444 days of captivity. (AP Photo/File)

U.S. troubled by Iran U.N. nominee with hostage crisis ties

By Ashish Kumar Sen - The Washington Times

United States Ambassador to the United Nations Samantha Power speaks at United Nations headquarters, Thursday, March 27, 2014. The draft resolution of the U.N. General Assembly on Ukraine is "confrontational in nature", Russian Permanent Representative to the United Nations Vitaly Churkin said on Thursday, March 27. "Russia&#8217;s attitude towards the proposed draft resolution is negative. It is confrontational in nature," he said before the vote in the U.N. General Assembly. (AP Photo/Seth Wenig)

EDITORIAL: Samantha Powerless on Syria genocide

By THE WASHINGTON TIMES

** FILE ** Then-Deputy CIA Director Michael J. Morell received an email dated Sept. 15, 2012, from the Libya station chief saying that the Benghazi attack was "not an escalation of protests." (Associated Press)

CIA ignored station chief in Libya when creating talking points on Benghazi

By Guy Taylor - The Washington Times

Afghan police men take up positions as Taliban militants attacked the main Afghan election commission's headquarters in the outskirts of Kabul, Afghanistan, firing on the compound with rocket-propelled grenades and heavy machine guns from a house outside its perimeter wall, Saturday, March 29, 2014. Dozens of employees and other people who had been inside the Independent Election Commission compound took cover in the basement, and no casualties were reported. But two warehouses were hit and set on fire, witnesses said. (AP Photo/Anja Niedringhaus)

Taliban attack hits election commission’s headquarters in Kabul

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Former president Bill Clinton speaks at a student conference for the Clinton Global Initiative University at Arizona State University, in this March 21, 2014, file photo taken in Tempe, Ariz. (AP Photo/Ross D. Franklin, File)

Obama taps critic of Clinton’s Rwanda handling to head delegation remembering genocide

By Dave Boyer - The Washington Times