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UNHCR goodwill ambassador Angelina Jolie speaks during a conference in Sarajevo, Bosnia, on Friday March 28, 2014. British Foreign Secretary William Hague and Hollywood star Angelina Jolie addressed a conference organized in Sarajevo by Bosnia's Defense Ministry on sexual violence in conflict. (AP Photo/Sulejman Omerbasic)

Jolie, Hague hail Bosnia’s anti-rape training

By SABINA NIKSIC - Associated Press

In this Feb. 10, 2014, photo, a farmer shows a cluster of dead snails prior to being prepared for planting at a rice field in Calamba city, Laguna province, about 70 kilometers (44 miles) south of Manila, Philippines. The aftermath of Typhoon Haiyan in the Philippines has added urgency to finding a solution to a longstanding problem: Less than 10 percent of farmers have crop insurance, and while its advantages are widely understood, few can afford it. (AP Photo/Bullit Marquez)

U.N. climate author withdraws because the report has become ‘too alarmist’

By Cheryl K. Chumley - The Washington Times

FILE - In this March 3, 2010 file photo Salt Lake City Mayor Ralph Becker speaks during a Clean Energy Economy Forum in the Eisenhower Executive Office Building across from the White House in Washington. In a sweeping review of the United States’ civil rights record, a United Nations panel pointed to serious shortcomings Thursday, March 27, 2014, in what it described as an overall lack of adequate oversight and transparency in national security programs dealing with everything from electronic surveillance to targeted drone killings to secret detentions. Becker and Mississippi Attorney General Jim Hood were the two non-federal officials chosen by the U.S. government to represent its civil rights record on the state and local levels. The panel's report Thursday is based on extensive study and questioning of U.S. officials, including Becker and Hood, at the hearing earlier this month. (AP Photo/Haraz N. Ghanbari, File)

UN raps US civil rights record on secret programs

By JOHN HEILPRIN - Associated Press

UN lavishes rare praise on Sierra Leone

By EDITH M. LEDERER - Associated Press

FILE - In this Oct. 19, 2011, file photo, a woman holds her sick child while he receives treatment for cholera at a Doctors Without Borders, MSF, cholera clinic in Port-au-Prince, Haiti. Top U.N. envoy Sandra Honore said this Monday March 24, 2014, that Haiti's cholera outbreak is still the worst in the world. Health officials in Haiti say the epidemic has killed more than 8,000 people. (AP Photo/Ramon Espinosa, File)

UN: Haiti has more cholera than any other nation

By PETER JAMES SPIELMANN - Associated Press

UN: Iran complying with interim nuclear deal

Associated Press

Ukrainian air force officers walk with their bags at the Belbek airbase, outside Sevastopol, Crimea, on Thursday, March 20, 2014. With thousands of Ukrainian soldiers and sailors trapped on military bases, surrounded by heavily armed Russian forces and pro-Russia militia, the Kiev government said it was drawing up plans to evacuate its outnumbered troops from Crimea back to the mainland and would seek U.N. support to turn the peninsula into a demilitarized zone. (AP Photo/Ivan Sekretarev)

Pro-Russian crowds seize 3 Ukrainian warships

By JIM HEINTZ and DAVID RISING - Associated Press

** FILE ** President Barack Obama pauses while speaking about Ukraine, Monday, March 17, 2014, in the James Brady Press Briefing Room at the White House in Washington. The president imposed sanctions against Russian officials, including advisers to President Vladimir Putin, for their support of Crimea's vote to secede from Ukraine. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh)

Russian-speaking troops take over 2 naval bases

By Dave Boyer - The Washington Times

UN: Thousands killed and abused in South Sudan

By EDITH M. LEDERER - Associated Press

LETTER TO THE EDITOR: Crimea incursion evidence of U.N. impotence

By THE WASHINGTON TIMES

Canadian veteran soldier Gary Best who has served with the United Nations Peacekeeping force on war-divided Cyprus stands in front of an abandoned passenger aircraft, at the derelict Nicosia airport located inside the UN-controlled buffer zone on the capital's outskirts on Tuesday, March 18, 2014. A gutted Cyprus Airways Trident passenger jet a stone’s throw away from the terminal serves a reminder of the fierce battles that had raged there in July, 1974. Advancing Turkish forces had tried to seize the strategically important airport on the capital’s western outskirts, hours in to their invasion of Cyprus that was triggered by a coup aimed at uniting the island with Greece. Canadian soldiers then serving with the United Nations Peacekeeping force in Cyprus _ or UNFICYP _ helped repel the advance. Since then, it’s been the force’s headquarters midway through a 180 kilometer (112 mile) buffer zone that splits this ethnically divided island into a breakaway Turkish Cypriot north and a internationally recognized, Greek Cypriot south. (AP Photo/Petros Karadjias)

Peacekeeping force on idyllic Cyprus hits 50 years

By MENELAOS HADJICOSTIS - Associated Press

Russia's U.N. Ambassador Vitaly Churkin listens during a U.N. Security Council meeting on the Ukraine crisis, Saturday, March 15, 2014, at United Nations headquarters. (AP Photo/John Minchillo)

Russia vetoes U.N. resolution on Crimea’s future

Associated Press

In this photo provided by the United Nations, religious leaders from the Central African Republic briefly address journalists while being joined by United Nations Secretary General Ban Ki-moon, right, at United Nations Headquarters, Thursday, March 13, 2014. From left are religous leaders: Imam Omar Kobine Layama, Reverend Nicolas Guérékoyamé Gbangou and Archbishop Dieudonné Nzapalainga. U.N. Secretary General Ban Ki-moon is on the right. (AP Photo/United Nations Eskinder Debebe)

CAR religious leaders plead for UN peacekeepers

By CARA ANNA - Associated Press

In this Tuesday, March 11, 2014 photo, Mervat, 31, speaks during an interview with The Associated Press as she holds her 9-month-old daughter Shurouk inside their tent camp for Syrian refugees camp in Kab Elias, in Lebanon's Bekaa Valley. Trapped in her northern Syrian village by fighting, Mervat watched her newborn baby progressively shrink. Her daughter’s dark eyes seemed to grow bigger as her face grew more skeletal. Finally, Mervat escaped to neighboring Lebanon, and a nurse told her the girl was starving. Such stark malnutrition was rare in Syria in the past, but as the country’s conflict enters its fourth year, international aid workers fear malnutrition is rising among children in Syria and among refugees amid the collapse in the health care system. (AP Photo/Bilal Hussein)

Malnutrition grows among Syrian refugee children

By DIAA HADID - Associated Press

UN: 100,000 have fled Darfur fighting in 6 weeks

By EDITH M. LEDERER - Associated Press

Illustration by Greg Groesch/The Washington Times

NAMI: Long-standing Cyprus dispute nears possible resolution

By Ozdil Nami

Illustration by Linas Garsys/The Washington Times

MAY: An alternative to punishing Putin over Ukraine

By Clifford D. May

Haitians sue UN over cholera epidemic

By EDITH M. LEDERER - Associated Press

LETTER TO THE EDITOR: Stop wasting money on United Nations

By THE WASHINGTON TIMES