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In this Monday, Feb. 10, 2014 photo released by Amnesty International, Deputy Mayor Saleh Dido walks with an armful of papers of Quranic texts in Mbaiki, Central African Republic. Even as thousands of Muslims fled the town, Dido vowed to carry on with his duties. On Friday, Feb. 28, 2014, witnesses said a mob armed with knives chased him and killed him. His fate shows how far the violence has gone in the Central African Republic, where hundreds of Muslims have been killed in just a few months, redefining who belongs here by their religion alone. (AP Photo/Amnesty International, Joanne Mariner)

UN starts Central African Republic investigation

By JOHN HEILPRIN - Associated Press

Wounded South Sudan rebels fear hospital

By ILYA GRIDNEFF - Associated Press

C. African Republic: UN force needed for survival

By PETER JAMES SPIELMANN - Associated Press

People watch TV reporting North Korea's missile test at Seoul Railway Station in Seoul, South Korea, Tuesday, March 4, 2014. South Korea says North Korea has fired seven suspected artillery shells into the seas following its recent series of Scud missile launches. (AP Photo/Ahn Young-joon)

U.S. asks U.N. to act against N. Korea for missile tests

By EDITH M. LEDERER - Associated Press

From left, French Foreign Minister Laurent Fabius, Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov, French President Francois Hollande, Italian Foreign Minister Federica Mogherini and U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry, talk together during a break of a meeting at the Elysee Palace in Paris, Wednesday, March 5, 2014. Top diplomats from the West and Russia trying to find an end to the crisis in Ukraine are gathering in Paris on Wednesday as tensions simmered over the Russian military takeover of the strategic Crimean Peninsula. (AP Photo/Alain Jocard, Pool)

Russia, West try to hammer out Ukraine diplomacy

By LARA JAKES and MARIA DANILOVA - Associated Press

Former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton (Associated Press)

Hillary Clinton blasted by human rights activists

By Alana Goodman - Washington Free Beacon

Victims of a mortar attack lie wounded at a hospital in Musayyib, about 40 miles (60 kilometers) south of Baghdad, Iraq, Friday, Feb. 21, 2014. A mortar attack struck a busy area in a mainly Shiite town south of Iraq's capital Thursday, killing and wounding scores of people, said Iraqi officials. (AP Photo/Karim Kadim)

U.N. says Iraq attacks killed 703 in February

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In this photo taken Wednesday, Feb. 26, 2014, rebels sit in the now-emptied hospital in Malakal, South Sudan. A week ago forces loyal to former vice president Riek Machar retook Malakal in a bloody assault that forced the government army to make what it labeled a tactical withdrawal, while Human Rights Watch said Thursday that both government and rebel forces are responsible for serious abuses that may amount to war crimes for atrocities committed in Malakal and Bentiu, another capital of an oil-producing state, despite a cease-fire signed in January. (AP Photo/Ilya Gridneff)

Scenes of death in South Sudan: ‘No humanity here’

By ILYA GRIDNEFF - Associated Press

Secretary of State John Kerry speaks about the annual State Department Human Rights report, Thursday, Feb. 27, 2014, at the State Department in Washington. The U.S. says a chemical weapons attack in Syria that the Obama administration says killed more than 1,000 people was the world's worst human rights violation of 2013. An annual State Department report released Thursday also highlights government crackdowns on peaceful protests in Ukraine and Russia's refusal to punish human-rights abusers. (AP Photo/Jose Luis Magana)

Pentagon: Syrian request for chemical weapons extension ‘unacceptable’

By Maggie Ybarra - The Washington Times

Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki gives a joint press conference with United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-Moon during Ki-moon's two day visit to Baghdad, Iraq, Jan. 13, 2014. The U.N. chief expressed deep concerns Monday over the deteriorating security situation in Iraq as an unprecedented standoff is underway between Iraqi troops and al-Qaida-linked militants in western Anbar province. Ki-moon made his comments during a joint a press conference with the Iraqi Prime Minister, Nouri al-Mailiki. (AP Photo/Ali Al-Saadi, Pool)

Iraq signs deal to buy arms from Iran as State Dept. sees ‘serious concern’

By Cheryl K. Chumley - The Washington Times

Florida groups criticize UN over cholera lawsuit

By JENNIFER KAY - Associated Press

Former child soldier wants Wyoming refugee office

By KYLE ROERINK - Associated Press

Somalis gather near the wreckage of one of the vehicles used for a car bomb, following a militant attack on the presidential palace in Mogadishu, Somalia Friday, Feb. 21, 2014. Nine al-Shabab militants wearing military fatigues and carrying guns and grenades died after attacking the presidential palace with two car bombs on Friday, in an assault the president called a &quot;media spectacular&quot; by a &quot;dying animal.&quot; President Hassan Sheikh Mohamud was unharmed, but two government officials were killed, the interior ministry said. (AP Photo/Farah Abdi Warsameh)

9 attackers dead: Somalia president palace attack

By ABDI GULED and JASON STRAZIUSO - Associated Press

UN aid workers deliver food to Damascus district

By BARBARA SURK - Associated Press

UN urges reinforcements for CAfrican Republic

By KRISTA LARSON and EDITH M. LEDERER - Associated Press

UN urges reinforcements for C. African Republic

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A Christian man carries a charred mannequin wearing a Muslim veil in front of looted Muslim stores, past a convoy of over 100 vehicles of Muslims fleeing Bangui, Central African Republic, Friday Feb. 14, 2014. A convoy of thousands of Muslims heading to Chad had to turn around as MISCA troops, the African force deployed in the Central African Republic, deemed the road out was not secure. (AP Photo/Jerome Delay)

Thousands of Muslims try to flee CAR capital

By JEROME DELAY and KRISTA LARSON - Associated Press

Cardinal Donald W. Wuerl says the Catholic Church, under Pope Francis, is focusing on how to "Live the Gospel," especially in a world of extreme inequality. (Andrew Harnik/The Washington Times)

Cardinal Donald Wuerl hits U.N. report on Catholic sex abuse scandal

By Meredith Somers - The Washington Times

Marabou Husein Aba Ali reads prayers at the mosque at PK12, the last checkpoint at the exit of the town, Tuesday Feb. 11, 2014, where he and 3500 other Muslims have sought refuge from sectarian violence, awaiting for transport from Bangui, Central African Republic, to neighboring Chad. (AP Photo/Jerome Delay)

Amnesty, UN: CAR Muslim exodus ‘ethnic cleansing’

By KRISTA LARSON - Associated Press

LETTER TO THE EDITOR: U.N. committee not pro-child

By THE WASHINGTON TIMES