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French President Francois Hollande listens as President Barack Obama speaks during their joint news conference in the East Room of the White House, Tuesday, Feb. 11, 2014, during a state visit. Lauding the "enduring alliance" between the United States and France, President Barack Obama on Tuesday welcomed President Francois Hollande to the White House for a lavish state visit. The highly anticipated trip is taking place amid swirling speculation on both sides of the Atlantic about problems in Hollande's personal life. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin)

Obama, Hollande hit Moscow over Syria

By Ben Wolfgang - The Washington Times

People gather to watch French soldiers search a house used as an armed cache in the Christian sector of PK12, the last checkpoint at the exit of the town, in Bangui, Central African Republic Tuesday Feb. 11, 2014. The commander of French troops in the Central African Republic General Francisco Soriano accused the Anti-Balaka Christian militias to be &quot;enemies of the peace&quot; and should be dealt with accordingly. (AP Photo/Jerome Delay)

UN chief warns of partition in C. African Republic

By EDITH M. LEDERER and JEROME DELAY - Associated Press

Pope Francis listens to his speech being translated in several languages, during his weekly general audience in St. Peter's Square at the Vatican, Wednesday, Feb. 5, 2014. A U.N. human rights committee denounced the Vatican on Wednesday for &#8220;systematically&#8221; adopting policies that allowed priests to rape and molest tens of thousands of children over decades, and urged it to open its files on the pedophiles and the bishops who concealed their crimes. (AP Photo/Alessandra Tarantino)

ORSI: The anti-Christian United Nations

By Michael P. Orsi

** FILE ** In this Nov. 27, 2013, file photo, the North Korean-flagged cargo ship Chong Chon Gang sits in Sherman Bay near Colon City, Panama. Panama Canal officials say on Saturday, Feb. 8, 2014, that the seized ship is free to leave because the owner has paid a fine. Three of the ship's operators still face charges, while 32 crew members are free to return to North Korea. The vessel was detained in July 2013 when a search revealed it was carrying weapons from Cuba. (AP Photo/Arnulfo Franco, File)

North Korea fined $693K for sneaking arms through Panama Canal

By Cheryl K. Chumley - The Washington Times

FILE - In this file photo taken Saturday, March 12, 2011, Iran's Deputy Foreign Minister Behrouz Kamalvandi speaks during a press conference in La Paz, Bolivia. Kamalvandi is on a two-day visit to Bolivia. As the IAEA team arrived in Tehran on Friday, Feb. 7, 2014, the state IRNA news agency cited Iranian atomic energy organization spokesman Kamalvandi as saying his country is ready to answer all questions raised by the U.N. agency. (AP Photo/Juan Karita, File)

Iran, UN focus on Iran’s alleged nuclear arms work

By GEORGE JAHN - Associated Press

Philomena Lee gives an interview at the end of a press conference in Rome, Thursday, Feb. 6, 2014, after her meeting with Pope Francis a day earlier and the Oscar-nominated film based on her story of trying to find a son taken from her 50 years earlier. One of the main criticisms of the Vatican in a U.N. report on sex abuse was the Holy See's failure to investigate the arbitrary placement of girls in church-run workhouses in Ireland, where their out-of-wedlock babies were taken from them and put up for adoption. (AP Photo/Andrew Medichini)

Inspiration for ‘Philomena’ doesn’t blame church

By NICOLE WINFIELD - Associated Press

Pope Francis listens to his speech being translated in several languages, during his weekly general audience in St. Peter's Square at the Vatican, Wednesday, Feb. 5, 2014. A U.N. human rights committee denounced the Vatican on Wednesday for &#8220;systematically&#8221; adopting policies that allowed priests to rape and molest tens of thousands of children over decades, and urged it to open its files on the pedophiles and the bishops who concealed their crimes. (AP Photo/Alessandra Tarantino)

PRUDEN: Theologians at the United Nations

By Wesley Pruden - The Washington Times

FILE - In this Wednesday, Aug. 28, 2013, file photo, a citizen journalism image provided by the United Media Office of Arbeen which has been authenticated based on its contents and other AP reporting, shows members of the United Nations investigation team take samples from sand near a part of a missile that is likely to be a chemical rocket, according to activists, in the Damascus countryside of Ain Terma, Syria. The Obama administration is offering to destroy some of Syria's deadliest chemical weapons in international waters aboard a nearly 700-foot (213-meter), U.S. government-owned ship, U.S. officials told The Associated Press on Wednesday, Nov. 27, 2013. (AP Photo/Local Committee of Arbeen, File)

U.N. tells Syria to hurry on chemical weapons disposal

By EDITH M. LEDERER - Associated Press

In this photo provided by the Vatican paper L' Osservatore Romano, Pope Francis meets ambassadors to the Holy See, at the Vatican, Monday, Jan. 13, 2014. Pope Francis on Monday criticized abortion as evidence of a "throwaway culture" that wastes people as well as food, saying such a mentality is a threat to world peace. Francis also urged better respect for migrants and denounced the persecution of Christians in Asia, Africa and the Middle East in his global survey of world crises delivered to diplomats accredited to the Holy See. (AP Photo/L'Osservatore Romano)

U.N. demands Vatican ‘immediately remove’ child abusers

By Cheryl K. Chumley - The Washington Times

MP Kirsten Sandberg, chairwoman of the U.N. human rights committee on the rights of the child, talks during a press conference at the United Nations headquarters in Geneva, Switzerland, Wednesday, Feb. 5, 2014. A U.N. human rights committee denounced the Vatican on Wednesday for adopting policies that allowed priests to rape and molest tens of thousands of children over decades, and urged it to open its files on the pedophiles and the churchmen who concealed their crimes. (AP Photo/Anja Niedringhaus)

Catholics outraged over U.N. report on sex abuse

By Meredith Somers - The Washington Times

FILE - In this file photo taken Friday, Oct. 26, 2012, displaced Syrian children gather barefoot in a refugee camp near Atma, Idlib province, Syria. Children in Syria have been tortured, maimed and sexually abused by President Bashar Assad's forces and recruited for combat by the rebels fighting to topple him, according to a new United Nations report, posted on the U.N. website late Tuesday, Feb. 4, 2014. (AP Photo/Manu Brabo, File)

UN: ‘Unspeakable suffering’ for Syria’s children

By BARBARA SURK - Associated Press

FILE - In this Dec. 18, 2013 file photo, then-Mayor Michael Bloomberg speaks in New York. Bloomberg has been chosen by Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon to be a U.N. envoy for cities and climate change, U.N. diplomats said Friday, Jan. 31, 2014 The billionaire businessman and philanthropist turned politician made combating climate change a major focus of his 12 years as mayor. He was also very outspoken on how cities should be run to cope with ever increasing populations. (AP Photo/Bebeto Matthews, File)

Ex-NY mayor Bloomberg named U.N. climate envoy

By Edith M. Lederer - Associated Press

Illustration by Alexander Hunter/The Washington Times

FIELDS: Anti-Semitism on International Holocaust Remembrance Day

By Suzanne Fields

Kofi Annan, former U.N. secretary general, right, reads a statement at the conclusion of his meeting with Iran's Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif in Tehran, Iran, Monday, Jan. 27, 2014, as Martti Ahtisaari, pormer president of Finland, left, listens. The former head of the United Nations urged Iran Monday to build on a historic deal reached with world powers in November and work toward a final settlement over its contested nuclear program. Annan, who is heading a group of ex-world leaders known as &quot;The Elders,&quot; made the comments after a meeting with Iran's Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif Monday. (AP Photo/Ebrahim Noroozi)

UN inspectors visit key Iran uranium mine

By ALI AKBAR DAREINI - Associated Press

US to press Sri Lanka again at UN rights council

By MATTHEW PENNINGTON - Associated Press

Congo: More than 20 killed in arms depot blasts

Associated Press

Critic takes Redskins’ name complaint to UN

Associated Press

Oneida Indian Nation representative Ray Halbritter speaks during a news conference, Wednesday, Oct. 30, 2013, in New York. Representatives of the Oneida have requested a meeting with all 32 NFL owners during Super Bowl week, hoping to persuade them to get the Washington franchise to drop the nickname Redskins. The Oneidas also asked for an amendment to league bylaws to prohibit franchises from naming a team with any term that is a racial epithet. Halbritter says the dictionary defines the word "redskins" precisely like that. (AP Photo/Louis Lanzano)

Redskins name critic takes case to United Nations

Associated Press

Nhail Deng Nhail, 2nd left, the head of South Sudan's negotiating team, and top negotiator for the rebel's side, Taban Deng Gai, right, a general in South Sudan's army before he defected, sign a cessation of hostilities agreement in front of mediator Ethiopian Foreign Minister Tedros Adhanom, center, in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia Thursday, Jan. 23, 2014. South Sudan's government and rebels fighting against it have signed Thursday a cessation of hostilities agreement in Addis Ababa that should at the least put a pause to five weeks of warfare that has claimed thousands of lives and uprooted a half million people since fighting began Dec. 15 between the government and supporters of former Vice President Riek Machar. (AP Photo/Elias Asmare)

S. Sudan rebels say gov’t violating new cease-fire

By ILYA GRIDNEFF - Associated Press

Report: Saudi gives $100M for UN counterterrorism

Associated Press