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Russian President Vladimir Putin, right, and Chinese President Xi Jinping arrive to attend a signing ceremony following their talks at The Grand Kremlin Palace, in Moscow, Russia, Tuesday, March 21, 2023. (Grigory Sysoyev, Sputnik, Kremlin Pool Photo via AP)

As Biden preps for New York, Xi, Putin and others skipping U.N. General Assembly

By Guy Taylor - The Washington Times

Former U.S. diplomat Bill Richardson speaks to reporters during a news conference in New York, Tuesday, Nov. 16, 2021. Friends and admirers of former Gov. Richardson are mourning the hard-charging politician whose career spanned the globe. Richardson’s casket was scheduled to lie in state on Wednesday, Sept. 13, 2023, in the rotunda of the New Mexico Statehouse. (AP Photo/Seth Wenig, File)

Bill Richardson is mourned in New Mexico after globe-trotting career, lies in state at Capitol

By Morgan Lee - Associated Press

Wall Street Journal reporter Evan Gershkovich stands in a glass cage in a courtroom in Moscow, Russia, on April 18, 2023. Gershkovich, a U.S. citizen, was arrested in March on espionage charges, which he has denied, as have his employer and the U.S. government. (AP Photo/Alexander Zemlianichenko, File)

Lawyers for jailed reporter Evan Gershkovich ask UN to urgently declare he was arbitrarily detained

By Edith M. Lederer - Associated Press

Russian President Vladimir Putin and North Korea's leader Kim Jong Un examine a launch pad of Soyuz rockets during their meeting at the Vostochny cosmodrome outside the city of Tsiolkovsky, about 200 kilometers (125 miles) from the city of Blagoveshchensk in the far eastern Amur region, Russia, on Wednesday, Sept. 13, 2023. (Mikhail Metzel, Sputnik, Kremlin Pool Photo via AP)

Live updates: Analysts question whether Russia would share secret weapons tech with North Korea

By The Associated Press - Associated Press

Associated Press journalist Mstyslav Chernov delivers a video message from the field in Ukraine before the screening of the award-winning documentary "20 Days in Mariupol" at the United Nations headquarters, Monday, Sept. 11, 2023. (AP Photo/Eduardo Munoz Alvarez)

Over 100 VIPs attend U.N. screening of documentary on Russia’s siege of Ukrainian city of Mariupol

By Edith M. Lederer - Associated Press

Taliban mark the second anniversary of their takeover of the country in Kabul, Afghanistan, Tuesday, Aug. 15, 2023. AP Photo/Siddiqullah Alizai)

The Taliban have waged a systematic assault on freedom in Afghanistan, says U.N. human rights chief

Associated Press

FILE - An explosion erupts from an apartment building after a Russian army tank fired on it in Mariupol, Ukraine, March 11, 2022. The United States and Britain have invited ambassadors, journalists and others to a U.N. screening of the award-winning documentary "20 Days in Mariupol" which follows a trio of Associated Press journalists during Russia's siege of the Ukrainian port city in the early days of the war. The Monday evening screening comes a week before world leaders arrive for their annual meeting at the U.N. General Assembly, where the 18-month war in Ukraine is expected to be in the spotlight. (AP Photo/Evgeniy Maloletka)

U.S. and U.K. holding U.N. screening of documentary on Russia’s siege of Ukrainian city of Mariupol

By Edith M. Lederer - Associated Press

An armed Afghan policemen destroys an opium poppy field in Noorgal, Kunar province, east of Kabul, Afghanistan on April 13, 2013. Afghanistan is the world’s fastest-growing maker of methamphetamine, a report from the United Nations drug agency said Sunday, Sept. 10, 2023. The country is also a major opium producer and heroin source, even though the Taliban declared a war on narcotics after they returned to power in August 2021. (AP Photo/Rahmat Gul, File)

Afghanistan is the fastest-growing maker of methamphetamine, UN drug agency says

By Riazat Butt - Associated Press

In this image released by Morocco's Foreign Ministry, Morocco Foreign Minister Nasser Bourita, right, and Morocco's Permanent Representative to the United Nations Omar Hilale, left, welcome UN Secretary General's Personal Envoy for Western Sahara, Staffan de Mistura, as he visits the region, in Rabat, Morocco, Friday, Sept. 8, 2023. (AP Photo via Morocco Foreign Ministry)

A UN envoy has made his first visit to Western Sahara. He pledged to advance the political process

Associated Press

In this photo provided by the North Korean government, a huge North Korean flag is displayed during a celebration of the nation's 73rd anniversary at Kim Il Sung Square in Pyongyang, North Korea on Sept. 9, 2021. The content of this image is as provided and cannot be independently verified. Korean language watermark on image as provided by source reads: "KCNA" which is the abbreviation for Korean Central News Agency. (Korean Central News Agency/Korea News Service via AP, File)

China sending delegation to North Korea to celebrate its founding as nations foster their ties

By Kim Tong-Hyung - Associated Press

Women queue to receive cash at a money distribution site organized by the World Food Program in Kabul, Afghanistan, on Nov. 20, 2021. The U.N. food agency said Tuesday, Sept. 5, 2023, that it must drop another 2 million hungry people from food assistance in Afghanistan this month due to a massive funding shortfall. The action means that 10 million people will be cut off from the agency's support this year in the country, the World Food Program said in a statement. (AP Photo/Petros Giannakouris)

U.N. releases $125 million for 14 underfunded humanitarian crises around the world

Associated Press

FILE - Russian President Vladimir Putin, right, and North Korea's leader Kim Jong Un shake hands during their meeting in Vladivostok, Russia on April 25, 2019. Kim may travel to Russia for a summit with Putin, a U.S. official said, in a trip would underscore deepening cooperation as the two leaders are locked in separate confrontations with the U.S. (AP Photo/Alexander Zemlianichenko, Pool, File)

Kim Jong-Un and Putin may meet. What do North Korea and Russia need from each other?

By Hyung-Jin Kim and Kim Tong-hyung - Associated Press

Residents flee fighting between M23 rebels and Congolese forces near Kibumba, some 20 kms ( 12 miles) North of Goma, Democratic Republic of Congo, on Oct. 29, 2022. A senior UN official said Tuesday, Sept. 5, 2023, the humanitarian situation in conflict-wracked eastern Congo has deteriorated alarmingly in the past 18 months with 8 million people in urgent need of assistance and women and girls subjected to sexual violence on a massive scale -- just in three provinces. (AP Photo/Moses Sawasawa, File)

An alarming humanitarian crisis and massive sexual violence wrack eastern Congo, U.N. official says

By Edith M. Lederer - Associated Press

Russian President Vladimir Putin, right, and Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan talk to each other during their meeting in the Bocharov Ruchei residence in the Black Sea resort of Sochi, Russia, Wednesday, Sept. 29, 2021. Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan will meet with Vladimir Putin on Monday, Sept. 4, 2023, to persuade the Russian leader to rejoin the Black Sea grain deal that Moscow broke off from in July. (Vladimir Smirnov, Sputnik, Kremlin Pool Photo via AP, File)

Russia’s Putin says there will be no new grain deal until the West meets his demands

Associated Press

Former U.S. diplomat Bill Richardson speaks to reporters during a news conference in New York, Tuesday, Nov. 16, 2021. Richardson, a two-term Democratic governor of New Mexico who later was the U.S. ambassador to the United Nations and dedicated his post-political career to working to free Americans detained overseas, has died, Saturday, Sept. 2, 2023. (AP Photo/Seth Wenig, File)

Bill Richardson, a former governor and U.N. ambassador who worked to free detained Americans, dies

By Eric Tucker - Associated Press

An unidentified armed militia fighter walks down a path as villagers flee with their belongings in the other direction, near the village of Chenna Teklehaymanot, in the Amhara region of northern Ethiopia Thursday, Sept. 9, 2021. Ethiopia's government and residents say the military has recaptured several areas in the embattled Amhara region from local militia fighters, while details of dozens of civilians killed have begun to emerge from the region amid an internet shutdown. The military has reclaimed control of six towns including the regional capital of Bahir Dar and the region's second-largest town, Gondar, according to a government statement on Wednesday, Aug. 9, 2023. It said curfew has been imposed in those areas and flights there are set to resume. (AP Photo, File)

The U.N. says at least 183 people have been killed in Ethiopia over Amhara region unrest since July

By Cara Anna - Associated Press

Former U.N. Ambassador Nikki Haley speaks as businessman Vivek Ramaswamy and Sen. Tim Scott, R-S.C., listen during a Republican presidential primary debate hosted by Fox News Channel, Wednesday, Aug. 23, 2023, in Milwaukee. (AP Photo/Morry Gash, File)

Can Haley and Scott woo the GOP’s White evangelical base away from Trump?

By Tiffany Stanley - Associated Press

The Rev. Martin Luther King Jr., head of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference, speaks to thousands during his "I Have a Dream" speech in front of the Lincoln Memorial for the March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom in Washington on Aug. 28, 1963. Actor-singer Sammy Davis Jr. is at bottom right. (AP Photo/File)

At March on Washington’s 60th anniversary, leaders seek energy of original movement for civil rights

By Aaron Morrison - Associated Press

Sahr John Yambasu, 29, from Sierra Leone, poses for a photograph in Niamey, Niger, Tuesday, Aug. 22, 2023. After three months of traipsing through the desert and watching people die at sea trying to reach Europe, Yambasu decided to return home. But when he reached Niger in June on his journey back, United Nations officials told him to wait until the packed migrant centers emptied before he could be repatriated. Then weeks later mutinous soldiers toppled Niger's president shuttering the borders and trapping him inside. (AP Photo/Sam Mednick)

Thousands of discouraged migrants are stranded in Niger because of border closures following coup

By Sam Mednick - Associated Press

Taliban fighters patrol on the road during a celebration marking the second anniversary of the withdrawal of U.S.-led troops from Afghanistan, in Kandahar, south of Kabul, Afghanistan, Tuesday, Aug. 15, 2023. More than 200 extrajudicial killings of former Afghan government officials and security forces have taken place since the Taliban took over the country two years ago, according to a U.N. report released Tuesday, Aug. 22. The most targeted groups have been former army, police and intelligence forces, according to the report from the United Nations Assistance Mission in Afghanistan. (AP Photo/Abdul Khaliq, file)

More than 200 former Afghan officials and security forces killed since Taliban takeover, U.N. says

By Rahim Faiez - Associated Press