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Iranian President Hassan Rouhani gestures as speaks during a session of the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, Thursday, Jan. 23, 2014. Leaders gathered in the Swiss ski resort of Davos have made it a top priority to push to reshape the global economy and cut global warming by shifting to cleaner energy sources. (AP Photo/Michel Euler)

Iran’s heavyweight absence hangs over Syria talks

By Lee Keath and Zeina Karam - Associated Press

A child runs by a burning house as Anti-Balaka Christan youth loot the Muslim market in the PK13 district of Bangui, Central African Republic, Wednesday, Jan. 22, 2014. Hundreds of Anti-Balakas, helped by women and children, went on a rampage, burning and looting shops. Thirty civilian muslims, trapped inside their home, were later rescued by French forces assisted by Rwandan African Union peacekeepers. (AP Photo/Jerome Delay)

UN expert: C. African Republic risks genocide

By CARA ANNA - Associated Press

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Syria's Foreign Minister Walid al-Moallem leads his delegation during a plenary session in Montreux, Switzerland, Wednesday Jan. 22, 2014. U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry says there is no way that Syrian President Bashar Assad can be part of a transitional government that's being discussed at an international conference aimed at ending the country's brutal conflict. (AP Photo/Gary Cameron, Pool)

Syria peace talks open with bitter clash on fate of Bashar Assad

By Guy Taylor - The Washington Times

Illustration by Greg Groesch/The Washington Times

POBLETE: Halting UNESCO’s misguided path

By Yleem Poblete

Illustration by Greg Groesch/The Washington Times

NEWMAN: Confessions of a global-warmist wannabe

By Maurice Newman

The United Nations Security Council meets at U.N. headquarters, Monday, Jan. 20, 2014. Ban Ki-moon told the Security Council on Monday morning that he will have more to say on his invitation for Iran to join this week's peace talks on Syria later in the day.(AP Photo/Craig Ruttle)

U.N. withdraws Iran invitation to Syria talks

By Cara Anna - Associated Press

Iranian President Hassan Rouhani sits at the 27th International Islamic Unity Conference in Tehran, Iran, Friday, Jan. 17, 2014. (AP Photo/Vahid Salemi)

White House: Despite easing $6 billion in sanctions, Iran not ‘open for business’

By Guy Taylor - The Washington Times

AP News in Brief at 10:58 p.m. EST

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UN drone crashes at eastern Congo airport

By SALEH MWANAMILONGO - Associated Press

FILE - In this file photo taken Tuesday, Jan. 7, 2014, injured Israeli settlers are detained by Palestinian villagers in a building under construction near the West Bank village of Qusra, southeast of Nablus. The annual rate of Israeli settler attacks against Palestinians has almost quadrupled in eight years, U.N. figures show, buttressing claims that Israeli security forces have largely failed to stem the so-called &quot;price tag&quot; campaign in which thugs cut down trees, deface mosques and beat Palestinian farmers. (AP Photo/Nasser Ishtayeh, File)

UN says pace of Israeli settler attacks up 4-fold

By KARIN LAUB and MOHAMMED DARAGHMEH - Associated Press

**FILE** Vatican spokesman Rev. Federico Lombardi makes an announcement during a press conference at the Vatican, Friday, July 5, 2013. (AP Photo/Riccardo De Luca)

Vatican poised for fiery U.N. grilling on child sex abuse

By Cheryl K. Chumley - The Washington Times

U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry attends the opening session of the second International Humanitarian Pledging Conference for Syria at Bayan Palace, Kuwait City on Wednesday, Jan 15, 2014. Kuwait pledged $500 million and the United States promised $380 million to alleviate the suffering of Syrians affected by the country's civil war at the start of the fundraising conference that international aid officials hope will generate billions of dollars needed this year.(AP Photo/Gustavo Ferrari)

U.S. pledges $380M for Syria, in hopes Assad won’t take it

By Cheryl K. Chumley - The Washington Times

Andrew Young scheduled to keynote King day program

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FILE - In this Thursday, Jan. 2, 2014 file photo, displaced people arrive with what belongings they had time to gather by river barge from Bor, some of the thousands who fled the recent fighting between government and rebel forces in Bor by boat across the White Nile, in the town of Awerial, South Sudan. A military spokesman in South Sudan said Tuesday, Jan. 14, 2014 that 200 people fleeing warfare elsewhere in the country died after a boat that was carrying mostly women and children sank while crossing the Nile River in Upper Nile State. (AP Photo/Ben Curtis, File)

200 fleeing S. Sudan violence die after boat sinks

By ILYA GRIDNEFF and RODNEY MUHUMUZA - Associated Press

M23 rebels gather in the eastern Congo town of Sake, some 27 kms west of Goma, Thursday Nov. 29, 2012. Rebels, who last week seized one of the most important cities in eastern Congo and advanced beyond, said Thursday that they had pulled back several miles (kilometers ) to the town of Sake and were on track to leave the key city of Goma by Friday, in accordance with a deadline imposed by the international community.(AP Photo/Jerome Delay)

UN says Congo’s defeated M23 rebels active again

By EDITH M. LEDERER - Associated Press

In this Monday, Jan. 6, 2014 citizen journalism image provided by Aleppo Media Center, AMC, which has been authenticated based on its contents and other AP reporting, Syrians inspect the rubble of destroyed buildings following a Syrian government airstrike in Aleppo, Syria. Syrian rebel groups battled one another Monday for control of a provincial capital, part of a vicious round of score settling targeting an al-Qaida affiliate that gained stature fighting President Bashar Assad but alienated many by imposing strict Islamic law. (AP Photo/Aleppo Media Center AMC)

First batch of chemical weapons taken out of Syria

By Diaa Hadid and Mike Corder - Associated Press

In this Monday, Jan. 6, 2014 citizen journalism image provided by Aleppo Media Center, AMC, which has been authenticated based on its contents and other AP reporting, Syrians inspect the rubble of destroyed buildings following a Syrian government airstrike in Aleppo, Syria. Syrian rebel groups battled one another Monday for control of a provincial capital, part of a vicious round of score settling targeting an al-Qaida affiliate that gained stature fighting President Bashar Assad but alienated many by imposing strict Islamic law. (AP Photo/Aleppo Media Center AMC)

U.N. gives up on counting death toll in Syria

By Jessica Chasmar - The Washington Times