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A woman walks by a UN sign at the UN buffer zone inside Pyla village, outskirt of coastal city of Larnaca, Cyprus, Thursday, Jan. 8, 2009. Three United Nations soldiers had to be treated for minor injuries after angry Turkish Cypriots punched and kicked a group of peacekeepers who obstructed crews working on a road that would encroach on a U.N.-controlled buffer zone in ethnically divided Cyprus. The U.N. said Friday, Aug. 18, 2023, the assault happened as peacekeepers stood in the way of work crews building a road to connect the village of Arsos in the breakaway Turkish Cypriot north with the mixed Greek Cypriot-Turkish Cypriot village of Pyla. (AP Photo/Petros Karadjias, File)

U.N. calls unauthorized construction by Turkish Cypriots a violation of the status quo on Cyprus

Associated Press

A woman walks by a UN sign at the UN buffer zone inside Pyla village, outskirt of coastal city of Larnaca, Cyprus, Thursday, Jan. 8, 2009. Three United Nations soldiers had to be treated for minor injuries after angry Turkish Cypriots punched and kicked a group of peacekeepers who obstructed crews working on a road that would encroach on a U.N.-controlled buffer zone in ethnically divided Cyprus. The U.N. said Friday, Aug. 18, 2023, the assault happened as peacekeepers stood in the way of work crews building a road to connect the village of Arsos in the breakaway Turkish Cypriot north with the mixed Greek Cypriot-Turkish Cypriot village of Pyla. (AP Photo/Petros Karadjias, File)

Turkey says U.N. lost neutrality after world body condemns Cyprus roadwork, assault on peacekeepers

Associated Press

Unidentified people inspect the rubble of the al-Canal Hotel which houses the United Nations headquarters, after an explosion Tuesday, Aug. 19, 2003, in Baghdad, Iraq. Iraqi and United Nations officials on Saturday marked the 20th anniversary of a deadly attack on the U.N. headquarters in Baghdad. (AP Photo/Wally Santana, File)

Officials commemorate 20th anniversary of deadly attack on U.N. headquarters in Iraq

By Qassim Abdul-Zahra - Associated Press

A woman walks by a UN sign at the UN buffer zone inside Pyla village, outskirt of coastal city of Larnaca, Cyprus, Thursday, Jan. 8, 2009. Three United Nations soldiers had to be treated for minor injuries after angry Turkish Cypriots punched and kicked a group of peacekeepers who obstructed crews working on a road that would encroach on a U.N.-controlled buffer zone in ethnically divided Cyprus. The U.N. said Friday, Aug. 18, 2023, the assault happened as peacekeepers stood in the way of work crews building a road to connect the village of Arsos in the breakaway Turkish Cypriot north with the mixed Greek Cypriot-Turkish Cypriot village of Pyla. (AP Photo/Petros Karadjias, File)

Turkish Cypriots attack U.N. peacekeepers obstructing road work inside divided Cyprus’ buffer zone

By Menelaos Hadjicostis - Associated Press

FILE - Women chant slogans protesting violence against women and demanding the release of all detainees before the U.N. rights office in Khartoum, Sudan, Feb. 2, 2022. Sudan's powerful paramilitary has been singled out by a leading rights group and 30 United Nations experts with accusations of rape and sexual violence against women in separate statements, as the country enters its fourth month of conflict. The New York-based Human Rights Watch said Thursday, AUg. 17, 2023, the Rapid Support Forces paramilitary apparently targeted women and girls in the western Darfur region of non-Arab ethnicity as well as activists recording human rights abuses during its fighting with the country's armed forces. (AP Photo/Marwan Ali, File)

Rights group and U.N. experts single out Sudanese paramilitary with accusations of sexual violence

By Jack Jeffery - Associated Press

Volker Turk, United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights, speaks via video call after Linda Thomas-Greenfield, United States Ambassador to the United Nations, sitting president of the United Nations Security Council, gavels in a meeting of the council to discuss the situation in the Democratic People's Republic of Korea, Thursday, Aug. 17, 2023, at United Nations headquarters. (AP Photo/John Minchillo)

U.N.: North Korea is increasing repression as people are reportedly starving in parts of the country

By Edith M. Lederer - Associated Press

United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres addresses the assembly during the opening session of a three-day U.N. Food and Agriculture Agency's summit on food systems in Rome, July 24, 2023. The U.N. chief urged the international community on Tuesday, Aug. 15, to deploy a multinational force comprising “police special forces and military support units” to Haiti to combat gangs with sophisticated weapons and restore security to the impoverished Caribbean nation. (AP Photo/Andrew Medichini, File)

U.N. chief urges deployment of police special forces and military support to combat gangs in Haiti

By Edith M. Lederer - Associated Press

Sudanese Ambassador to the United Nations Al-Harith Idriss Al-Harith Mohamed, third from right bottom, listens as Karim Khan, third from right top, Prosecutor of International Criminal Court, addresses a Security Council meeting on the situation in Sudan, Thursday, July 13, 2023, at United Nations headquarters. Twenty United Nations and other international organizations on Tuesday, Aug. 15, 2023, called for peace, access to humanitarian support and respect for human rights in Sudan at the four-month mark of a war that has led to food shortages, death and injury, and sexual violence, among other troubles. (AP Photo/Mary Altaffer, File)

The U.N. and its partners ramp up their appeal for peace and aid at the 4-month mark of Sudan’s war

By Jamey Keaten and Jack Jeffery - Associated Press

FILE - The 'Safer' tanker is seen on Monday, June 12, 2023, off the coast of Yemen. A senior United Nations official says a salvage team is set to begin siphoning oil out of the decaying tanker moored off the coast of Yemen. (AP Photo/Osamah Abdulrahman, File)

More than 1 million barrels of oil removed from deteriorating tanker moored off Yemen, U.N. says

By Edith M. Lederer and Jack Jeffery - Associated Press

FILE - Delegations gather for a United Nations Security Council meeting on nuclear non-proliferation regarding the Democratic People's Republic of Korea, March 23, 2023, at United Nations headquarters. The U.N. Security Council will hold its first open meeting on North Korea’s dire human rights situation since 2017 on Thursday, Aug. 17, 2023, the United States announced. (AP Photo/John Minchillo, File)

U.N. Security Council to hold first open meeting on North Korea human rights situation since 2017

By Edith M. Lederer - Associated Press

Police stand near the gutted remains of cars, at the Eritrean cultural festival "Eritrea Scandinavia" in Stockholm Thursday, Aug. 3, 2023. A violent clash at an Eritrea-themed culture festival in Sweden has caused a chaos as about a thousand anti-Eritrean government protesters stormed the outdoor festival venue throwing stones, setting fire on booths and tearing down tents. (Magnus Lejhall/TT News Agency via AP)

Eritrea’s repressive government criticizes exiles who attack overseas festivals as ‘asylum scum’

By Cara Anna - Associated Press

Supporters of Niger's ruling junta hold a Russian flag in Niamey, Niger, Sunday, Aug. 6, 2023. Nigeriens are bracing for a possible military intervention as time's run out for its new junta leaders to reinstate the country's ousted president. (AP Photo/Sam Mednick)

Niger’s military junta digs in with Cabinet appointments and rejects talks

By Sam Mednick - Associated Press

FILE - Rwandan refugee children plead with Zairean soldiers to allow them across a bridge separating Rwanda and Zaire, which is now the Democratic Republic of Congo, where their mothers had crossed moments earlier before the soldiers closed the border, Aug. 20, 1994. Appeals judges on Monday, Aug. 7, 2023 threw out a decision by a United Nations court to set up a procedure to hear evidence against an elderly Rwandan genocide suspect who was declared unfit to face trial. (AP Photo/Jean-Marc Bouju, file)

Rwanda genocide survivors criticize U.N. court’s call to permanently halt elderly suspect’s trial

By Ignatius Ssuuna - Associated Press

Trucks loaded with United Nations humanitarian aid for Syria following a devastating earthquake are parked at Bab al-Hawa border crossing with Turkey, in Syria's Idlib province, on Feb. 10, 2023. On Tuesday, July 11, 2023, the U.N. Security Council failed to renew the Bab al-Hawa border crossing into opposition-held northwestern Syria from Turkey. (AP Photo/Ghaith Alsayed, File)

Syria greenlights U.N. to keep two crossings from Turkey to rebel-held northwest open for aid

By Edith M. Lederer - Associated Press

Rwandan refugees hold their hands up and ask for help from Belgian soldiers, who had come to a psychiatric hospital compound outside of Kigali on April 13, 1994. A frail 87-year-old Rwandan, Félicien Kabuga, accused of encouraging and bankrolling the 1994 genocide in his home country goes on trial Thursday, Sept. 29, 2022, at a United Nations tribunal, nearly three decades after the 100-day massacre that left 800,000 dead. (AP Photo/Karsten Thielker) **FILE**

U.N. appeal judges toss plan to set up procedure to hear evidence against Rwandan genocide suspect

By Mike Corder - Associated Press

FILE - This satellite image made by the Japanese weather satellite Himawari-8 shows the eruption of the Hunga Tonga-Hunga Ha’apai undersea volcano at the Pacific nation of Tonga on Saturday, Jan. 15, 2022. The volcano shot millions of tons of water vapor high up into the atmosphere according to a study published Thursday, Sept. 22, 2022, in the journal Science. Researchers estimate the event raised the amount of water in the stratosphere - the second layer of the atmosphere, above the range where humans live and breathe - by around 5%. (Japan Meteorology Agency via AP)

Global boiling’ is hemispheric hype

By Editorial Board - The Washington Times

FILE - Police clash with a man during a protest by supporters of Kenya's opposition leader Raila Odinga over the high cost of living and alleged stolen presidential vote, in Nairobi, on March 20, 2023. The United States is praising Kenya's interest in leading a multinational force in Haiti. But weeks ago, the U.S. openly warned Kenyan police officers against violent abuses. Now 1,000 of those police officers might head to Haiti to take on gang warfare. (AP Photo/Brian Inganga, File)

Haitians express skepticism over Kenya’s offer to U.N. to send police to confront gangs

By Evens Sanon and Megan Janetsky - Associated Press

A sign hangs on the facade of the headquarters of Johnny & Associates talent agency founded by Johnny Kitagawa in Tokyo, on July 10, 2019. A growing number of people are alleging sexual abuse by Kitagawa, who ruled over Japanese entertainment for decades, founding and heading his talent agency, known as Johnny’s, reputed for being behind a string of boy-bands. (AP Photo/Jae C. Hong, File)

U.N. group says people abused by late Japanese boy band producer deserve apologies and compensation

By Yuri Kageyama - Associated Press

U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken holds seat as president of the United Nations Security Council during meeting on famine and conflict-induced global food insecurity, Thursday, Aug. 3, 2023, at U.N. headquarters. (AP Photo/Bebeto Matthews)

U.S. challenges world to tell Russia to stop using Ukrainian grain as ‘blackmail’

By Edith M. Lederer - Associated Press

FILE- A United Nations vehicle is seen on the MINUSMA Main Operations Base in Bamako, Mali, June 23, 2018. The pending pullout of U.N. peacekeepers from Mali is creating worries about what the withdrawal will mean for thousands of citizens who built livelihoods at and around the mission's bases.(Sean Kilpatrick/The Canadian Press via AP-File)

Malians who thrived with arrival of U.N. peacekeeping mission fear economic fallout from departure

By Zane Irwin and Baba Ahmed - Associated Press