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UN: Agency didn’t violate North Korea sanctions

By ASSOCIATED PRESS - Associated Press

Supporters of a Insaf Student Federation burn an effigy of U.S. President Barack Obama and a representation of a U.S. flag demonstration in Karachi, Pakistan, on Saturday, Sept. 15, 2012, as part of widespread anger across the Muslim world about a film ridiculing Islam's Prophet Muhammad. (AP Photo/Fareed Khan)

EDITORIAL: Mr. Obama, stop praising Islam

By THE WASHINGTON TIMES - The Washington Times

Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad speaks at a high level meeting at United Nations headquarters on Sept. 24, 2012. Ahmadinejad has dismissed threats of military action against Iran's nuclear program, asserting that its enrichment project is for peaceful purposes and disputing that the country is worried about Israel. (Associated Press)

Iranian President Ahmadinejad dismisses threats on nuke program

By John Daniszewski - Associated Press

** FILE ** President Obama addresses the U.N. General Assembly on Wednesday, Sept. 21, 2011. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais)

Obama, in election mode, tightens his U.N. diplomacy

By Ben Feller - Associated Press

Embassy Row: Content in Morocco

By James Morrison - The Washington Times

Nobel Peace Prize laureate Elie Wiesel (Associated Press)

Israel-backed event highlights Arab-Jewish refugees

By Stewart Stogel - Special to The Washington Times

** FILE ** President Obama addresses the U.N. General Assembly at the United Nations headquarters on Wednesday, Sept. 21, 2011. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais)

Events in Muslim world bear on Obama’s speech at United Nations

By Dave Boyer - The Washington Times

**FILE** Former President Bill Clinton (Associated Press)

New Libyan leader to attend Clinton-run N.Y. meeting

By Verena Dobnik - Associated Press

Lakhdar Brahimi (left), the U.N.-Arab League envoy to Syria, speaks in Mafraq, Jordan, on Tuesday as Andrew Harper, the UNHCR representative to Jordan, listens during a visit to the Zaatari refugee camp for Syrians who fled the civil war. (Associated Press)

Syrian refugees protest U.N. envoy

By Dale Gavlak - Associated Press

UN health agency says Ebola toll at 31 in Congo

By JOHN HEILPRIN - Associated Press

Director General of the International Atomic Energy Agency, IAEA, Yukiya Amano of Japan addresses the media during a news conference after a meeting of the IAEA board of governors at the International Center, in Vienna, Austria, Monday, Sept. 10, 2012. (AP Photo/Ronald Zak)

U.S. and Russia bridge differences on Iran at nuclear meeting

By George Jahn - Associated Press

Marco Rubio

EDITORIAL: Dangers of U.N. disabilities treaty

By THE WASHINGTON TIMES - The Washington Times

Jolie visits Jordan camp for Syrian refugees

By ASSOCIATED PRESS - Associated Press

Angelina Jolie (Associated Press)

Angelina Jolie: Actress goes to Jordan to visit Syrian refugees

Associated Press

Angelina Jolie in Jordan to visit Syrian refugees

By ASSOCIATED PRESS - Associated Press

John Bolton

DECKER: 5 Questions with John Bolton

By Brett M. Decker - The Washington Times

** FILE ** In this Thursday, Sept. 22, 2011, file photo, Iran's President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad addresses the 66th session of the United Nations General Assembly. (AP Photo/Richard Drew, File)

Nuke talk questions await Iranian president at U.N.

By Brian Murphy - Associated Press

Amjad Al-Saleh, a Syrian child suffering from food poisoning, is comforted by his mother as they take refuge at the Bab Al-Salameh border crossing near Azaz, Syria, on Wednesday, Sept. 5, 2012, in hopes of entering a refugee camp in Turkey. The Al-Saleh family left their home in Marea, Syria, 11 days before when government forces shelled their house. (AP Photo/Muhammed Muheisen)

U.S. provides more aid for Syrian refugees

By Guy Taylor - The Washington Times

Ghassan Khalil, 30, holds his son Mahmoud, 2, who has a fever, Monday at the Bab Al-Salameh border crossing. He fled his home in Marea 12 days earlier after government forces shelled it and hopes to enter a Turkish refugee camp. (Associated Press)

August toll in Syria: 100,000 lose homes, 5,000 killed

By Bassem Mroue and John Heilprin - Associated Press

Ghassan Khalil, 30, who fled his home in Marea, Syria, 12 days before because of government shelling of his house, holds his sleeping son Mahmoud, 2, who suffers with a fever, as they take refuge at the Bab Al-Salameh border crossing near Azaz, Syria, on Monday, Sept. 3, 2012, in hopes of entering a refugee camp in Turkey. (AP Photo/Muhammed Muheisen)

U.N.: 100,000 refugees fled Syria in August

By John Heilprin - Associated Press