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Secretary of State Antony Blinken speaks about the roll-out of the International Religious Freedom Report at the State Department in Washington, Monday, May 15, 2023. Blinken is planning to travel to China next week as the Biden administration pushes to improve ties that hit a new low in February after a Chinese surveillance balloon was shot down over U.S. airspace. (Jonathan Ernst/Pool Photo via AP, File)

U.S. aims to rejoin U.N. scientific and educational organization to push back on China

By Matthew Lee - Associated Press

The Eiffel Tower, country flags and the Dome are seen from the garden of the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organisation (UNESCO) headquarters building during the 39th session of the General Conference at the UNESCO headquarters in Paris. The United States is ready to rejoin the U.N. cultural and scientific agency UNESCO – and pay more than $600 million in back dues -- after a decade-long dispute sparked by the organization's move to include Palestine as a member. (AP Photo/Francois Mori) **FILE**

U.S. decides to rejoin UNESCO and pay back dues, to counter Chinese influence

By Angela Charlton - Associated Press

Illustration on recycling aluminum and plastic by Alexander Hunter/The Washington Times

Can U.N. solve a pollution problem?

By Richard Berman

A Lebanese soldier points his rocket-propelled-grenade toward an Israeli Merkava tank in the disputed Kfar Chouba hills along the border, south Lebanon, Friday, June 9, 2023. Israeli soldiers fired tear gas to disperse scores of protesters who pelted the troops with stones along the border with Lebanon Friday, leaving some Lebanese demonstrators and troops suffering breathing problems. (AP Photo/Mohammad Zaatari)

Israeli troops fire tear gas to disperse protesters along Lebanon border

By Ahmad Mantash - Associated Press

Family photographs of some of those who died hang on display in an exhibition at the Kigali Genocide Memorial Center in the capital Kigali, Rwanda, Friday, April 5, 2019. United Nations judges have on Wednesday, June 7, 2023, declared Felicien Kabuga, an elderly Rwandan genocide suspect, unfit to continue to stand trial because he has dementia and will establish a procedure to continue to hear evidence without the possibility of convicting him. (AP Photo/Ben Curtis, File)

U.N. judges declare 88-year-old Rwandan genocide suspect unfit to stand trial because of dementia

By Mike Corder - Associated Press

Philippe Lazzarini, under-secretary-general of the United Nations and commissioner-general of the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East (UNRWA), speaks during a news conference at their compound following a cease-fire reached after an 11-day war between Gaza's Hamas rulers and Israel, May 23, 2021, in Gaza City. (AP Photo/John Minchillo, File)

U.N. agency for Palestinian refugees raises $107 million of $300 million needed to help millions

By Edith M. Lederer - Associated Press

A TV screen shows an image of North Korea's rocket launch during a news program at the Seoul Railway Station in Seoul, South Korea, on June 1, 2023. The United States and its allies clashed with Russia and China on Friday, June, 2, over North Korea’s failed launch of a military spy satellite this week in violation of multiple U.N. Security Council resolutions, which Moscow and Beijing refused to condemn.(AP Photo/Ahn Young-joon)

U.S., allies clash with Russia, China over North Korea’s failed military spy satellite launch

By Edith M. Lederer - Associated Press

Former U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon speaks during a news conference in Seoul, South Korea, Wednesday, May 31, 2023. Ban said Wednesday that he was communicating with authorities in military-run Myanmar as well as members of the armed resistance following a surprise visit to the country last month, and called for more diplomatic pressure on the ruling generals to end the violence. (AP Photo/Kim Tong-hyung)

Ex-UN head Ban calls for more diplomatic pressure on Myanmar’s military leaders

By Kim Tong-Hyung - Associated Press

Jovica Stanisic, facing camera, appears in court for his retrial at the United Nations Mechanism for International Criminal Tribunals in The Hague, on June 13, 2017. The appeals decision on Wednesday, May 31, 2023, by the International Residual Mechanism for Criminal Tribunals in the retrial of Jovica Stanisic and Franko Simatovic brings to an end the longest-running war crimes prosecution dating back to the Balkan wars of the early 1990s. (Michael Kooren/Pool Photo via AP, File)

U.N. appeals court increases sentences for 2 Serbs convicted of crimes in Balkan wars

By Mike Corder - Associated Press

Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva speaks during a news conference after attending the Group of Seven nations' summit in Hiroshima, western Japan, Monday, May 22, 2023. (AP Photo/Louise Delmotte)

Brazilian president says U.N. will hold climate conference in Brazil in 2025

Associated Press

A plume of smoke is emitted into the air from a power plant in Fairbanks, Alaska, on Feb. 16, 2022. (AP Photo/Mark Thiessen) **FILE**

Demonstrators target emergency meeting of U.N. climate change group

By Ramsey Touchberry - The Washington Times

Sudanese, who had been stranded in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, arrive at Port Sudan airport, Thursday, May 11, 2023. The conflict between the country's military and a rival paramilitary group has killed hundreds and displaced hundreds of thousands since it broke out in mid-April, creating a humanitarian crisis inside the country and at its borders. (AP Photo/Amr Nabil)

U.N.: Sudan conflict displaces over 1.3 million, including some 320K to neighboring countries

By Samy Magdy - Associated Press

Nunay Mohamed, 25, who fled the drought-stricken Lower Shabelle area, holds her one-year old malnourished child at a makeshift camp for the displaced on the outskirts of Mogadishu, Somalia on June 30, 2022. Humanitarian agencies are calling for the full funding of the U.N. Horn of Africa $7 billion appeal during a pledging conference scheduled for Wednesday, May 24, 2023, citing a growing crisis and need for urgent lifesaving intervention. (AP Photo/Farah Abdi Warsameh, File)

U.S. announces $524M for Horn of Africa drought, climate crisis while Germany, UK also make pledges

By Edith M. Lederer - Associated Press

Sudanese evacuees wait before boarding a Saudi military ship to Jeddah port, at Port Sudan, Sudan, late Tuesday, May 2, 2023. Sudan’s warring sides were beginning talks Saturday that aim to firm up a shaky cease-fire after three weeks of fierce fighting that has killed hundreds and pushed the African country to the brink of collapse, the U.S. and Saudi Arabia said. (AP Photo/Amr Nabil) **FILE**

U.N. urges Sudan’s warring parties to honor 7-day cease-fire starting Monday night

By Edith M. Lederer - Associated Press

In this Saturday, Nov. 15, 2014, file photo, a supporter of Serbian ultranationalist leader Vojislav Seselj holds a picture of Russian President Vladimir Putin during a protest In Belgrade, Serbia. Vladimir Putin has accused the U.S. and the West of destabilizing the Balkans with NATO expansion policies as Serbia prepares a hero's welcome for the Russian president. (AP Photo/Darko Vojinovic, File)

Putin seeks to foment second Balkan war to distract the West, Bosnian diplomat warns

By Guy Taylor - The Washington Times

In this grab taken from video released by Prigozhin Press Service on Saturday, May 20, 2023, Yevgeny Prigozhin's Wagner Group military company members wave a Russian national and Wagner flag atop a damaged building in Bakhmut, Ukraine. The head of the Russian private army Wagner claims his forces have taken control of the city of Bakhmut after the longest and most grinding battle of the Russia-Ukraine war, but Ukrainian defense officials have denied it. In a video posted on Telegram, Prigozhin said the city came under complete Russian control at about midday Saturday. (Prigozhin Press Service via AP)

African leaders to broach thorny issue of paying Russia for fertilizers in Kyiv and Moscow talks

By Gerald Imray - Associated Press

Workers load grain at a grain port in Izmail, Ukraine, on April 26, 2023. The United Nations is racing to extend a deal that has allowed for shipments of Ukrainian grain through the Black Sea to parts of the world struggling with hunger, helping ease a global food crisis exacerbated by the war that Russia launched more than a year ago. (AP Photo/Andrew Kravchenko, File)

Russia’s threat to exit Ukraine grain deal adds risk to global food security

By Jamey Keaten and Courtney Bonnell - Associated Press

A group of Arab refugees walks along a road from Jerusalem to Lebanon, carrying their belongings with them on Nov. 9, 1948. The group was driven from their homes by attacks in Galilee. For the first time, the United Nations will officially commemorate the flight of hundreds of thousands of Palestinians from what is now Israel on the 75th anniversary of their exodus, an action stemming from the U.N.’s partition of British-ruled Palestine into separate Jewish and Arab states. (AP Photo/Jim Pringle) **FILE**

U.N. to commemorate Palestinians’ 1948 flight from Israel for the first time

By Edith M. Lederer - Associated Press

Deputy Homeland Security Adviser Amy Pope listens as President Barack Obama speaks in the Oval Office at the White House in Washington, May 20, 2016. International Organization for Migration chief Antonio Vitorino of Portugal faces what is poised to be a tight race against his Biden administration-backed American deputy, Amy Pope, as the Geneva-based organization chooses a new director-general on Monday, May 15, 2023. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik, File)

Election at UN migration agency pits its European chief against his American deputy

By Jamey Keaten - Associated Press

Sudanese evacuees wait under a pane at Port Sudan airport, Thursday, May 11, 2023. The conflict between the country's military and a rival paramilitary group has killed hundreds and displaced hundreds of thousands since it broke out in mid-April, creating a humanitarian crisis inside the country and at its borders. (AP Photo/Amr Nabil)

U.N. envoy: Humanitarian deal between warring sides is a first step toward a cease-fire in Sudan

Associated Press