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A Ukrainian serviceman walks amid destroyed Russian tanks in Bucha, Ukraine, on the outskirts of Kyiv, Wednesday, April 6, 2022. (AP Photo/Felipe Dana) **FILE**

Ruins of ‘Russian Beast’: Bucha mayor seeks help to rebuild quiet Kyiv suburb

By Mike Glenn - The Washington Times

This undated photograph handed out by French military shows three Russian mercenaries, right, in northern Mali. Russia's Wagner Group, a private military company led by Yevgeny Prigozhin, a rogue millionaire with longtime links to Russia's President Vladimir Putin, has played a key role in the fighting in Ukraine and also deployed its personnel to Syria, Central African Republic, Libya and Mali. (French Army via AP, File)

Experts seek investigation of Wagner Group, Mali forces

Associated Press

Mothers along with babies who suffer from malnutrition wait to receive help and check-up at a clinic that run by the WFP, in Kabul, Afghanistan, Thursday, Jan. 26, 2023. A spokesman for the U.N. food agency says malnutrition rates in Afghanistan are at record highs. Aid agencies have been providing food, education, healthcare and other critical support to people, but distribution has been severely impacted by a Taliban edict banning women from working at national and international nongovernmental groups. (AP Photo/Ebrahim Noroozi)

UN food agency: Afghan malnutrition rates at record high

By Riazat Butt - Associated Press

United States Ambassador to the United Nations Linda Thomas-Greenfield speaks during a wreath-laying ceremony at the Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial on Martin Luther King Jr. Day in Washington, Monday, Jan. 16, 2023. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik)

U.S. ambassador heading to Africa as part of Biden’s big push

By Edith M. Lederer - Associated Press

U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations Nikki Haley, left whispers to U.S. Vice President Mike Pence during a high level Security Council meeting on United Nations peacekeeping operations, Wednesday, Sept. 20, 2017 at U.N. headquarters. (AP Photo/Mary Altaffer)

Nikki Haley operative defects to Mike Pence amid 2024 jostling

By Meg Kinnard - Associated Press

A Save the Children nutrition counselor, right, explains to Nelab, 22, how to feed her 11-month-old daughter, Parsto, with therapeutic food, which is used to treat severe acute malnutrition, in Sar-e-Pul province of Afghanistan, Thursday, Sept. 29, 2022. (Save the Children via AP, File)

UN says Taliban divided on appeal to restore women’s rights

By Edith M. Lederer - Associated Press

Live updates | World Economic Forum gathering in Davos

Associated Press

A Yemeni fighter backed by the Saudi-led coalition fires his weapon during clashes with Houthi rebels on the Kassara frontline near Marib, Yemen, June 20, 2021. (AP Photo/Nariman El-Mofty, File)

Yemen rebels, Saudis in back-channel talks to maintain truce

By Samy Magdy - Associated Press

Ms. Emine Dzhaparova, First Deputy Foreign Minister of Ukraine, speaks outside the Security Council chambers at United Nations headquarters, Thursday, Jan. 12, 2023. (AP Photo/John Minchillo)

Ukraine’s leader wants to visit U.N. on invasion anniversary

By Edith M. Lederer - Associated Press

A Save the Children nutrition counselor, right, explains to Nelab, 22, how to feed her 11-month-old daughter, Parsto, with therapeutic food, which is used to treat severe acute malnutrition, in Sar-e-Pul province of Afghanistan, Thursday, Sept. 29, 2022. (Save the Children via AP, File)

Afghan rulers urged to reverse ban on women aid workers

By Edith M. Lederer - Associated Press

Children stand near shelters at a camp for displaced people on the outskirts of Dollow, Somalia, Sept. 19, 2022. (AP Photo/Jerome Delay, File)

Global food prices in 2022 hit record high amid drought, war

Associated Press

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu attends the weekly cabinet meeting, Tuesday, Jan. 3, 2023, in Jerusalem. (Atef Safadi/Pool Photo via AP)

New Israeli government takes steps to penalize Palestinians

By Isabel Debre - Associated Press

Residents flee fighting between M23 rebels and Congolese forces near Kibumba, some 12 miles north of Goma, Democratic Republic of Congo, on Oct. 29, 2022. The accounts are haunting. Abductions, torture, rapes. Scores of civilians including women and children have been killed by the M23 rebels in eastern Congo, according to a U.N. report expected to be published this week. (AP Photo/Moses Sawasawa, File)

Abduction, torture, rape: Conflict in Congo worsens, says U.N.

By Sam Mednick - Associated Press

In this photo provided by the North Korean government, North Korean leader Kim Jong-un, bottom center, attends a ruling party congress in Pyongyang, North Korea, on Jan. 12, 2021. North Korean hackers have stolen an estimated 1.5 trillion won ($1.2 billion) in cryptocurrency and other virtual assets in the past five years, more than half of it this year alone, South Korea’s spy agency said Thursday, December 2022. (Korean Central News Agency/Korea News Service via AP, File)

Seoul: North Korean hackers stole $1.2B in virtual assets

By Hyung-jin Kim - Associated Press

Russian President Vladimir Putin, center, Azerbaijan's President Ilham Aliyev, left, and Armenia's Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan attention a news conference during their meeting in the Bocharov Ruchei residence in the Black Sea resort Sochi, Russia, on Nov. 26, 2021. A senior U.N. official urged the international community Tuesday, Dec. 20, 2022, to prevent Armenia and Azerbaijan from resuming their conflict over the disputed Nagorno-Karabakh region as the two countries accused each other of violating a Russian-brokered peace agreement.(Mikhail Klimentyev, Sputnik, Kremlin Pool Photo via AP, File)

U.N. official warns against new Armenia-Azerbaijan conflict

By Edith M. Lederer - Associated Press

This photo provided by the North Korean government, shows what it says a test of a rocket with the test satellite at the Sohae Satellite Launching Ground in North Korea Sunday, Dec. 18, 2022. Independent journalists were not given access to cover the event depicted in this image distributed by the North Korean government. The content of this image is as provided and cannot be independently verified. Korean language watermark on image as provided by source reads: &quot;KCNA&quot; which is the abbreviation for Korean Central News Agency. (Korean Central News Agency/Korea News Service via AP)

North Korea says rocket launch was test of 1st spy satellite

By Hyung-Jin Kim - Associated Press

Angelina Jolie, United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees special  envoy, addresses a meeting on U.N. peacekeeping at U.N. headquarters on March 29, 2019. Jolie and the United Nations' refugee agency are parting ways after more than two decades. In a joint statement issued Friday, Dec. 16, 2022, the actress and the agency announced she was “moving on” from her role as the agency's special envoy “to engage on a broader set of humanitarian and human rights issues.” (AP Photo/Bebeto Matthews, File)

Angelina Jolie leaves role as U.N. refugee agency envoy

Associated Press

Irish UN peacekeepers and Lebanese soldiers investigate the scene where gunfire came on a UN peacekeeper convoy in the Al-Aqbiya village, south Lebanon, Thursday, Dec. 15, 2022. (AP Photo/Mohammed Zaatari)

Irish U.N. peacekeeper killed after attack in southern Lebanon

By Abby Sewell and Kareem Chehayeb - Associated Press

President Joe Biden speaks during a bill signing ceremony for the Respect for Marriage Act, Tuesday, Dec. 13, 2022, on the South Lawn of the White House in Washington. (AP Photo/Patrick Semansky)

White House hails U.N. vote to oust Iran from women’s rights panel

By Jeff Mordock - The Washington Times

A Jewish settler waves the Israeli flag as protesters heckle activist on a &quot;solidarity tour&quot; of the embattled West Bank city of Hebron, Friday, Dec. 2, 2022. Israeli peace activists toured the occupied West Bank's largest city Friday in a show of solidarity with Palestinians, amid chants of &quot;shame, shame&quot; from ultra-nationalist hecklers. The encounter in the center of Hebron signaled the widening rift among Israelis over the nature of their society and Israel's open-ended military rule over the Palestinians, now in its 56th year. (AP Photo/ Maya Alleruzzo)

UN peddling of false narrative on Israel does not promote Mideast peace

By Dan Burton