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Former South Carolina Gov. Nikki Haley speaks with reporters after a campus tour of South Carolina State University on Monday, April 12, 2021, in Orangeburg, S.C. (AP Photo/Meg Kinnard) ** FILE **

EXCLUSIVE: Haley blasts Biden for not revealing how sanctions relief for Iran helps terrorist groups

By Joseph Clark - The Washington Times

Mehdi Danesh-Yazdi, Iranian Deputy Ambassador to the United Nations, left, conducts a friendly conversation with Gustavo Zlauvinen, right, then Representative of the Director General of the International Atomic Energy Agency, before he spoke at a Security Council Meeting at U.N. Headquarters, Feb. 23, 2007. Days before its start date, Jan. 4, 2022, an international conference on a landmark Cold War-era nuclear treaty is poised to be postponed because coronavirus cases are surging in the host city of New York. (AP Photo/David Karp, File)

Nuclear treaty conference likely to be delayed due to virus

By Jennifer Peltz - Associated Press

An Ethiopian woman argues with others over the allocation of yellow split peas distributed by the Relief Society of Tigray in the town of Agula, in the Tigray region of northern Ethiopia, on May 8, 2021. In war-torn Tigray, it is not just that people are starving; it is that many are being starved, The Associated Press found. (AP Photo/Ben Curtis) ** FILE **

Deepening ethnic divisions cloud Ethiopian push for a peace deal

By Tonny Onyulo - Special to The Washington Times

Treaty between the United States of America and the Russian Federation on security guarantees (SPONSORED)

Treaty between the United States of America and the Russian Federation on security guarantees

By Russian Embassy

A boy flies a kite on Tape Nadir Khan hill in Kabul, Afghanistan, on Saturday, Dec. 4 , 2021. (AP Photo/Petros Giannakouris)

U.S. Treasury creates pathway to send aid to Afghanistan

By Josh Boak - Associated Press

UN General Assembly President Abdulla Shahid speaks at a high-level meeting on global road safety to meet the global SDG target of halving road traffic fatalities by 2030 at the United Nations Headquarters on Friday, Dec. 3, 2021 in New York. (Andrew Kelly/AP Images for FIA Foundation)

UN delays action on Myanmar and Afghanistan’s bid for seats

By Edith M. Lederer - Associated Press

NYPD emergency services officers respond to a man standing outside United Nations headquarters with a shotgun, Thursday, Dec. 2, 2021, in New York. A police spokesperson said hostage negotiators were speaking with the man, who appeared to be in his 60s. They hoped to resolve the situation peacefully (AP Photo/John Minchillo)

Armed man outside UN prompts standoff, lockdown

Associated Press

Libyan Gen. Khalifa Hifter joins a meeting with the Greek Foreign Minister Nikos Dendias in Athens, Greece, Jan. 17, 2020. Libya’s powerful commander, Khalifa Hifter, filed Tuesday, Nov. 16, 2021, as a candidate in the country’s presidential elections next month, as the long-waited vote faces growing uncertainty. Hifter submitted his candidacy papers in the eastern city of Benghazi and announced the move in a video. (AP Photo/Thanassis Stavrakis, File)

Khalifa Hifter, key Libya commander, announces candidacy for president

By Samy Magdy - Associated Press

Illustration on China's control of the United Nations by Alexander Hunter/The Washington Times

United Nations’ transnational bureaucrats now do Beijing’s bidding

By Clifford D. May

Indian minister for Environment and Climate Change Bhupender Yadav attends a stocktaking plenary session at the COP26 U.N. Climate Summit in Glasgow, Scotland, Saturday, Nov. 13, 2021. Going into overtime, negotiators at U.N. climate talks in Glasgow are still trying to find common ground on phasing out coal, when nations need to update their emission-cutting pledges and, especially, on money. (AP Photo/Alastair Grant)

Climate consensus appears near; India objects to coal plans

By Seth Borenstein and Frank Jordans - Associated Press

Delegates pack the hall at the COP26 U.N. Climate Summit in Glasgow, Scotland, Thursday, Nov. 11, 2021. (AP Photo/Alberto Pezzali)

Climate talks soften stance on fossil fuel phaseout

By Frank Jordans - Associated Press

Speaker of the United States House of Representatives Nancy Pelosi listens before speaking during an event, at the COP26 U.N. Climate Summit, in Glasgow, Scotland, Wednesday, Nov. 10, 2021. The U.N. climate summit in Glasgow has entered its second week as leaders from around the world, are gathering in Scotland's biggest city, to lay out their vision for addressing the common challenge of global warming. (AP Photo/Alastair Grant)

Roads are racist, weather is misogynist

By Cheryl K. Chumley - The Washington Times

FILE - Gov. Gavin Newsom speaks at Asian Health Services in Oakland, Calif., Wednesday, Oct. 27, 2021. Newsom, who has been absent from public life in nearly two weeks after canceling his planned trip to Scotland for the United Nation's climate conference, is expected to appear at the the 2021 California Economic Summit in Monterey, Tuesday Nov. 9,2021. (AP Photo/Jeff Chiu, File)

California’s governor to end rare hiatus from public view

By Adam Beam - Associated Press

In this Nov. 17, 2007, file photo, a worker repairs a part of a unit of the Tehran oil refinery in Tehran, Iran. (AP Photo/Vahid Salemi) ** FILE **

China upholding Iranian regime with oil purchases

By Guy Taylor - The Washington Times

Countries pledge to phase out climate culprit coal

By Frank Jordans and Sylvia Hui - Associated Press

Workers carry boxes of seafood on Nov. 8, 2013, as they load a Chinese transport truck at the Suchae Bong Corp seafood factory in Rajin, North Korea, inside the Rason Special Economic Zone. China and Russia are urging the U.N. Security Council to end a host of sanctions against North Korea ranging from the export of seafood and textiles to the cap on imports of refined petroleum products and the ban on its citizens working overseas and sending home their earnings. (AP Photo/David Guttenfelder, File)

China, Russia urge U.N. Security Council to end key sanctions on North Korea

By Edith M. Lederer - Associated Press

View of the Procedural Opening of the COP26 U.N. Climate Summit in Glasgow, Scotland, Sunday, Oct. 31, 2021. The U.N. climate summit in Glasgow formally opens Sunday, a day before leaders from around the world gather in Scotland's biggest city to lay out their vision for addressing the common challenge of global warming. (AP Photo/Alberto Pezzali, Pool)

Fretful climate crunch in Glasgow

By Editorial Board - The Washington Times

World Health Organisation Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus waves as he arrives for a meeting of G20 finance and health ministers at the Salone delle Fontane (Hall of Fountains) in Rome, Friday, Oct. 29, 2021. The World Health Organization says its director-general, Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, is running unopposed for a second five-year term. The U.N. health agency made the announcement Friday after the deadline for candidacies for the next five-year term expired on Sept. 23. (AP Photo/Alessandra Tarantino)

WHO Director-General Tedros unopposed for 2nd five-year term

Associated Press

Sen. Steve Daines, Montana Republican, speaks to reporters on the campus of Montana State University Billings in Billings, Mont., on Friday, April 23, 2021. (AP Photo/Matthew Brown) **FILE**

Daines raps Biden calling climate change a threat to U.S. ‘financial stability’: ‘Virtue signaling’

By Haris Alic - The Washington Times

Pope Francis delivers his blessing as he recites the Angelus noon prayer from the window of his studio overlooking St.Peter's Square, at the Vatican, Sunday, Oct. 24, 2021. (AP Photo/Andrew Medichini)

Pope to UN conference: Don’t waste chance to save the planet

Associated Press