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A van containing the body of Italian ambassador to Congo Luca Attanasio arrives at the airport to be transported to the capital Kinshasa, in Goma, North Kivu province, Congo, Tuesday, Feb. 23, 2021. Congo has dispatched a team to support investigators on the ground in Goma where the Italian ambassador to Congo, an Italian Carabinieri police officer and their driver were ambushed and killed Monday. A specialized Italian Carabinieri unit is expected in Congo Tuesday to look into the killings with the support of the Congolese authorities and the United Nations Mission in Congo. (AP Photo)

Congo, Italy, UN probe ambassador’s killing amid questions

By JEAN-YVES KAMALE and CARLEY PETESCH - Associated Press

UN registers steep rise in murders of Colombian activists

By MANUEL RUEDA - Associated Press

Libya: Over 150 migrants freed in raid on traffickers

By BY SAMY MAGDY - Associated Press

In this image taken from video, United Nations peacekeepers guard the area where a U.N. convoy was attacked and the Italian ambassador to Congo killed, in Nyiragongo, North Kivu province, Congo Monday, Feb. 22, 2021. The Italian ambassador to Congo Luca Attanasio, an Italian carabineri police officer and their Congolese driver were killed Monday in an attack on a U.N. convoy in an area that is home to myriad rebel groups, the Foreign Ministry and local people said. (AP Photo/Justin Kabumba)

Italian ambassador among 3 killed in attack on Congo convoy

By JEAN-YVES KAMALE and NICOLE WINFIELD - Associated Press

Director General of International Atomic Energy Agency, IAEA, Rafael Mariano Grossi speaks in a meeting with Iran's atomic chief Ali Akbar Salehi in Tehran, Iran, Sunday, Feb. 21, 2021. Grossi met with Salehi ahead of Iran's plans to partly suspend United Nations inspections of the country's nuclear facilities. (Atomic Energy Organization of Iran via AP)

UN nuclear chief says Iran to grant ‘less access’ to program

By AMIR VAHDAT and JON GAMBRELL and DAVID RISING - Associated Press

FILE - In this Dec. 26, 2019 file photo, Libyan Interior Minister Fathi Bashagha speaks during a news conference in Tunis, Tunisia. The motorcade of the interior minister of Libya’s U.N.-backed government came under attack on Sunday, Feb. 21, 2021, in the capital, Tripoli, a government spokesman said. Bashagha survived the attack. (AP Photo/Hassene Dridi, File)

Libyan interior minister survives attack on motorcade

By SAMY MAGDY - Associated Press

In this image made from UNTV video, United Nations Secretary General Antonio Guterres speaks during a U.N. Security Council high-level meeting on COVID-19 recovery focusing on vaccinations, chaired by British Foreign Secretary Dominc Raab, Wednesday, Feb. 17, 2021, at UN headquarters, in New York. (UNTV via AP)

UK urges UN resolution for pause in conflicts for virus jabs

By EDITH M. LEDERER - Associated Press

UN says malnutrition ‘very critical’ in Ethiopia’s Tigray

By CARA ANNA - Associated Press

This undated image taken from video in an unknown location shows Sheikha Latifa bint Mohammed Al Maktoum speaking into a mobile phone camera. The United Nations’ human rights body said Wednesday Feb. 17, 2021, it will seek information from the United Arab Emirates about the daughter of Dubai’s powerful ruler after she said in video messages that she was being imprisoned in a heavily guarded villa. (#FreeLatifa campaign – Tiina Jauhiainen/David Haigh via AP)

UN asks Emirates for ‘proof of life’ for missing princess

By Associated Press - Associated Press

UN gives green light to fund Lebanon tribunal for 2021

By EDITH M. LEDERER - Associated Press

UN report: South Sudan’s violence ‘worse’ than in civil war

By CARA ANNA - Associated Press

FILE - In this July 13, 2014 file photo, Jan Kubis, United Nation representative for Afghanistan speaks during a joint press conference at the Independent Election Commission office in Kabul, Afghanistan. Kubis, the U.N. special envoy to Libya on Friday, Feb. 19, 2021, met with the country’s east-based military commander as part of efforts to unite rival factions in the war-torn North African nation ahead of elections scheduled for December.(AP photo/Rahmat Gul, File)

UN envoy meets east-based Libya commander in push for unity

By NOHA ELHENNAWY - Associated Press

In this picture released by the official website of the office of the Iranian supreme leader, Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei speaks during a meeting with army's air force and air defense staff in Tehran, Iran, Sunday, Feb. 7, 2021. Iran's supreme leader said the U.S. must lift all sanctions if it wants Iran to return to its commitments to the nuclear deal with Western powers. (Office of the Iranian Supreme Leader via AP)

Biden withdraws Trump’s restoration of UN sanctions on Iran

By EDITH M. LEDERER - Associated Press

Emissions from a coal-fired power plant are silhouetted against the setting sun, Monday, Feb. 1, 2021, in Independence, Mo. A United Nations report released on Thursday, Feb. 18, 2021 says humans are making Earth a broken and increasingly unlivable planet through climate change, biodiversity loss and pollution. So the world must make dramatic changes to society, economics and daily life. (AP Photo/Charlie Riedel)

UN: Huge changes in society needed to keep nature, Earth OK

By BY SETH BORENSTEIN - Associated Press

Demonstrators protest against the military junta's arrest and chagrining of National League for Democracy party lawmakers, Mandalay region Chief Minister Zaw Myint Maung and Mayor Ye Lwin, outside Aung Myay Thar Zan Township court in Mandalay, Myanmar, Thursday, Feb. 18, 2021. Tens of thousands of demonstrators flooded the streets of Myanmar's biggest city, Yangon, Wednesday, in one of largest protests yet of a coup, despite warnings from a U.N. human rights expert that recent troop movements could indicate the military was planning a violent crackdown. (AP Photo)

Myanmar protests focus on junta’s economic support

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In this image made from UNTV video, United Nations Secretary General Antonio Guterres speaks during a U.N. Security Council high-level meeting on COVID-19 recovery focusing on vaccinations, chaired by British Foreign Secretary Dominc Raab, Wednesday, Feb. 17, 2021, at UN headquarters, in New York. (UNTV via AP)

UN chief urges global plan to reverse unfair vaccine access

By EDITH M. LEDERER - Associated Press

Buddhist monks display placrds during a protest march against the military coup in Yangon, Myanmar Tuesday, Feb. 16, 2021. Peaceful demonstrations against Myanmar's military takeover resumed Tuesday, following violence against protesters a day earlier by security forces and after internet access was blocked for a second straight night. (AP Photo)

Big protests across Myanmar as U.N. expert fears violence

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Lee Yong-soo, a South Korean woman who was sexually enslaved by Japan's World War II military, weeps during a press conference at the Press Center in Seoul, South Korea, Tuesday, Feb. 16, 2021. Lee called for the leaders of both countries to settle an impasse over the issue by seeking judgment from the International Court of Justice. (AP Photo/Ahn Young-joon)

S. Korean sexual slavery survivor wants UN court judgment

By KIM TONG-HYUNG - Associated Press

UN chief: CAR peacekeeping force needs 3,700 reinforcements

By EDITH M. LEDERER - Associated Press

Malaysia to deport 1,200 Myanmar migrants amid concerns

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