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Stephanie Williams, the U.N. secretary-general's acting special representative in Libya, speaks to the Associated Press at the European headquarters of the United Nations in Geneva, Switzerland, Thursday Feb. 4, 2021. Stephanie Williams said Thursday that a top military commander who runs eastern regions has given his backing to efforts to unite the divided country around an interim government before elections can be held late this year. (Martial Trezzini/Keystone via AP)

Libya’s factions chose interim government ahead of elections

By JAMEY KEATEN and NOHA ELHENNAWY - Associated Press

FILE - In this Dec. 13, 2020, file photo, refugees who fled the conflict in Ethiopia's Tigray region arrive from Village 8, the transit center near the Lugdi border crossing, at Umm Rakouba refugee camp in Qadarif, eastern Sudan. Huge unknowns persist in the deadly conflict, but details of the involvement of neighboring Eritrea, one of the world's most secretive countries, are emerging through witness accounts by survivors and others. (AP Photo/Nariman El-Mofty, File)

US urges Ethiopia’s PM to allow ‘immediate’ help to Tigray

By CARA ANNA and EDITH M. LEDERER - Associated Press

Myanmar nationals living in Thailand hold candle light during protest in front of Myanmar Embassy in Bangkok, Thailand, Thursday, Feb. 4, 2021. The military announced Monday that it will take power for one year, accusing Suu Kyi's government of not investigating allegations of voter fraud in recent elections. Suu Kyi's party swept that vote and the military-backed party did poorly. The state Election Commission has refuted the allegations. (AP Photo/Sakchai Lalit)

UN backs democracy in Myanmar and urges release of detainees

By EDITH M. LEDERER - Associated Press

UN approves advance team for Libya for cease-fire monitoring

By EDITH M. LEDERER - Associated Press

FILE - In this Jan. 11, 2018 file photo, Afghan prisoners prepare to be released from Pul-e-Charkhi prison, in Kabul, Afghanistan. A new report conducted jointly by the U.N. mission to Afghanistan and the U.N. Human Rights Office said Wednesday, Jan. 3, 2021, that nearly a third of all detainees held in Afghan detention centers said they have suffered from some form of torture or ill-treatment. The alleged torture included beatings, suffocation and electric shocks. (AP Photo/Rahmat Gul, File)

UN report: Widespread torture of detainees in Afghan prisons

By TAMEEM AKHGAR - Associated Press

UN presses for access to Ethiopia’s embattled Tigray region

By EDITH M. LEDERER - Associated Press

Soldiers stand guard near an intersection Tuesday, Feb. 2, 2021 in Naypyitaw, Myanmar. Hundreds of members of Myanmar's Parliament remained confined inside their government housing in the country's capital on Tuesday, a day after the military staged a coup and detained senior politicians including Nobel laureate and de facto leader Aung San Suu Kyi. (AP Photo)

UN Security Council takes no action on coup in Myanmar

By EDITH M. LEDERER - Associated Press

CORRECTS SPELLING OF SOURCE TO MAXAR - This satellite image provided by Maxar Technologies taken June 17, 2020, shows the FSO Safer tanker moored off Ras Issa port, in Yemen. Houthi rebels are blocking the United Nations from inspecting the abandoned oil tanker loaded with more than one million barrels of crude oil. UN officials and experts fear the tanker could explode or leak, causing massive environmental damage to Red Sea marine life. (Maxar Technologies via AP)

UN worried Yemen’s Houthis may renege on tanker examination

By EDITH M. LEDERER - Associated Press

UN: Central African Republic faces dire humanitarian plight

By EDITH M. LEDERER - Associated Press

FILE - In this file photo dated Sunday, Nov. 15, 2020, Stephanie Williams, Acting Special Representative of the Secretary-General and Head of the United Nations Support Mission speaks during a news conference in Tunis, Tunisia. Delegates from Libya’s opposing sides kick off a five-day meeting on Monday Feb. 1, 2021, to choose an interim prime minister before an election in December 2021, with the voting process taking place under the mediation of the U.N. secretary-general’s acting special representative for Libya, Stephanie Williams.(AP Photo/Walid Haddad, FILE)

Libya’s future in balance in UN-backed leadership vote

By JAMEY KEATEN and SAMY MAGDY - Associated Press

Residents and officials lead a demonstration supporting a resolution to allocate 13 seats to the Banadir region which encompasses the capital, in effect expanding the Senate, in Mogadishu, Somalia Friday, Jan. 29, 2021. As Somalia marks three decades since a dictator fell and chaos engulfed the country, the government is set to hold a troubled national election but two regional states are refusing to take part in the vote to elect Somalia's president and time is running out before the Feb. 8 date on which mandates expire. (AP Photo/Farah Abdi Warsameh)

Time running out on Somalia’s troubled vote as citizens sigh

By HASSAN BARISE - Associated Press

FILE - In this Dec. 13, 2018 file photo, a worker counts money at the Central Bank of Yemen's internationally recognized government in Aden, Yemen. A report by a panel of U.N. experts released Tuesday, Jan. 26, 2021, accused the government of implementing a scheme in 2019 to illegally divert to traders $423 million in Saudi money. The funds were meant to buy rice and other supplies for Yemenis who have been suffering from a protracted military conflict since 2014, the report said. The Central Bank of Yemen said Wednesday the report was based on “misleading claims and information” propagated by “enemies of Yemen.” (AP Photo/Jon Gambrell, File)

Yemen’s central bank dismisses UN corruption allegations

By NOHA ELHENNAWY - Associated Press

UN puts new tech envoy on leave after harassment allegations

By EDITH M. LEDERER - Associated Press

US calls on Russia, Turkey, UAE to halt Libya intervention

By EDITH M. LEDERER - Associated Press

New UN report airs concerns about human rights in Sri Lanka

By JAMEY KEATEN and KRISHAN FRANCIS - Associated Press

Sri Lankan municipal workers wait as they prepare to cremate a body of a COVID-19 victim at a cemetery in Colombo, Sri Lanka, Friday, Jan. 22, 2021. Sri Lanka on Friday approved the Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine for COVID-19 amid warnings from doctors that front-line health workers should be quickly inoculated to stop the system from collapsing. (AP Photo/Eranga Jayawardena)

UN group says Sri Lanka virus cremation rule violates rights

By KRISHAN FRANCIS - Associated Press

Norwegian Borge Brende, left, President and Member of the Managing Board of the World Economic Forum (WEF) speaks U.N. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres via videolink during the Davos Forum, in Cologny near Geneva, Switzerland, Monday, Jan. 25, 2021. U.N. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres is warning global leaders that the world not only faces a COVID-19 emergency and the worst economic crisis in nearly a century but “existential threats” to the climate and biodiversity. He said it also faces the possibility of the largest economies, the United States and China, splitting the world in two. (Salvatore Di Nolfi/Keystone via AP)

UN chief: World faces ‘existential threats,’ fragilities

By EDITH M. LEDERER - Associated Press

UN forecasts 4.7% global economic growth in 2021

By EDITH M. LEDERER - Associated Press

UN: Violence in Sudan’s Darfur killed 250, displaced 100,000

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UN warns of ‘serious’ rape charges in Ethiopia’s Tigray

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