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In this photo provided by the United Nations, Smriti Irani, India's Minister for Women and Child Development, speaks in the U.N. General Assembly Thursday, Oct. 1, 2020, in New York. (Loey Felipe/UN Photo via AP)

Linda Thomas-Greenfield at U.N. will bring back Barack Obama’s apology tours, times ten

By Cheryl K. Chumley - The Washington Times

This photo provided by the University of Maryland shows Brooke Czwartacki taking a measurement in a well in Awendaw, South Carolina. Czwartacki regularly checks the salinity of well water as saltwater invades the state’s aquifers. (Hunter Musi/Stanford University via AP)

Coastal harm from invading saltwater ‘happening right now’

By BILL LAMBRECHT and GRACIE TODD / The Howard Center for Investigative Journalism - Associated Press

FILE - In this Sept. 29, 2020 file photo, former Nissan Motor Co. Chairman Carlos Ghosn holds a press conference at the Maronite Christian Holy Spirit University of Kaslik, north of Beirut, Lebanon. In an opinion published Monday, Nov. 23, 2020, a panel of human rights experts working with the United Nations says former Renault-Nissan boss Carlos Ghosn was wrongly detained in Japan in late 2018 and has urged “compensation” and “other reparations” for him from the Japanese government. (AP Photo/Hussein Malla, file)

Rights experts: Japan’s handling of Carlos Ghosn was wrong

By JAMEY KEATEN and JEFFREY SCHAEFFER - Associated Press

A malnourished girl Rahmah Watheeq receives treatment at a feeding center at Al-Sabeen hospital in Sanaa, Yemen, Tuesday. Nov. 3, 2020. Two-thirds of Yemen's population of about 28 million people are hungry, and nearly 1.5 million families currently rely entirely on food aid to survive, with another million people are set to fall into crisis levels of hunger before the year end, according to aid agencies working in Yemen. (AP Photo/Hani Mohammed)

In multiple countries, alarm over hunger crisis rings louder

By EISSA AHMED and TAMEEM AKHGAR AND SAMY MAGDY - Associated Press

Ethiopian refugees gather in Qadarif region, easter Sudan, Wednesday, Nov 18, 2020. The U.N. refugee agency says Ethiopia's growing conflict has resulted in thousands fleeing from the Tigray region into Sudan as fighting spilled beyond Ethiopia's borders and threatened to inflame the Horn of Africa region. (AP Photo/Marwan Ali)

Ethiopia’s multiple crises: War, COVID-19, even locusts

By CARA ANNA - Associated Press

FILE - In this Saturday, Nov. 11, 2017 file photo, Patricia Espinosa, executive secretary of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change, smiles in the U.S. Climate Action Center during the &quot;AMERICA'S PLEDGE&quot; and &quot;WE ARE STILL IN&quot; campaign at the COP 23 Fiji UN Climate Change Conference in Bonn, Germany. The U.N.’s climate chief Patricia Espinosa says deadlines set by some of the world's top polluters to end greenhouse gas emissions, along with president-elect Joe Biden's pledge to take the United States back into the Paris accord, have boosted hopes of meeting the pact's ambitious goals. (AP Photo/Martin Meissner, File)

UN climate chief: Pledges by big polluters boost Paris hopes

By FRANK JORDANS - Associated Press

In this June 18, 2014, file photo flags fly outside the United Nations building in Vienna, Austria. An internal confidential document from the United Nations, leaked to The New Humanitarian and seen by The Associated Press, says that dozens of servers were “compromised” at offices in Geneva and Vienna. (AP Photo/Ronald Zak, File) **FILE**

United Nations using COVID-19 to take over the world

By Cheryl K. Chumley - The Washington Times

Warning of famine, UN releases $100M to seven countries

Associated Press

Illustration on assaults on the world order by Linas Garsys/The Washington Times

U.N. and other international organizations hijacked by despots

By Clifford D. May

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, Sunday, Nov. 15, 2020. Libya's warring sides have agreed to hold nationwide elections in December next year, the top U.N. official for the North African country said Friday in a sign of progress from the U.N.-brokered peace talks underway in Tunisia. (AP Photo/Walid Haddad)

UN-led Libya talks end without naming interim government

By BOUAZZA BEN BOUAZZA and SAMY MAGDY - Associated Press

FILE - World Food Program (WFP) Executive Director David Beasley speaks to the media about the organization's Nobel Peace Prize win, at the airport in Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso, late Friday, Oct. 9, 2020. Beasley says the Nobel Peace Prize has given the U.N. agency a spotlight and megaphone to warn world leaders that next year is going to be worse than this year, and without billions of dollars “we are going to have famines of biblical proportions in 2021.” (AP Photo/Sam Mednick)

Nobel UN food agency warns 2021 will be worse than 2020

By EDITH M. LEDERER - Associated Press

Women prepare traditional Ethiopian coffee at street-side coffee stall in the capital Addis Ababa, Ethiopia Friday, Nov. 13, 2020. Tensions over the deadly conflict in Ethiopia are spreading well beyond its cut-off northern Tigray region, as the federal government said some 150 suspected &quot;operatives&quot; accused of seeking to &quot;strike fear and terror&quot; throughout the country had been detained. (AP Photo/Mulugeta Ayene)

As Ethiopia’s conflict rages, ethnic targeting turns deadly

By CARA ANNA - Associated Press

FILE - In this May 20 2008 file photo, pro-independence Polisario Front rebel soldiers prepare tea in the Western Sahara region of Tifariti. The Moroccan military has intervened in a U.N.-patrolled border zone in the disputed Western Sahara to clear a key road it said was being blockaded for weeks by supporters of the pro-independence Polisario Front. Moroccan forces set up a security cordon overnight in the Guerguerat buffer zone on Western Sahara's southern border with Mauritania, &quot;in order to secure the flow of goods and people through this axis,&quot; (AP Photo/Daniel Ochoa de Olza, File)

UN chief vows to do utmost to keep Western Sahara cease-fire

By EDITH M. LEDERER - Associated Press

Stephanie Williams, Acting Special Representative of the Secretary-General and Head of the United Nations Support Mission attends the opening ceremony of the Libya's peace talks in Tunis, Tunisia, Monday Nov. 9, 2020. Libya's rival factions began much-awaited political peace talks in Tunisia's capital on Monday brokered by the United Nations, with a goal of drawing a roadmap to presidential and parliamentary elections. (AP Photo/Hassene Dridi)

UN-led Libya talks set December 2021 date for elections

Associated Press

UN votes to crack down on Somalia’s al-Shabab extremists

By EDITH M. LEDERER - Associated Press

FILE - In this Wednesday, June 17, 2020 file photo the High Commissioner for Human Rights, Michelle Bachelet, attends a meeting of the Human Rights Council of the United Nations in Geneva, Switzerland. The U.N. human rights chief is hailing “some extremely encouraging pledges” from U.S. President-elect Joe Biden, citing his call for efforts to address issues like systemic racism, women’s rights, torture and climate change. (Martial Trezzini/Keystone via AP, file)

UN rights chief to AP: Biden’s pledges are ‘encouraging’

By JAMEY KEATEN - Associated Press

Russian President Vladimir Putin, listens to Syrian President Bashar Assad, right on screen, during their talks via video conference at the Novo-Ogaryovo residence outside Moscow, Russia, Monday, Nov. 9, 2020. (Alexei Nikolsky, Sputnik, Kremlin Pool Photo via AP)

EU snubs Russia-backed event on returning refugees to Syria

By LORNE COOK - Associated Press

Russian President Vladimir Putin, listens to Syrian President Bashar Assad, right on screen, during their talks via video conference at the Novo-Ogaryovo residence outside Moscow, Russia, Monday, Nov. 9, 2020. (Alexei Nikolsky, Sputnik, Kremlin Pool Photo via AP)

Russia’s Putin says time for Syrian refugees to return home

By ALBERT AJI - Associated Press

China, Iran join queue to scrutinize US at UN rights body

By JAMEY KEATEN - Associated Press

FILE - In this Oct. 21, 2020 file photo, Stephanie Williams, Acting Special Representative of the Secretary-General and Head of the United Nations Support Mission in Libya, speaks about the fourth round of the 5+5 Libyan Joint Military Commission, during a press conference at the European headquarters of the U.N. in Geneva, Switzerland. On Monday, Nov. 9, 2020, Libya’s rival factions began much-awaited political peace talks in Tunisia’s capital brokered by the United Nations, with a goal of drawing a roadmap to presidential and parliamentary elections. (Martial Trezzini/Keystone via AP, File)

Libya rivals start UN-led talks in Tunisia on political deal

By BOUAZZA BEN BOUAZZA AND SAMY MAGDY - Associated Press