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UN urges cease-fire to tackle virus ahead of Myanmar vote

By EDITH M. LEDERER - Associated Press

In this photo provided by the United Nations, Volkan Bozkir, President of the 75th session of the United Nations General Assembly, addresses the annual meeting of the United Nations Alliance of Civilizations (UNAOC) Group of Friends during the 75th session of the United Nations General Assembly, Tuesday, Sept. 29, 2020, at UN headquarters in New York. (Manuel Elias/UN Photo via AP)

UN summit in December to push action on COVID-19 pandemic

By EDITH M. LEDERER - 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. The U.N. said Libya’s rivals wrapped up their military talks in the Libyan oasis town of Ghadames, late Tuesday, Nov. 3, 2020, with a call to the U.N. Security Council to adopt a binding resolution to implement a cease-fire deal inked in Geneva in October. (Martial Trezzini/Keystone via AP, File)

Libya’s rivals urge UN Security Council to back cease-fire

By SAMY MAGDY - Associated Press

Norway’s Larsen resigns as think tank CEO over Epstein link

By EDITH M. LEDERER - Associated Press

FILE - In this Oct. 20, 2020 file photo, the head of the Government of National Accords (GNA) military delegation Ahmed Ali Abushahma attends talks between the rival factions in the Libya conflict, in Geneva, Switzerland. The UN says military leaders from Libya’s warring sides began meeting Monday, Nov. 2, 2020 in the Libyan oasis town of Ghadames, less than two weeks after the two sides inked a permanent cease-fire in Geneva. The fifth round of talks are first face-to-face military meetings inside Libya since last year's attack on the capital by the forces of military commander Khalifa Hifter. (Fabrice Coffrini/Pool via AP, File)

Libya’s warring sides meet, discuss implementing cease-fire

By SAMY MAGDY - Associated Press

FILE - In this May 28, 2020 file photo, President Donald Trump speaks as he receives a briefing on the 2020 hurricane season in the Oval Office of the White House in Washington. The United States is out of the Paris climate agreement on the day after the presidential election. Experts say the outcome will determine to some degree just how hot and nasty the world will get in the future. The two presidential candidates have stark differences on fighting human-caused climate change. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci, File)

US vote to shape how world warms as climate pact exit looms

By SETH BORENSTEIN - Associated Press

UN defeats Russia resolution promoting women at peace tables

By EDITH M. LEDERER - Associated Press

In this Feb. 13, 2012, file photo, an armed member of the militant group al-Shabab attends a rally on the outskirts of Mogadishu, Somalia. (AP Photo, File) **FILE**

US focused on disrupting finances for Somalia’s al-Shabab

By EDITH M. LEDERER - Associated Press

In this photo provided by the United Nations, Phumzile Mlambo-Ngcuka, Executive Director of UN Women, speaks in the U.N. General Assembly Thursday, Oct. 1, 2020, in New York. (Eskinder Debebe/UN Photo via AP)

UN: After 20 years, no equality for women in peace talks

By EDITH M. LEDERER - Associated Press

FILE - In this Oct. 14, 2020 file photo, a helicopter flies over a base of the U.N. peacekeeping force, in the southern town of Naqoura, Lebanon. On Wednesday, Oct. 28, 2020, Lebanon and Israel held a second round of U.S.-mediated talks over their disputed maritime border and agreed on a third meeting. The U.S.-mediated talks are being held in a tent at the U.N. post along the border known as Ras Naqoura, on the edge of the Lebanese border town of Naqoura. (AP Photo/Bilal Hussein, File)

Israel-Lebanon maritime talks productive, mediators say

By SARAH EL DEEB - Associated Press

UN cancels in-person meetings after report of 5 COVID cases

By EDITH M. LEDERER - Associated Press

People attend funeral of fighters killed in an airstrike in the town of Idlib, Syria, Monday, Oct. 26, 2020. An airstrike on a rebel training camp in northwestern Syria on Monday killed dozens of Turkish-backed fighters and wounded nearly as many, in one of the heaviest blows to the opposition's strongest groups, a spokesman and a war monitor said. (AP Photo)

US accuses Syria of delaying constitution ahead of election

By EDITH M. LEDERER - Associated Press

People, most of them pensioners, hold old Belarusian national flags march during an opposition rally to protest the official presidential election results in Minsk, Belarus, Monday, Oct. 26, 2020. Factory workers, students and business owners in Belarus have started a general strike, calling for authoritarian President Alexander Lukashenko to resign after more than two months of mass protests triggered by a disputed election. (AP Photo)

UN investigator says Belarus must stop repressing its people

By EDITH M. LEDERER - Associated Press

Iran’s Zarif urges UN to unite against US unilateral actions

By EDITH M. LEDERER - Associated Press

UN assembly chief unhappy at NY mayor spurning COVID meeting

By EDITH M. LEDERER - Associated Press

Two city police officers patrol the Navigli area, a popular evening spot of restaurants and pubs bordering canals in Milan, Italy, Thursday, Oct. 22, 2020. Authorities in regions including Italy's three largest cities have imposed curfews in a bid to slow the spread of COVID-19, as many of the cases in Lombardy's surging outbreak have occurred in Milan. On Thursday, an overnight curfew takes effect in the city, known for its lively night-time bar scene, and the rest of the region, as authorities try to slow the spread of the contagion. (AP Photo/Luca Bruno)

The Latest: Mexico’s Chihuahua border state back in lockdown

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United Nations Secretary-General António Guterres listens during an interview, Wednesday Oct. 21, 2020, at U.N. headquarters. (AP Photo/Bebeto Matthews)

UN chief says G20 leaders must coordinate to fight COVID-19

By EDITH M. LEDERER - Associated Press

FILE - In this Friday, April 4, 2014 file photo, the skulls and bones of some of those who were slaughtered as they sought refuge inside the church are laid out as a memorial to the thousands who were killed in and around the Catholic church during the 1994 genocide in Ntarama, Rwanda. France's highest court on Wednesday Sept.30, 2020 rejected Rwandan genocide suspect Félicien Kabuga's appeal of a decision to extradite him to an international court in The Hague. Kabuga, one of the most-wanted fugitives in Rwanda's 1994 genocide, was arrested outside Paris in May after 25 years on the run. (AP Photo/Ben Curtis, File)

UN judge orders Rwandan genocide suspect sent to The Hague

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Jonelson Princeton, 7, who survived cholera as a newborn, peers out from inside his home which was once used as an office, on a former UN base where he lives with his parents and grandmother in Mirebalais, Haiti, Monday, Oct. 19, 2020. Ten years after a cholera epidemic swept through Haiti and killed thousands, families of victims still struggle financially and await compensation from the United Nations as many continue to drink from and bathe in a river that became ground zero for the waterborne disease. (AP Photo/Dieu Nalio Chery)

A decade after deadly cholera epidemic, Haiti awaits help

By EVENS SANON and EDITH M. LEDERER - Associated Press

UN says shipwreck off Libya left 15 migrants dead

By BY SAMY MAGDY - Associated Press