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UN says shipwreck off Libya left 15 migrants dead

By BY SAMY MAGDY - Associated Press

This image taken with a slow shutter speed on Oct. 2, 2019, and provided by the U.S. Air Force shows an unarmed Minuteman 3 intercontinental ballistic missile test launch at Vandenberg Air Force Base, Calif. The Pentagon has raised to $95.8 billion the estimated cost of fielding a new fleet of land-based nuclear missiles to replace the Minuteman 3 (Staff Sgt. J.T. Armstrong/U.S. Air Force via AP)

US urges countries to withdraw from UN nuke ban treaty

By EDITH M. LEDERER - Associated Press

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

File-This June 4, 2020, file photo shows Women and children walk in a makeshift site for displaced people in Kongoussi, Burkina Faso. The U.N. humanitarian chief, Mark Lowcock, is hoping a major ministerial meeting on Tuesday, Oct. 20, 2020, will not only raise a billion dollars for the three countries at the epicenter of a humanitarian crisis in Africa’s Sahel region -- Burkina Faso, Mali, and Niger -- but spur leaders to address the underlying drivers including increasing conflict and insecurity, weak governance, and a lack of development (AP Photo/Sam Mednick, File)

Donors pledge $1.7 billion for Burkina Faso, Mail and Niger

By EDITH M. LEDERER - Associated Press

Illustration on Chinese aspirations by Linas Garsys/The Washington Times

Chinese Communist Party seeks nothing less than global domination

By Clifford D. May

FILE - In this Tuesday, Feb. 5, 2019, file photo, a woman walks past the Amnesty International India headquarters in Bangalore, India. The U.N. human rights chief Michelle Bachelet on Tuesday, Oct. 20, 2020, urged India’s government to do more to protect the rights of human rights defenders, who have come under mounting pressure in recent months in the world’s largest democracy. Last month, advocacy group Amnesty International halted its operation in India, citing reprisals by the government and the freezing of its bank accounts by Indian authorities. (AP Photo/Aijaz Rahi, File)

UN urges India government to better protect rights defenders

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FILE - In this Nov. 13, 2012 file photo, an Iranian clergyman stands next to missiles and army troops, during a manoeuvre, in an undisclosed location in Iran. A decade-long U.N. arms embargo on Iran that bared it from purchasing foreign weapons like tanks and fighter jets expired Sunday, Oct. 18, 20202, as planned under its nuclear deal with world powers, despite objections from the United States. (Majid Asgaripour/Mehr News Agency via AP, File)

UN arms embargoes on Iran expire despite US objections

By NASSER KARIMI - Associated Press

Yemeni prisoners chant slogans during their arrival after being released by the Saudi-led coalition in the airport of Sanaa, Yemen, Thursday, Oct. 15, 2020. (AP Photo/Hani Mohammed)

Yemen’s rival sides complete war’s largest prisoner exchange

By AHMED AL-HAJ and ISABEL DEBRE - Associated Press

FILE - In this Nov. 9, 2019 file photo, a supporter of Shiite rebels, known as Houthis, holds a banner with Arabic writing that reads, &quot;at your order, oh messenger of Allah,&quot; during a celebration of Mawlid al-Nabi the birth of Islam's prophet Muhammad in Sanaa, Yemen. A satellite TV channel run by Yemen’s Houthi rebels has broadcast on Thursday, Oct. 15, 2020, the start of a long-awaited prisoner exchange between the country’s warring sides. (AP Photo/Hani Mohammed, File)

Yemen’s warring sides kick off largest prisoner swap to date

By AHMED AL-HAJ and NOHA ELHENNAWY - Associated Press

A protester holds a poster with a message that reads in Spanish: &quot;Stop the Genocide,&quot; during a demonstration against a wave of massacres, in Bogota, Colombia, Monday, Sept. 21, 2020. Rather than a national dispute between guerrillas and the state, violence in rural Colombia is now marked by a patchwork of local feuds between criminal groups who fight over drug routes, illegal mines and even gasoline smuggling routes. (AP Photo/Fernando Vergara)

UN envoy says many ex-combatants in Colombia being killed

By EDITH M. LEDERER - Associated Press

UN humanitarian chief: Sahel is very close to tipping point

By EDITH M. LEDERER - Associated Press

Member state flags fly outside the United Nations headquarters during the 75th session of the United Nations General Assembly, Wednesday, Sept. 23, 2020. This year's annual gathering of world leaders at U.N. headquarters will be almost entirely &quot;virtual.&quot; Leaders have been asked to pre-record their speeches, which will be shown in the General Assembly chamber, where each of the 193 U.N. member nations are allowed to have one diplomat present. (AP Photo/Mary Altaffer)

China and Russia win seats on UN rights council, Saudis lose

By EDITH M. LEDERER - Associated Press

FILE - In this Feb. 26, 2011 file photo, a Libyan oil worker, works at a refinery inside the Brega oil complex, in Brega, eastern Libya. (AP Photo/Hussein Malla, File)

Libya to resume oil production at largest field amid talks

By SAMY MAGDY - Associated Press

U.S. President Donald Trump, right, and Chinese President Xi Jinping are greeted by children waving flowers and flags during a welcome ceremony at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing, Thursday, Nov. 9, 2017. (AP Photo/Andy Wong)

U.S. scrambling to hit back at China’s ‘magic weapon’ amid global power grab

By Guy Taylor - The Washington Times

In this image taken from WFP video, David Beasley, Executive director of the World Food Program (WFP), center, celebrates with members of WFP staff in Niamey, Niger, Friday Oct. 9, 2020, after being awarded the 2020 Nobel Peace prize. The World Food Program has won the 2020 Nobel Peace Prize for its efforts to combat hunger and food insecurity around the globe. The announcement was made Friday in Oslo by Berit Reiss-Andersen, the chair of the Nobel Committee. (WFP via AP)

Nobel win reflects ‘hunger for international cooperation’

By CARA ANNA - Associated Press

UN Security Council Back Home in Own Chamber After 7 Months

By EDITH M. LEDERER - Associated Press

UN envoy urges Malians to pull country from cycle of coups

By EDITH M. LEDERER - Associated Press

FILE - In this Sept. 29, 2018 file photo, a cargo ship is docked at the port, in Hodeida, Yemen. U.N. Special Envoy for Yemen Martin Griffiths released a statement Thursday, Oct. 8, 2020 condemning the recent clashes in Yemen’s strategic port city of Hodeida, which has so far left dozens of casualties, and urged the country’s warring parties to immediately stop the fighting. Since Saturday, clashes have flared up between Yemen’s Houthi rebels and government forces south of the port in Hodeida, which handles about 70% of Yemen’s commercial and humanitarian imports. (AP Photo/Hani Mohammed, File)

UN envoy condemns deadly clashes in Yemen’s key port city

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In this photo provided by the United Nations, Secretary-General Antonio Guterres briefs reporters during the 75th session of the United Nations General Assembly, Tuesday, Sept. 29, 2020, at U.N. headquarters in New York. (Rick Bajornas/UN Photo via AP) ** FILE **

UN chief: Pandemic shows need for universal health coverage

By EDITH M. LEDERER - Associated Press

UN ‘outraged’ by attack on food aid convoy in South Sudan

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