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Locusts now threatening parts of southern Africa, UN says

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A man wearing a face mask walks near a banner displaying as a part of campaign to overcome the coronavirus in Seoul, South Korea, Friday, Sept. 4, 2020. (AP Photo/Lee Jin-man)

The Latest: Mexico states run out of death certificates

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FILE - In this Monday, Dec. 30, 2013 file photo, a United Nations armored vehicle passes displaced people walking towards the U.N. Protection of Civilians camp in Malakal, South Sudan. The United Nations peacekeeping mission in South Sudan said on Friday, Sept. 4, 2020 that it has begun withdrawing its troops and police from the protection of civilians camps that continue to shelter more than 180,000 people two years after the end of the country's civil war. (AP Photo/Ben Curtis, File)

UN begins pullout from South Sudan civilian protection camps

By CARA ANNA - Associated Press

FILE - In this Sept. 29, 2020, Afghan President Ashraf Ghani, center, former President Hamid Karzai, right, and Chief Executive Abdullah Abdullah, left, watch the live broadcast of Gulbuddin Hekmatyar after the signing of a peace treaty at the presidential palace in Kabul, Afghanistan. Officials on both sides of Afghanistan's protracted conflict say efforts are ramping up for the start of intra-Afghan negotiations, a critical next step to a U.S. negotiated peace deal with the Taliban. (AP Photo/Rahmat Gul, File)

Efforts ramp up to get Taliban-Afghan peace talks started

By KATHY GANNON and RAHIM FAIEZ and EDITH M. LEDERER - Associated Press

Members named to panel probing WHO’s pandemic response

By MARIA CHENG - Associated Press

Former UN official charged with lying about rape in Iraq

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UN: Libya at `turning point,’ COVID heading `out of control’

By EDITH M. LEDERER - Associated Press

U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations Kelly Craft listens as Secretary of State Mike Pompeo speaks to reporters following a meeting with members of the U.N. Security Council, Thursday, Aug. 20, 2020, at the United Nations. The Trump administration has formally notified the United Nations of its demand for all U.N. sanctions on Iran to be restored, citing significant Iranian violations of the 2015 nuclear deal. (Mike Segar/Pool via AP)

US vetoes UN resolution over Islamic State fighters’ return

By EDITH M. LEDERER - Associated Press

In this May 6, 2020, file photo, a temporary worker from Mexico plants strawberries on a farm in Mirabel, Quebec as the COVID-19 pandemic continues in Canada and around the world. The coronavirus pandemic has brought hard times for many farmers and has imperiled food security for many millions both in the cities and the countryside. (Graham Hughes/The Canadian Press via AP, File)

Pandemic brings hard times for farmers, worsening hunger

By Elaine Kurtenbach - Associated Press

UN chief: Virus reversed fragile progress on gender equality

By EDITH M. LEDERER - Associated Press

FILE - In this June 4, 2020 file photo, Fayez Sarraj, the head of Libya's internationally-recognized government, speaks at a joint news conference with Turkey's President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, in Ankara, Turkey. Libya’s U.N.-supported government Friday, Aug. 21, 2020, announced a cease-fire across the oil-rich country and called for demilitarizing the strategic city of Sirte, which is controlled by rival forces. (Turkish Presidency via AP, Pool)

UN expresses concern over ‘dramatic turn’ in Libya crisis

By SAMY MAGDY - Associated Press

UN calls for action to increase women in peacekeeping

By EDITH M. LEDERER - Associated Press

Media watchdog urges Libyan gov’t to release reporter

By NOHA ELHENNAWY - Associated Press

In this Thursday, Aug. 20, 2020, file photo, Secretary of State Mike Pompeo speaks to reporters following a meeting with members of the U.N. Security Council, at the United Nations. (Mike Segar/Pool via AP, File)

It’s US against most of UN council on Iran sanctions

By EDITH M. LEDERER and MATTHEW LEE - Associated Press

The Syrian Constitutional Committee Co-Chair Hadi al-Bahra, left, wearing face mask as precaution against the spread of the coronavirus as he leaves the building following the announcement of the suspension of the conference due to cases of Covid-19, affecting members of one of the delegations, at the European headquarters of the United Nations in Geneva, Switzerland, Monday, Aug. 24, 2020. (Salvatore Di Nolfi/Keystone via AP)

UN official: COVID cases likely far higher than Syria says

By EDITH M. LEDERER - Associated Press

People crowd the commuter train platforms at Atocha station in Madrid, Spain, Thursday, Aug. 27, 2020. Authorities in Madrid, the hottest spot in Spain's new surge of coronavirus contagion, said Wednesday they only consider very localized stay-at-home orders for the worst-hit areas of the Spanish capital, discarding the idea locking down the city of 3.3 million. (AP Photo/Andrea Comas)

Virus brings closings in US state, WHO warnings in Europe

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FILE - In this Dec. 8, 2019 file photo, a protester rests by a mural with Arabic that reads, &quot;I want my oil,&quot; in Baghdad, Iraq. The historic crash in oil prices in the wake of the novel coronavirus pandemic is reverberating across the Middle East as crude-dependent countries scramble to offset losses from a key source of state revenue. Iraq faces the most dire situation, and officials are trying to find ways to cut spending. Iraq saw massive protests the past months by a populace angry over the weak economy and rampant corruption -- and the turmoil could erupt again. (AP Photo/Nasser Nasser, File)

UN envoy: Pandemic increased poverty in Iraq by over 10%

By EDITH M. LEDERER - Associated Press

FILE - In this Wednesday, Nov. 22, 2017 file photo, Bosnian Serb military chief Ratko Mladic enters the Yugoslav War Crimes Tribunal in The Hague, Netherlands, to hear the verdict in his genocide trial. Mladic is appealing Tuesday, Aug. 25, 2020 against his convictions for crimes including genocide committed throughout the 1992-95 Bosnian War. Mladic was convicted by a U.N. war crimes tribunal in 2017 and sentenced to life imprisonment for masterminding crimes by Bosnian Serb forces throughout the war that left 100,000 dead, an overwhelming majority of them Bosnian Muslim civilians. (AP Photo/Peter Dejong, Pool, File)

Mladic lawyers call on UN judges to overturn his convictions

By MIKE CORDER - Associated Press

Director General of International Atomic Energy Agency, IAEA, Rafael Mariano Grossi attends a meeting with head of the Atomic Energy Organization of Iran Ali Akbar Salehi, in Tehran, Iran, Tuesday, Aug. 25, 2020. (Atomic Energy Organization of Iran via AP)

Iran dismisses demands beyond nuke deal as IAEA head visits

By NASSER KARIMI - Associated Press

People protest outside of the Trump International Hotel during the second night of the Republican National Convention in Washington, Tuesday, Aug. 25, 2020. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster)

AP FACT CHECK: GOP taps distortions to heap praise on Trump

By JOSH BOAK and HOPE YEN and CALVIN WOODWARD - Associated Press