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UN in Libya warns of possible war crimes as fighting rages

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This photo provided on April 12, 2020, by the Syrian American Medical Society, which has been authenticated based on its contents and other AP reporting, shows a nurse checking a man for fever and other symptoms as part of the effort to contain and trace the coronavirus, in a tent outside Idlib Central Hospital, Idlib, northern Syria. Nine years of war have broken Syria into three rival parts, and each is struggling to cope with a common enemy that knows no conflict lines. Unable to work together, their divisions are hurting frantic efforts to mobilize against the coronavirus in a country where the health sector is already devastated by war. (Syrian American Medical Society via AP)

Syria’s divisions damage efforts to mobilize against virus

By SARAH EL DEEB - Associated Press

A woman listens to music at a park on Roosevelt Island, Tuesday, March 17, 2020, in New York, with a United Nations building in the background. New York State entered a new phase in the coronavirus pandemic Monday, as New York City closed its public schools, and officials said schools statewide would close by Wednesday. New York joined with Connecticut and New Jersey to close bars, restaurants and movie theaters along with setting limits on social gatherings. (AP Photo/Mary Altaffer)

UN calls for scaling up all efforts to confront pandemic

By EDITH M. LEDERER - Associated Press

UN survey: Climate, conflict, health top future concerns

By EDITH M. LEDERER - Associated Press

NGOs urge UN to blacklist US, Russia for children’s deaths

By EDITH M. LEDERER - Associated Press

FILE - In this Monday, Jan. 25, 2016 photo, men inspect a house destroyed by a Saudi-led airstrike in Sanaa, Yemen. The missile fired by the Saudi-led coalition killed a judge and his entire family in the Nahda neighborhood, security officials said. The judge was a known Houthi supporter. On Wednesday, April 8, 2020, the Saudi-led coalition fighting the Iranian-backed Houthi rebels in Yemen announced that its forces would begin a cease-fire starting at midnight, in what could pave the way for the first direct peace talks between the two sides that have been at war for more than five years. (AP Photo/Hani Mohammed)

UN envoy expects Yemen cease-fire agreement very soon

By EDITH M. LEDERER - Associated Press

People wearing protective face masks walk along the Orchard Road shopping belt in Singapore, Friday, April 10, 2020. The Singapore government put in place &quot;circuit breaker&quot; measures in the light of a sharp increase of COVID-19 cases in recent days. Under the measures which will last through May 4, people have to stay home and step out only for essential tasks, such as going to work if they are in essential services, buying food and groceries, or for a short bout of exercise. (AP Photo/Yong Teck Lim)

The Latest: Wuhan raises number of COVID-19 deaths by 1,290

By The Associated Press - Associated Press

People carry a giant Libyan flag at the Martyr square during a march commemorating the anniversary of anti-Gadhafi protests in Tripoli, Libya, Tuesday, Feb. 25, 2020. (AP Photo/Felipe Dana)

UN: 51 migrants disembark in Libyan capital amid clashes

By BY SAMY MAGDY - Associated Press

FILE - In this Monday, Dec. 9, 2019 file photo, French President Emmanuel Macron, right, welcomes Russian President Vladimir Putin wave at the Elysee Palace in Paris, France. Spring is not turning out the way Russian President Vladimir Putin might have planned it. A nationwide vote on April 22, 2020 was supposed to finalize sweeping constitutional reforms that would allow him to stay in power until 2036, if he wished. But after the coronavirus spread in Russia, that plebiscite had to be postponed – an action so abrupt that billboards promoting it already had been erected in Moscow and other big cities. (AP Photo/Thibault Camus, File)

France urging top powers to endorse UN virus cease-fire call

By SYLVIE CORBET and EDITH M. LEDERER - Associated Press

President Donald Trump arrives to speak about the coronavirus in the Rose Garden of the White House, Tuesday, April 14, 2020, in Washington. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)

EU blasts Donald Trump’s WHO funding cut, fears it worsens pandemic

By Jamey Keaten and Maria Cheng - Associated Press

U.N. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres addresses his statement, during the opening of the High-Level Segment of the 43rd session of the Human Rights Council, at the European headquarters of the United Nations in Geneva, Switzerland, Monday, Feb. 24, 2020. (Salvatore Di Nolfi/Keystone via AP) ** FILE **

UN chief: world faces misinformation epidemic about virus

By EDITH M. LEDERER - Associated Press

FILE - In this April 8, 2020, file photo supplied by World Vision, a house is damaged from Cyclone Harold on the island of Santo in Vanuatu. The United Nations released $2.5 million from its emergency humanitarian fund on Monday, April 13, 2020, to help thousands of people in the South Pacific island nation of Vanuatu affected by Cyclone Harold and offered support to other hard-hit countries. (World Vision via AP, File)

UN releases $2.5 million to help cyclone-ravaged Vanuatu

By EDITH M. LEDERER - Associated Press

A woman wearing a protective face mask walks next to a house painted with colors of Colombia's flag, during the lockdown ordered by the government in an effort to prevent the spread of the new coronavirus, in Bogota, Colombia, Tuesday, April 14, 2020. (AP Photo/Fernando Vergara)

UN Colombia envoy: ex-combatants making masks amid pandemic

By EDITH M. LEDERER - Associated Press

FILE - In this Sept. 18, 2017, file photo, a man talks to a police officer outside the United Nations building in New York. New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio presides over a city that's known for its skyscrapers but he is no fan of the glass towers that have transformed the Manhattan skyline in recent decades. (AP Photo/Andres Kudacki, File)

United Nations report promotes abortion, LGBT ‘rights’ over human rights

By Emilie Kao and Shea Garrison

United Nations Dumpster Illustration by Greg Groesch/The Washington Times

When COVID-19 pandemic threatened the world, the U.N.’s World Health Organization failed

By Michael Graham

UN Mideast envoys urge warring parties to cease fighting now

By EDITH M. LEDERER - Associated Press

U.N. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres addresses his statement, during the opening of the High-Level Segment of the 43rd session of the Human Rights Council, at the European headquarters of the United Nations in Geneva, Switzerland, Monday, Feb. 24, 2020. (Salvatore Di Nolfi/Keystone via AP)

UN chief warns COVID-19 threatens global peace and security

By EDITH M. LEDERER - Associated Press

FILE - In this Jan. 15, 2020 file photo, men from Bangladesh disembark from the Open Arms rescue vessel at the port of Messina after being rescued on Friday off the Libyan coast, in Sicily, Italy. The European Union announced Tuesday, March 31, 2020 the launch of a new naval mission in the Mediterranean Sea aimed at enforcing the U.N arms embargo on Libya, after Italy blocked a previous operation claiming that the warships attracted migrants. (AP Photo/Santi Palacios, File)

UN agency says 280 migrants stranded in unsafe port in Libya

By ISABEL DEBRE - Associated Press

FILE - In this Feb. 24, 2020, file photo, U.N. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres speaks during an update on the situation regarding the COVID-19 at the World Health Organization (WHO) headquarters in Geneva, Switzerland. Communist guerrillas in the Philippines said Wednesday, March 25, 2020, they would observe a ceasefire in compliance with the U.N. chief Guterres' call for a global halt in armed clashes during the coronavirus pandemic. (Salvatore Di Nolfi/Keystone via AP)

Antonio Guterres, U.N. issues first warning on coronavirus

By Edith M. Lederer - Associated Press

Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, director general of the World Health Organization (WHO), attends a press conference at the European headquarters of the United Nations in Geneva, Switzerland, Friday, May 18, 2018. The WHO Director-General answered questions ahead of the World Health Assembly and following the meeting of an International Health Regulations Emergency Committee on Ebola in the Democratic Republic of the Congo. (Valentin Flauraud/Keystone via AP)

WHO-China ties scrutinized after botched coronavirus response

By Valerie Richardson - The Washington Times