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Turkish backed Syrian fighters fire a howitzer near the village of Neirab, in Idlib province, Syria, Monday, Feb. 24, 2020. (AP Photo/Ghaith Alsayed)

Syrian army hits civilian sites in relentless Idlib campaign

By BASSEM MROUE - Associated Press

China's ambassador in Geneva ambassador Chen Xu makes a media statement criticising the U.S. for attacking China's candidate to head a United Nations agency that tracks intellectual property in the digital age, in Geneva, Switzerland, Wednesday Feb. 26, 2020. The showdown over leadership of the World Intellectual Property Organization that monitors patents, trademarks and industrial design, amounts to the latest face-off between the United States and China. (AP Photo)

China slams US over ‘attack’ on its candidate to UN body

By JAMEY KEATEN - Associated Press

In this photo taken Saturday, Feb. 1, 2020, desert locusts jump up from the ground and fly away as a cameraman walks past, in Nasuulu Conservancy, northern Kenya. As locusts by the billions descend on parts of Kenya in the worst outbreak in 70 years, small planes are flying low over affected areas to spray pesticides in what experts call the only effective control. (AP Photo/Ben Curtis)

East Africa’s huge locust outbreak now spreads to Congo

By RODNEY MUHUMUZA - Associated Press

United Nations Security Council members, except Russia and China, raise hands in a vote supporting Yemen related sanctions, Tuesday, Feb. 25, 2020 at U.N. headquarters. The Security Council voted to approve a revised British draft resolution extending targeted sanctions in Yemen. (AP Photo/Bebeto Matthews)

UN Security Council approves resolution on Yemen sanctions

By EDITH M. LEDERER - Associated Press

UN chief calls for immediate cease-fire in Syria’s northwest

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In this Feb. 12, 2020 photo, a protester holds a sign that reads in Creole &quot;The people of Martissant are tired of dying from criminals' bullets,&quot; referring to one of the capital's most dangerous neighborhoods, during a march against violence in Port-au-Prince, Haiti. Two years after the departure of U.N. peacekeepers, young bandits with automatic weapons randomly halt cars on the main routes in and out of the capital. (AP Photo/Dieu Nalio Chery)

UN envoy: Haiti’s political crisis sends economy tumbling

By EDITH M. LEDERER - Associated Press

UN report: South Sudan’s rival sides are starving civilians

By CARA ANNA - Associated Press

Libya’s warring parties resume talks in Geneva

By JAMEY KEATEN - Associated Press

FILE - In this May 21, 2019 file photo, Tripoli government forces clash with forces led by Field Marshal Khalifa Hifter, south of the capital Tripoli, Libya. Two Libyan militia commanders and a Syrian war monitor group say Turkey is deploying Syrian extremists to fight in Libya's civil war. These extremists are affiliated with groups like al-Qaida and the Islamic State. They're fighting as mercenaries on behalf of the United Nations-supported government in Libya. The Libyan sources told The Associated Press that Turkey has airlifted more than 2,500 foreign fighters into Tripoli, and that “dozens” are extremist-affiliated. (AP Photo/Hazem Ahmed, File)

Erdogan criticizes EU move to enforce Libyan arms embargo

By SUZAN FRASER and SAMY MAGDY - Associated Press

In this Oct. 1, 2018 file photo, a malnourished boy sits on a hospital bed at the Aslam Health Center, Hajjah, Yemen. Houthi rebels in Yemen have blocked half of the United Nations’ aid delivery programs in the war-torn country — a strong-arm tactic to force the agency to give them greater control over the massive humanitarian campaign, along with a cut of billions of dollars in foreign assistance, according to aid officials and internal documents obtained by The Associated Press. (AP Photo/Hani Mohammed, File)

Yemen’s Houthi rebels impeding UN aid flow, demand a cut

By MAGGIE MICHAEL - Associated Press

Syrian President Bashar Assad listens to Russian President Vladimir Putin during their meeting in Damascus, Syria, Tuesday, Jan. 7, 2020. Putin has traveled to Syria to meet with President Bashar Assad, a key Iranian ally. The rare visit Tuesday comes amid soaring tensions between Iran and the United States following the U.S. drone strike last week that killed a top Iranian general who led forces supporting Assad in Syria's civil war. (Alexei Nikolsky, Sputnik, Kremlin Pool Photo via AP)

Symbolic Aleppo flight comes as civilians suffer in Syria

By ALBERT AJI and ZEINA KARAM - Associated Press

In this Sept. 23, 2018 file photo, men deliver aid donations from donors, in Aslam, Hajjah, Yemen. Houthi rebels in Yemen have blocked half of the United Nations’ aid delivery programs in the war-torn country — a strong-arm tactic to force the agency to give them greater control over the massive humanitarian campaign, along with a cut of billions of dollars in foreign assistance, according to aid officials and internal documents obtained by The Associated Press. (AP Photo/Hammadi Issa, File)

UN: Houthi rebels impeding aid flow in Yemen

By MAGGIE MICHAEL - Associated Press

U.N. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres addresses the Refugee Summit in Islamabad, Pakistan, Monday, Feb. 17, 2020. Guterres is on a three-day visit to meet with country's top leadership and attend an international conference to recognize 40 years of Afghans living as refugees. (AP Photo/B.K. Bangash)

AP Interview: UN chief says new virus poses ‘enormous’ risks

By KATHY GANNON - Associated Press

Stampede kills at least 20 at refugee camp in Niger

By DALATOU MAMANE - Associated Press

Illustration on the U.N. Human Rights Council by Linas Garsys/The Washington Times

United Nations Human Rights Council’s blacklist delegitimizes Israel

By Clifford D. May

Libyan Gen. Khalifa Hifter arrives at the Foreign Ministry to meet the Greek Foreign Minister Nikos Dendias in Athens, Friday, Jan. 17, 2020. The commander of anti-government forces in war-torn Libya has begun meetings in Athens in a bid to counter Turkey's support for his opponents. (AP Photo/Thanassis Stavrakis)

UN-backed government in Libya suspends talks after attack

By JAMEY KEATEN and SAMY MAGDY - Associated Press

In this handout photo provided by the Ukrainian Presidential Press Office, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy speaks to media at a briefing after the Security Council meeting in Kyiv, Ukraine, Tuesday, Feb. 18, 2020. Ukraine and Russia-backed separatists are blaming each other for an outbreak of fighting in the country's rebel-held east. Ukraine's Army Chief of Staff Ruslan Homchak, right, and the Secretary of the National Security and Defense Council Oleksiy Danilov, left, listen. (Ukrainian Presidential Press Office via AP)

Government troops, rebels exchange fire in eastern Ukraine

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Yemeni Shiite fighters stand guard during a protest against U.S. President Donald Trump's Mideast plan in Sanaa, Yemen, Friday, Jan. 31, 2020. (AP Photo/Hani Mohammed)

UN envoy warns `dire’ military situation risks Yemen peace

By EDITH M. LEDERER - Associated Press

'With All Due Respect' (book cover)

BOOK REVIEW: ‘With All Due Respect’

By John R. Coyne Jr.

In this Thursday, Feb. 13, 2020, photo, Afghan refugee Hukam Khan narrates the situation of his country, at Kabobayan refugee camp, in Peshawar, Pakistan. (AP Photo/Muhammad Sajjad)

Afghan refugees tell U.N.: ‘We need peace, land to go home’

By Kathy Gannon - Associated Press