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In this May 3, 2019, file photo, Libyans hold a demonstration against military operations by forces loyal to Field Marshal Khalifa Hifter, at Martyrs' Square in 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 Qaeda and the Islamic State. They're fighting as mercenaries on behalf of the United Nations-supported government in Libya. (AP Photo/Hazem Ahmed, File)

Turkey deploys extremists to Libya, local militias say

By Sam Magdy - Associated Press

Proposed UN resolution would reject US Mideast peace plan

By EDITH M. LEDERER - Associated Press

FILE - In this July 3, 2019 file photo, debris covers the ground and an emergency vehicle after an airstrike at a detention center in Tajoura, east of Tripoli in Libya. The United Nations revealed on Monday, Jan. 27, 2020 new details about an airstrike that smashed into a migrant detention center in Libya, killing at least 50 people. The July attack, which ranked among the deadliest assaults on civilians since the start of Libya’s civil war, sparked international condemnation and accusations of war crimes. (AP Photo/Hazem Ahmed, File)

UN envoy hopes Libya talks will stem influx of foreign arms

By JAMEY KEATEN - Associated Press

Protesters hold placards reads &quot;Close the border, say no to China&quot; during a protest at a mall in Hong Kong, Tuesday, Feb. 4, 2020. Hong Kong on Tuesday reported its first death from a new virus, a man who had traveled from the mainland city of Wuhan that has been the epicenter of the outbreak. (AP Photo/Vincent Yu)

Japan quarantines cruise ship as toll of new virus grows

By Foster Klug and Mari Yamaguchi - Associated Press

United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres attends a session during the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, Thursday, Jan. 23, 2020. The 50th annual meeting of the forum is taking place in Davos from Jan. 21 until Jan. 24, 2020 (AP Photo/Markus Schreiber)

UN chief warns ‘a wind of madness is sweeping the globe’

By EDITH M. LEDERER - Associated Press

Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, Director General of the World Health Organization (WHO), waits prior the opening of the 146th session of the World Health Organization Executive Board, at the World Health Organization (WHO) headquarters in Geneva, Switzerland, Monday, Feb. 3, 2020. (Salvatore Di Nolfi/Keystone via AP)

UN health agency tackles misinformation over virus outbreak

By JAMEY KEATEN - Associated Press

A Yemeni boy waves from inside a bus before boarding a United Nations plane at Sanaa International airport, Yemen, Monday, Feb. 3, 2020. The United Nations medical relief flight carrying patients from Yemen's rebel-held capital was the first in over three years. The U.N. said eight patients and their families were flown to Egypt and Jordan to receive “life-saving specialized care not available in Yemen.&quot; (AP Photo/Hani Mohammed)

1st medical relief flight in 3 years departs Yemen’s capital

By AHMED AL-HAJ - Associated Press

Libyan Gen. Khalifa Hifter joins a meeting with 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)

Libya says oil shutdown losses have risen to $560 million

By NOHA ELHENNAWY - Associated Press

Swarms of desert locusts fly up into the air from crops in Katitika village, Kitui county, Kenya Friday, Jan. 24, 2020. Desert locusts have swarmed into Kenya by the hundreds of millions from Somalia and Ethiopia, countries that haven't seen such numbers in a quarter-century, destroying farmland and threatening an already vulnerable region. (AP Photo/Ben Curtis)

UN: Africa’s locust outbreak needs $76M ‘by, actually, now’

By CARA ANNA - Associated Press

UN agency halts operations at troubled Libya migrant center

By ISABEL DEBRE - Associated Press

UN envoy: Countries backing Libya peace fuel conflict

By EDITH M. LEDERER - Associated Press

Israeli border police arrests a Palestinian ahead of a protest against Middle East peace plan announced Tuesday by US President Donald Trump, which strongly favors Israel, in Jerusalem, Wednesday, Jan 29, 2020. (AP Photo/Mahmoud Illean)

Angry Palestinians face dilemma in responding to Trump plan

By MOHAMMED DARAGHMEH and JOSEPH KRAUSS - Associated Press

Syrian flee the advance of the government forces in the province of Idlib, Syria, towards the Turkish border, Wednesday, Jan. 29, 2020. Syrian government forces captured one of the largest and most strategic rebel-held towns in the country's northwest, the Syrian military and opposition activists said Wednesday, part of a Russian-backed military assault that has displaced hundreds of thousands of people fleeing to safer areas. (AP Photo/Ghaith Alsayed)

UN council members point fingers over Syria aid crossings

By JENNIFER PELTZ - Associated Press

FILE - In this April 9, 2019, file photo Michelle Bachelet, United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights, attends a press conference at the Cultural Center of Spain, in Mexico City. An internal confidential document from the United Nations, leaked to The New Humanitarian and seen by The Associated Press, says that dozens of servers were “compromised” at offices in Geneva and Vienna.Those include the U.N. human rights office, which has often been a lightning rod of criticism from autocratic governments for its calling-out of rights abuses. (AP Photo/Marco Ugarte, File)

Leaked report shows United Nations suffered hack

By JAMEY KEATEN and FRANK BAJAK - Associated Press

UN envoy: Stop `alarming’ military escalation in Yemen

By EDITH M. LEDERER - Associated Press

Palestinian hold a poster showing U.S. President Donald Trump as they protest the American peace plan in Bethlehem, Monday, Jan. 27, 2020. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu arrived in Washington Sunday night vowing to &quot;make history&quot; at a planned meeting with President Donald Trump for the unveiling of the U.S. administration's much-anticipated plan to resolve the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. (AP Photo/Mahmoud Illean)

The Latest: Chief: UN committed to Israel-Palestinian peace

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UN discussing resolution to endorse plan for peace in Libya

By EDITH M. LEDERER - Associated Press

FILE - In this July 3, 2019 file photo, debris covers the ground and an emergency vehicle after an airstrike at a detention center in Tajoura, east of Tripoli in Libya. The United Nations revealed on Monday, Jan. 27, 2020 new details about an airstrike that smashed into a migrant detention center in Libya, killing at least 50 people. The July attack, which ranked among the deadliest assaults on civilians since the start of Libya’s civil war, sparked international condemnation and accusations of war crimes. (AP Photo/Hazem Ahmed, File)

UN report: Chilling details of Libya migrant center strike

By ISABEL DEBRE - Associated Press

Downing of jet in Iran reveals Islamic Republic’s wider woes

By JON GAMBRELL - Associated Press

German Chancellor Angela Merkel, front second left, waits for the arrival of leaders prior to a group photo at a conference on Libya at the chancellery in Berlin, Germany, Sunday, Jan. 19, 2020. Front row left to right, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, French President Emmanuel Macron, and United Nations Secretary General Antonio Guterres. Back row left to right, European Council President Charles Michel, German Foreign Minister Heiko Maas, U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo and Chinese State Councilor Yang Jiechi. (AP Photo/Michael Sohn)

Fighting rages as Libya force pushes toward key western city

By SAMY MAGDY - Associated Press