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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. ON Saturday, Jan. 18, 2020, the National Oil Corporation in Libya says that a decision by east-based forces to choke off oil exports from its territory has threatened to throttle much of the country’s oil production. Powerful tribal groups loyal to Gen. Khalifa Hifter, whose forces control much of eastern Libya, seized several large export terminals along the eastern coast as well as southern oil fields in a challenge to the rival U.N.-backed government based in Tripoli, which collects revenues from oil production. The move has ratcheted up tensions ahead of an international peace summit to end the civil war. (AP Photo/Hussein Malla, File)

Libya says oil shutdown caused over $255 million in losses

By BY SAMY MAGDY - Associated Press

A farmer's daughter waves her shawl in the air to try to chase away swarms of desert locusts from her 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)

‘This is huge’: Locust swarms in Africa are worst in decades

By BEN CURTIS and JOSPHAT KASIRE and CARA ANNA - Associated Press

FILE - In this May 9, 2019, file photo Jeff Bezos speaks at an event before unveiling Blue Origin's Blue Moon lunar lander in Washington. Two U.N. experts this week called for the U.S. to investigate a likely hack of Bezos' phone that could have involved Saudi Arabian Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman. A commissioned forensic report found with “medium to high confidence” that Bezos' phone was compromised by a video MP4 file he received from the prince in May 2018. (AP Photo/Patrick Semansky, File)

The big lesson from the Bezos hack: Anyone can be a target

By MATT O'BRIEN - Associated Press

UN alarm at education crisis: 258 million kids not in school

By EDITH M. LEDERER - Associated Press

German Chancellor Angela Merkel, right, welcomes Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan before the conference on Libya at the Chancellery in Berlin, Sunday, Jan. 19, 2020. German Chancellor Angela Merkel hosts the one-day conference of world powers in Berlin to discuss efforts to broker peace in Libya.(Turkish Presidency Press Service via AP, Pool)

Erdogan urges international pressure on Libya’s Hifter

By AYSE WIETING and SUZAN FRASER - Associated Press

Solomon Islands' Foreign Minister Jeremiah Manele addresses the 74th session of the United Nations General Assembly at U.N. headquarters Friday, Sept. 27, 2019, in New York. (AP Photo/Kevin Hagen).

EDITORIAL: Trading goods, not fire

By THE WASHINGTON TIMES

In this photo taken Thursday, Jan. 16, 2020, a Samburu boy uses a wooden stick to try to swat a swarm of desert locusts filling the air, as he herds his camel near the village of Sissia, in Samburu county, Kenya. The most serious outbreak of desert locusts in 25 years is spreading across East Africa and posing an unprecedented threat to food security in some of the world's most vulnerable countries, authorities say, with unusual climate conditions partly to blame. (AP Photo/Patrick Ngugi)

AP Explains: How climate change feeds Africa locust invasion

By CARA ANNA - Associated Press

In this Dec. 11, 2019, file photo, Myanmar's leader Aung San Suu Kyi addresses judges of the International Court of Justice for the second day of three days of hearings in The Hague, Netherlands. The United Nations' highest court is set to rule Thursday, Jan. 23, 2020, on whether to order Myanmar to halt what has been described as a genocidal campaign against the country's Rohingya Muslim minority. The International Court of Justice decision comes in a case brought by the African nation of Gambia on behalf of an organization of Muslim nations that accuses Myanmar of genocide in its crackdown on the Rohingya. (AP Photo/Peter Dejong, File)

Rohingya hail U.N. ruling ordering Myanmar to prevent genocide

By Mike Corder - Associated Press

FILE - In this Oct. 14, 2019 file photo, Saudi Arabia's Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman speaks to Russian President Vladimir Putin during the talks in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. United Nations experts Wednesday, Jan. 22, 2020 called for an &quot;immediate investigation&quot; by the United States and others into information they received that suggests that Jeff Bezos' phone was hacked after receiving a file sent from Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman's WhatsApp account. (AP Photo/Alexander Zemlianichenko, Pool)

What we know, and don’t, about the alleged Bezos phone hack

By FRANK BAJAK - Associated Press

German Foreign Minister Heiko Maas, second left, German Chancellor Angela Merkel, center, and Antonio Guterres, second right, Secretary-General of the United Nations, attend a conference on Libya at the chancellery in Berlin, Germany, Sunday, Jan. 19, 2020. (Kay Nietfeld/DPA via AP, Pool)

Libya’s neighbors, global envoys seek solutions to conflict

By AOMAR OUALI - Associated Press

FILE - In this Dec. 14, 2017, file photo, Jeff Bezos attends the premiere of &quot;The Post&quot; at The Newseum in Washington. United Nations experts on Wednesday, Jan. 22, 2020 have called for &quot;immediate investigation&quot; by the United States into information they received that suggests that Jeff Bezos' phone was hacked after receiving a file sent from Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman's WhatsApp account. (Photo by Brent N. Clarke/Invision/AP, File)

Saudi crown prince’s WhatsApp linked to Bezos phone hack

By AYA BATRAWY - Associated Press

Key events leading to statement on Jeff Bezos phone hack

Associated Press

UN welcomes commitments toward Libya peace, urges cease-fire

By EDITH M. LEDERER - Associated Press

In this Feb. 26, 2011 file photo, a Libyan oil worker, works at a refinery inside the Brega oil complex, in Brega, eastern Libya. On Sunday, Jan. 19, 2020, Libya’s National Oil Corporation said that guards under the command of Khalifa Hifter’s forces shut down two key oil fields in the country’s southwestern desert, following the earlier closure of all eastern export terminals.(AP Photo/Hussein Malla, File)

Libyan oil fields remain shut, testing peace summit

By RAMI MUSA and ISABEL DEBRE - Associated Press

A resident walks past a cross during a memorial service honoring the victims of the 2010 earthquake, at Titanyen, a mass burial site north of Port-au-Prince, Haiti, Sunday, Jan. 12, 2020. Sunday marks the 10th anniversary of the devastating 7.0 magnitude earthquake that destroyed an estimated 100,000 homes across the capital and southern Haiti, including some of the country's most iconic structures. (AP Photo/Dieu Nalio Chery)

UN chief urges Haitians to resist escalation at quake event

By EDITH M. LEDERER - Associated Press

Libyan Gen. Khalifa Hifter, center, shakes hands with the Greek Foreign Minister Nikos Dendias, left, as they surrounded by security in Athens, Thursday, Jan. 16, 2019. Greece will block any European peace deal on Libya unless an agreement between the internationally-recognized government in Tripoli and Turkey on maritime borders is scrapped, Greek Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis warned Thursday. (AP Photo/Michael Varaklas)

Libya’s rival military commander seeks support in Greece

By ELENA BECATOROS - Associated Press

German Foreign Minister Heiko Maas, left, and Jordan's Foreign Minister Ayman Safadi deliver statements to the press, in Amman, Jordan, Monday, June 13, 2020. (AP Photo/Raad Adayleh)

Merkel upbeat over cease-fire pledge ahead of Libya meeting

By GEIR MOULSON - Associated Press

In this July 16, 2019, file photo, Health and Human Services Secretary Alex Azar pauses while speaking during a Cabinet meeting at the White House, in Washington. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon, File)

Alex Azar, HHS secretary, says ‘no international right to abortion’

By Christopher Vondracek - The Washington Times

UN: Global economic growth in 2019 was lowest of the decade

By EDITH M. LEDERER - Associated Press

UN official warns Yemen could face brink of famine again

By EDITH M. LEDERER - Associated Press