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In this May 21, 2019, photo, staff monitor fishing vessels in real time at a state-of-the-art surveillance center in Bangkok, one of seven in the Asia-Pacific region. The centers help to enforce the Port State Measures Agreement, which aims to help curb illegal, unreported and unregulated, or IUU, fishing. UN officials are urging more governments to join the agreement to help combat IUU fishing, which costs world fisheries more than $20 billion a year. (AP Photo/Elaine Kurtenbach)

UN agencies urge stronger efforts to stop illegal fishing

By ELAINE KURTENBACH - Associated Press

Members of the Security Council vote during a meeting about the escalating tensions between the Ukraine and Russia at United Nations headquarters, Monday, Nov. 26, 2018. Russian border guards opened fire on three Ukrainian vessels in the Kerch Strait near the Russia-occupied Crimean peninsula, raising the prospect of a full-scale military confrontation. The incident comes on the back of a four-and-a-half year long proxy conflict in eastern Ukraine. (AP Photo/Seth Wenig)

U.N. human rights mouth actually calls U.S. abortion laws ‘torture’

By Cheryl K. Chumley - The Washington Times

Then-United States Ambassador to the United Nations Nikki Haley speaks during a security council meeting about the escalating tensions between the Ukraine and Russia at United Nations headquarters, Monday, Nov. 26, 2018. (AP Photo/Seth Wenig)

Nikki Haley: Pro-choice stance in abortion debate meant to ‘divide women’ and is ‘not real feminism’

By Bailey Vogt - The Washington Times

FILE - In this Aug. 24, 2016 file photo, Norwegian diplomat Dag Nylander, left, applauds as Ivan Marquez, chief negotiator of the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia, center, and Humberto de La Calle, head of Colombia's government peace negotiation team, shakes hands after signing a peace agreement, in Havana, Cuba. Nylander is a Latin America specialist who between 2012 and 2016 served as one of two facilitators in negotiations aimed at ending Colombia´s long armed conflict. (AP Photo/Desmond Boylan, File)

Norwegian diplomat pushes Venezuela talks against the odds

By JOSHUA GOODMAN - Associated Press

FILE - In this Friday, March 22, 2019, file photo people pass through a section of the road damaged by Cyclone Idai in Nhamatanda about 50 kilometres from Beira, in Mozambique. Mozambique says it needs $3.2.billion to recover from two powerful tropical cyclones that ripped into the southern African nation this year and left hundreds dead. (AP Photo/Tsvangirayi Mukwazhi, File)

Mozambique seeks $3.2 billion to recover from cyclones

By CARA ANNA - Associated Press

UN moves 149 refugees, asylum seekers from Tripoli to Rome

Associated Press

A woman standing at a balcony looks at a protest against Kosovo police action in the northern Serb-dominated part of ethnically divided town of Mitrovica, Kosovo, Wednesday, May 29, 2019. Russia and Serbia have blamed NATO and the West for an armed raid by Kosovo police in the Serb dominated north of Kosovo when a Russian U.N. employee was among more than two dozen people arrested in what Kosovo says was an anti-organized crime operation. (AP Photo/Visar Kryeziu)

AP Explains: Why do Serbia-Kosovo tensions persist?

By JOVANA GEC - Associated Press

This photo posted on Tuesday, May 28, 2019 and provided by the Syrian Civil Defense White Helmets, which has been authenticated based on its contents and other AP reporting, shows Civil Defense workers inspecting a damaged building after an airstrike by Syrian government forces, in the town of Ariha, in the northwestern province of Idlib, Syria. Syrian activists and rescuers say government warplanes and artillery have pounded the last rebel stronghold in the country, killing over a dozen people. (Syrian Civil Defense White Helmets via AP)

Top US and Russian diplomats discussed ways to end Syria war

By EDITH M. LEDERER - Associated Press

Human rights officer Daniel Collinge, right, speaks as representative of OHCHR in Seoul or Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights in Seoul, Signe Poulsen, left, listens during a press conference in Seoul, South Korea, Tuesday, May 28, 2019. North Koreans working in hundreds of thriving markets that sprung up with the failure of the country's public system for distributing basic goods are often abused and forced to resort to bribery to survive, according to a U.N. report released Tuesday. (AP Photo/Lee Jin-man)

UN reveals rights abuse at thriving markets in North Korea

By HYUNG-JIN KIM - Associated Press

UN agency: Attacks on schools in Afghanistan tripled in 2018

By RAHIM FAIEZ - Associated Press

This photo provided by the Syrian Civil Defense White Helmets, which has been authenticated based on its contents and other AP reporting, shows Civil Defense workers inspecting a damaged building after an airstrike by Syrian government forces, in the town of Ariha, in the northwestern province of Idlib, Syria, Monday, May 27, 2019. Syria's White Helmets say at least six people were killed and 10 remain under rubble following government air raids on a town in the rebel's last stronghold. (Syrian Civil Defense White Helmets via AP)

UN warns more Idlib military action will overwhelm aid needs

By EDITH M. LEDERER - Associated Press

In this Aug. 14, 2017, file photo, Libyan militia commander General Khalifa Hifter meets with Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov in Moscow, Russia. (AP Photo/Ivan Sekretarev, File)

Khalifa Hifter’s forces push toward Libyan capital city’s center

By Samy Magdy - Associated Press

An Afghan Journalist take a photo inside a mosque after a bomb explosion during Friday prayer on the outskirts of Kabul, Afghanistan, Friday, May 24, 2019. According to Kabul police chief's spokesman, Basir Mujahid, the bomb was concealed in the microphone used to deliver the sermon. The prayer leader, Maulvi Samiullah Rayan, was the intended target, the spokesman added. (AP Photo/Rahmat Gul)

UN says Afghan captives held by Taliban subjected to abuse

By RAHIM FAIEZ - Associated Press

Tripoli government forces look on during clashes with forces led by Field Marshal Khalifa Hifter south of the capital Tripoli, Libya on Tuesday, May 21, 2019. The U.N. envoy for Libya warned Tuesday that the oil-rich nation &quot;is on the verge of descending into a civil war&quot; that could divide the country and imperil the security of its neighbors and the wider Mediterranean region. (AP Photo/Hazem Ahmed)

2 Libyan reporters taken by commander Hifter’s forces freed

Associated Press

FILE - In this Monday, Nov. 26, 2018 file photo, three Ukrainian ships are docked near the Kerch after been seized on Sunday, in Kerch, Crimea. A U.N. maritime tribunal has ruled that Russia must release three Ukrainian naval vessels captured by Russia in November and release 24 detained sailors. The Hamburg-based International Tribunal for the Law of the Sea delivered its verdict Saturday, May 25, 2019 on the case Ukraine brought against Russia. (AP Photo, File)

UN court: Russia must free 3 detained Ukraine ships, sailors

By GEIR MOULSON - Associated Press

People inspect the site of an airstrike by Saudi-led coalition forces, in Sanaa, Yemen, Thursday, May, 16, 2019. Yemen's human rights minister says heavy fighting is underway in the country's south as rebel Houthis push to gain more territory from government forces and their allies. The clashes come as the Saudi-led coalition carried out airstrikes on the capital, Sanaa, earlier on Thursday, targeting the Houthis and killing at least three civilians. (AP Photo/Hani Mohammed)

Yemen’s president in letter to UN chief criticizes his envoy

By AHMED AL-HAJ and NOHA ELHENNAWY - Associated Press

Malawi peacekeeper awarded UN medal for bravery posthumously

By EDITH M. LEDERER - Associated Press

Central African Republic massacres leave more than 50 dead

By HIPPOLYTE MARBOUA - Associated Press

Key US official on Mideast peace addresses Security Council

By EDITH M. LEDERER - Associated Press