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A man reacts to the camera while driving past a monument depicting the clenched fist of the late Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, who was killed in the U.S. and Israel strike on Feb. 28, and a missile at the Islamic Revolution square in downtown Tehran, Iran, Tuesday, Sept. 15, 2026. (AP Photo/Vahid Salemi)

U.N.-backed experts cite possible U.S. war crimes in Iran strikes

By Jamey Keaten - Associated Press

The Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant, Europe's largest, stands in the background of the shallow Kakhovka Reservoir after the dam collapse, in Energodar, Russian-occupied Ukraine, June 9, 2023. (AP Photo/Kateryna Klochko, File)

Nuclear plant in occupied Ukraine using emergency generators to cool reactors

By Mike Glenn - The Washington Times

Women from Srebrenica watch a live broadcast from the Yugoslav War Crimes Tribunal in The Hague to learn the verdict for Bosnian Serb military chief Ratko Mladic, on the screen, at the memorial cemetery in Potocari near Srebrenica, eastern Bosnia, Tuesday, June 8, 2021.(AP Photo/Darko Bandic, File)

Serbia’s president criticizes U.N. court for not releasing war criminal Mladic to die at home

By Jovana Gec - Associated Press

Tom Fletcher, United Nations Under-Secretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs and Emergency Relief Coordinator, speaks during an interview in Kyiv, Ukraine, Wednesday, Aug. 19, 2026. (AP Photo/Dan Bashakov)

U.N. aid chief warns Russian drones threaten civilians and aid work in Ukraine

By Samya Kullab - Associated Press

Tom Fletcher, United Nations Under-Secretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs and Emergency Relief Coordinator, speaks during an interview in Kyiv, Ukraine, Wednesday, Aug. 19, 2026. (AP Photo/Dan Bashakov)

U.N. aid chief warns Russian drones threaten civilians and aid work in Ukraine

By Samya Kullab - Associated Press

United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres arrives for a news conference after his join meeting with Turkish Cypriot Leader Tufan Erhurman and Cyprus President Nikos Christodoulides at a U.N. compound in the Nicosia airport area, inside the United Nations-controlled buffer zone in the divided capital of Nicosia, Cyprus, Wednesday, July 29, 2026. (AP Photo/Petros Karadjias )

Cyprus’ ethnic split must be resolved to stabilize a tumultuous region, U.N. chief says

By Menelaos Hadjicostis - Associated Press

Residents flee their homes to escape clashes between armed gangs in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, Monday, May 11, 2026. (AP Photo/Odelyn Joseph)

A new wave of gang violence in Haiti displaces hundreds of people

By Evens Sanon - Associated Press

In this photo provided by the North Korean government, its leader Kim Jong-un, center, visits to observe the test launches of missiles at an undisclosed place in North Korea Sunday, April 12, 2026. Independent journalists were not given access to cover the event depicted in this image distributed by the North Korean government. The content of this image is as provided and cannot be independently verified. Korean language watermark on image as provided by source reads: "KCNA" which is the abbreviation for Korean Central News Agency. (Korean Central News Agency/Korea News Service via AP, File)

North Korea launches multiple short-range ballistic missiles toward sea

By Hyung-Jin Kim and Mari Yamaguchi - Associated Press

President Donald Trump departs after speaking with reporters during a news conference in the James Brady Press Briefing Room at the White House, Monday, April 6, 2026, in Washington. (AP Photo/Julia Demaree Nikhinson)

Trump statements about Iran raise questions about international law

Associated Press

The United Nations, Al Jazeera and Hamas illustration by Linas Garsys / The Washington Times

U.N., Al Jazeera: Hamas bedfellows

By Rowan Scarborough - The Washington Times

People protest in the streets of Arusha, Tanzania, on election day Wednesday, Oct. 29, 2025. (AP Photo/str)

Security forces and protesters clash following disputed election in Tanzania; U.N. says 10 dead

Associated Press

FILE - South Sudan's President Salva Kiir, right, and Vice President Riek Machar, left, attend a Holy Mass led by Pope Francis at the John Garang Mausoleum in Juba, South Sudan Sunday, Feb. 5, 2023. (AP Photo/Ben Curtis, File)

South Sudan opposition says peace deal has collapsed after arrest of its leader

By Deng Machol - Associated Press

Afghan women wait to receive food rations distributed by a humanitarian aid group, in Kabul, Afghanistan, on May 23, 2023. Afghan women feel scared or unsafe leaving their home alone because of Taliban decrees and enforcement campaigns on clothing and male guardians, according to a report from the U.N. mission in Afghanistan. (AP Photo/Ebrahim Noroozi, File)

Taliban decrees on clothing and male guardians leave Afghan women scared to go out alone

Associated Press

Sri Lankan municipal workers wait as they prepare to cremate a body of a COVID-19 victim at a cemetery in Colombo, Sri Lanka, Friday, Jan. 22, 2021. Sri Lanka on Friday approved the Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine for COVID-19 amid warnings from doctors that front-line health workers should be quickly inoculated to stop the system from collapsing. (AP Photo/Eranga Jayawardena)

UN group says Sri Lanka virus cremation rule violates rights

By KRISHAN FRANCIS - Associated Press

People from the Shiite Hazara community mourn beside the coffins of coal mine workers who were killed by gunmen near the Machh coal field prior to their funeral prayer in Quetta, Pakistan, Saturday, Jan. 9, 2021. Hundreds of Pakistani Shiites gathered to bury 11 coal miners from the minority Hazara community who were killed by the Islamic State group, ending over a week of protests that sought to highlight the minority community's plight. (AP Photo/Arshad Butt)

Afghan Shiite leader in Pakistan after killings of miners

By KATHY GANNON - Associated Press

FILE - In this Oct. 21, 2020 file photo, Stephanie Williams, Acting Special Representative of the Secretary-General and Head of the United Nations Support Mission in Libya, speaks about the fourth round of the 5+5 Libyan Joint Military Commission, during a press conference at the European headquarters of the U.N. in Geneva, Switzerland. On Monday, Nov. 9, 2020, Libya’s rival factions began much-awaited political peace talks in Tunisia’s capital brokered by the United Nations, with a goal of drawing a roadmap to presidential and parliamentary elections. (Martial Trezzini/Keystone via AP, File)

Libya rivals start UN-led talks in Tunisia on political deal

By BOUAZZA BEN BOUAZZA AND SAMY MAGDY - Associated Press