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The United Nations Security Council meets at U.N. headquarters, Monday, Jan. 20, 2014. Ban Ki-moon told the Security Council on Monday morning that he will have more to say on his invitation for Iran to join this week's peace talks on Syria later in the day.(AP Photo/Craig Ruttle)

U.N. withdraws Iran invitation to Syria talks

By Cara Anna - Associated Press

FILE - In this Thursday, Jan. 2, 2014 file photo, displaced people arrive with what belongings they had time to gather by river barge from Bor, some of the thousands who fled the recent fighting between government and rebel forces in Bor by boat across the White Nile, in the town of Awerial, South Sudan. A military spokesman in South Sudan said Tuesday, Jan. 14, 2014 that 200 people fleeing warfare elsewhere in the country died after a boat that was carrying mostly women and children sank while crossing the Nile River in Upper Nile State. (AP Photo/Ben Curtis, File)

200 fleeing S. Sudan violence die after boat sinks

By ILYA GRIDNEFF and RODNEY MUHUMUZA - Associated Press

Black columns of smoke rise from heavy shelling in the Jobar neighborhood, east of Damascus, Syria, Sunday, Aug. 25, 2013. Syria reached an agreement with the United Nations on Sunday to allow a U.N. team of experts to visit the site of alleged chemical weapons attacks last week outside Damascus, state media said. (AP Photo/Hassan Ammar)

U.N.’s Syria team says vehicle shot at by snipers near Damascus

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UN rejects damage claim for Haiti cholera victims

By EDITH M. LEDERER - Associated Press