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Embassy Row: ‘Stain’ on the U.N.

By James Morrison - The Washington Times

Islands want UN to see climate as security threat

By EDITH M. LEDERER - Associated Press

Islands want UN to see climate as security threat

By EDITH M. LEDERER - Associated Press

** FILE ** Women in Tokyo read copies of an extra edition of a Japanese newspaper reporting North Korea's nuclear test on Tuesday, Feb. 12, 2013. (AP Photo/Itsuo Inouye)

Obama calls North Korean nuclear test ‘highly provocative’

By Ashish Kumar Sen - The Washington Times

WORLD BRIEFS: New EU talks with Turkey urged

By THE WASHINGTON TIMES

** FILE ** In this Thursday, Sept. 22, 2011, file photo, Iran's President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad addresses the 66th session of the United Nations General Assembly. (AP Photo/Richard Drew, File)

Nuke talk questions await Iranian president at U.N.

By Brian Murphy - Associated Press

Lakhdar Brahimi (Associated Press)

Latest U.N. envoy for Syria not optimistic

By Greg Keller - Associated Press

Lakhdar Brahimi, a former Algerian foreign affairs minister who was named Friday as the new U.N. envoy for Syria, gives an interview to the Associated Press in Paris on Sunday, Aug. 19, 2012. (AP Photo/Jacques Brinon)

U.N. special envoy seeks unified voice on Syria

By Greg Keller - Associated Press

A man slides down a hill after a rare snowfall in Johannesburg on Tuesday sent people pouring out of their offices. The South African Weather Service said snow last fell in the city in June 2007. (Associated Press)

Briefly: U.N. chief calls for sanctions against Islamists

By THE WASHINGTON TIMES

** FILE ** Syrian President Bashar Assad delivers a speech on Sunday, June 3, 2012, at the parliament in Damascus, Syria. (Associated Press/SANA)

U.N. General Assembly denounces Syrian crackdown

By Peter James Spielmann - Associated Press

**FILE** Kofi Annan, Joint Special Envoy of the United Nations and the Arab League for Syria, speaks June 30, 2012, during a news conference at the U.N. headquarters in Geneva. (Associated Press/Keystone)

Annan quits as Syrian envoy

By Stewart Stogel - The Washington Times

United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon speaks about the situation in Syria during a news conference Thursday at the European headquarters of the United Nations in Geneva. (Associated Press)

U.N. chief urges council action after new attack

By Edith M. Lederer - Associated Press

This citizen journalism image provided by Shaam News Network purportedly shows the bodies of Syrian children in Mazraat al-Qubair on the outskirts of Hama, Syria, on June 7, 2012. Syria denied as "absolutely baseless" claims by opposition groups about a new massacre in the central Hama province in which government forces allegedly killed dozens of people, including women and children. (Associated Press/Shaam News Network)

U.N. monitors shot at near site of Syrian killings

By Edith M. Lederer and Zeina Karam - Associated Press

In this photo provided by the Syrian official news agency SANA, Syrian President Bashar Assad (right) meets May 29, 2012, with Kofi Annan, the U.N.-Arab League joint special envoy for Syria, in Damascus, Syria. (Associated Press/SANA)

U.N. rights body to hold session on Syrian massacre

Associated Press

This citizen journalism image taken Saturday purports to show casualties of the assault on villages in Houla, Syria, that left more than 90 people dead. The Syrian government denied responsibility and said that its troops were targeted as well. (Shaam News Network via Associated Press)

Syria denies responsibility in attacks that killed 108

By Albert Aji and Bassem Mroue - Associated Press

This image made from video made available by Syrian TV shows U.N. observer team leader Col. Ahmed Himmiche, left, meeting with the governor of Homs, Syria, Saturday, April 21, 2012. (AP Photo/Syria TV via AP video) TV OUT SYRIA OUT

U.N. monitors visit Syria opposition stronghold

By Karin Laub - Associated Press

** FILE ** A North Korean soldier stands in front of the country's Unha-3 rocket, which was launched unsuccessfully on Friday, April 13, 2012. (AP Photo/David Guttenfelder)

U.N. strongly condemns N. Korea rocket launch

By Edith M. Lederer - Associated Press

U.N. observers, led by Moroccan Col. Ahmed Himmiche (left), leave the Sheraton Hotel in Damascus, Syria, on April 16, 2012. (Associated Press)

U.N.’s Ban: Syria must allow observers full access

By Zeina Karam - Associated Press

Smoke billows from the purported shelling of Homs, Syria, in an image from amateur video released by the Shaam News Network and accessed on Sunday, April 15, 2012. (AP Photo/Shaam News Network via AP video)

Syrian truce eroding as first U.N. monitors head to Damascus

By Karin Laub - Associated Press

Security Council mulls response to N. Korea’s rocket launch

By Shaun Waterman - The Washington Times