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Qu Dongyu from China, one of the candidates for the Director-General position of the FAO (UN Food and Agriculture Organization), arrives to address a plenary meeting of the 41st Session of the Conference, at the FAO headquarters in Rome, Saturday, June 22, 2019. The new FAO Director-General will be voted on Sunday. (AP Photo/Andrew Medichini)

Chinese agricultural official picked to lead UN food agency

FILE - In this April 4, 2018 file photo, Kelly Knight Craft, U.S. Ambassador to Canada, speaks about NAFTA and Canada-US relations at an Empire Club meeting in Toronto. Craft is President Donald Trump's nominee to be the next U.S. envoy to the United Nations. (Chris Donovan/The Canadian Press via AP)

Blurred lines: Trump’s UN choice and her coal magnate spouse

In this picture released on April 29, 2019, by the official website of the office of the Iranian supreme leader, Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei reads part of a book while visiting Tehran's book fair in Tehran, Iran. President Donald Trump signed an executive order on Monday, June 24, 2019, targeting Iran's supreme leader and his associates with financial sanctions, the latest action the U.S. has taken to discourage Tehran from developing nuclear weapons and supporting militant groups. (Office of the Iranian Supreme Leader via AP)

Iran says talks with US impossible; US says it wants talks

Qu Dongyu from China, one of the candidates for the Director-General position of the FAO (UN Food and Agriculture Organization), arrives to address a plenary meeting of the 41st Session of the Conference, at the FAO headquarters in Rome, Saturday, June 22, 2019. The new FAO Director-General will be voted on Sunday. (AP Photo/Andrew Medichini)

China’s Qu Dongyu elected as new FAO general director

Tomas Ojea Quintana, the United Nations special rapporteur on the situation of human rights in North Korea, listens to a question during a press conference in Seoul, South Korea, Friday, June 21, 2019. Quintana said there are signs the country and China are strengthening their efforts to track down people who have escaped from the North. (AP Photo/Ahn Young-joon)

UN investigator says North Korea cracking down on escapes

UN human rights chief appeals for dialogue in Venezuela

In this May 30, 2019, photo, a pig is seen in a pen in My Duc district, Hanoi, Vietnam. Asian nations are scrambling to contain the spread of the highly contagious African swine fever with Vietnam culling 2.5 million pigs and China reporting more than a million dead in an unprecedentedly huge epidemic governments fear have gone out of control. (AP Photo/Hieu Dinh)

Millions of pigs culled as swine fever spreads through Asia

In this undated photo provided on Saturday, June 1, 2019, by the North Korean government, North Korean leader Kim Jong-un, center, visits the February 8 General Machine Factory in Chagang Province, North Korea. 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)

Aid groups caught in crossfire of sanctions against North Korea

Key moments in relations between North Korea, China

In this photo taken Tuesday, May 28, 2019, LGBT refugee Nina Muregwa, 17, left, from Burundi, who says she left Burundi after her lover's mother threatened to kill her, sits with others in the house where they take shelter in a low-income neighborhood of the capital Nairobi, Kenya. LGBT refugees allege they have been harassed by police in recent weeks in Kenya, which is a rare regional haven for the gay community yet maintains that gay sex is illegal. (AP Photo/Khalil Senosi)

LGBT refugees allege harassment in Kenya, a rare safe haven

FILE - In this April 4, 2018 file photo, Kelly Knight Craft, U.S. Ambassador to Canada, speaks about NAFTA and Canada-US relations at an Empire Club meeting in Toronto. Craft is President Donald Trump's nominee to be the next U.S. envoy to the United Nations. (Chris Donovan/The Canadian Press via AP)

Trump’s UN envoy nominee defends climate record

About 160 dead after days of Congo intercommunal violence

Russia, China block UN from saying NKorea violated sanctions

People watch a TV news program reporting about Chinese President Xi Jinping's state visit to North Korea with file footage of Xi and North Korean leader Kim Jong Un at the Seoul Railway Station in Seoul, South Korea, Tuesday, June 18, 2019. (AP Photo/Lee Jin-man)

China, North Korea look to strengthen ties amid US disputes

Britain, Italy make joint bid to host 2020 UN climate talks

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The U.N. says Yemen is facing the world's worst humanitarian crisis.

Sweden says it could host Yemen's warring sides for talks →

Griffiths on Wednesday welcomed the U.S. calls for immediate resumption of the political process and said the United Nations remains committed "to bring the Yemeni parties to the negotiations table within a month."

At turning point, US urges Yemen cease-fire, political talks →

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