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Skiing may not spread coronavirus but slopes still risky, says U.N.

By Associated Press

The World Health Organization’s emergencies chief said the risk of catching COVID-19 while skiing is likely minimal. The agency warned that it's the activities around skiing that are risky for disease spread.

At mostly-virtual U.N. conference E.U., other donors step up with funds to help Afghanistan

By Jamey Keaten, Associated Press

The European Union, the United States and other donors pledged billions in new funding for Afghanistan over the next four years, at the first pledging conference of its kind for the troubled and poor country since 2016.

U.N. prepares for up to 200,000 Ethiopian refugees in Sudan

By Jamey Keaten, Cara Anna, Associated Press

The United Nations refugee agency says about 32,000 people have fled Ethiopia's embattled Tigray region into neighboring Sudan, and it is preparing to take in up to 200,000 in the next six months if necessary.

In multiple countries, alarm over hunger crisis rings louder

By Tameen Akhgar. Associated Press and Samy Magdy, Eissa Ahmed, Associated Press

Dire U.N. warnings of a growing hunger crisis are becoming reality in multiple countries. The coronavirus pandemic is adding a further burden on families already struggling to feed themselves amid collapsing economies and war.

74 migrants drown after boat breaks down off Libya coast, U.N. says

By Noha Elhennawy, Associated Press

At least 74 migrants drowned after their Europe-bound ship capsized off the coast of Libya on Thursday, the U.N. migration agency said, in the latest in a series of at least eight shipwrecks in the Central Mediterranean since last month.

Libya’s rivals urge U.N. Security Council to back cease-fire

By Samy Magdy, Associated Press

Libya’s rivals wrapped up their military talks with a call to the U.N. Security Council to adopt a binding resolution to implement a cease-fire deal inked last month, the U.N. said.

Fighting Libyan factions sign countrywide cease-fire

By Associated Press

The breakthrough, which among other things orders foreign mercenaries out of the country within three months, sets the stage for political talks in November to find a lasting solution.

U.S. urges countries to withdraw from U.N. treaty that would ban nuclear weapons

By Edith M. Lederer, Associated Press

Beatrice Fihn, head of the 2017 Nobel Peace Prize-winning International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons, said the U.S. action shows the treaty will soon become reality.

UN arms embargoes on Iran expire despite US objections

By Nasser Karimi, Associated Press

A decade-long U.N. arms embargo on Iran that barred it from purchasing foreign weapons like tanks and fighter jets expired Sunday as planned under its nuclear deal with world powers, despite objections from the United States, which insists the ban…

25 years after U.N. women’s meeting, equality remains distant

By Edith M. Lederer, Associated Press

Twenty-five years ago, the world's nations came together to make sure that half of Earth's population gained the rights, power and status of the other half. It hasn't happened.